Jeff Flake
Jeff Flake
Jeffry Lane "Jeff" Flakeis an American politician and member of the Republican Party who has served as the junior United States Senator from Arizona since 2013...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 December 1962
CountryUnited States of America
filled-out lobbyists form
Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.
government
Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel.
thinking trying stubborn
For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.
cutting republican taxes
There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans.
country united-states debate
The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.
country race bars
Senator Jon Kyl has given all of the eventual candidates in this race an excellent model of how to best serve Arizona and the country. He's set the bar extremely high, and I'll do my best to meet that standard.
september-11 defense-spending homeland-security
After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.
politics policy
Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.
brought home kids leave neighbors parents position sending
You'd be sending home parents who brought kids here when they were 2. Do you leave the kids here with the neighbors for 10 years? That's not a very conservative position in my view.
believed create created federal given hurricane katrina priorities spending
I never believed that it was responsible to create this new entitlement, but it's even more irresponsible now, given that Hurricane Katrina has created new spending priorities for the federal government,