Paul made this announcement on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, though a Kentucky news site first broke the news. In 1995, Paul was certified to practice by the American Board of Ophthalmology (ABO). [309] Paul has also supported states' rights-focused cannabis legislation, introducing the RohrabacherFarr amendment in 2014,[310] cosponsoring the STATES Act in 2018,[311] and introducing other amendments. [161][162], Paul was one of 22 senators to sign a letter[163] to President Donald Trump urging him to have the United States withdraw from the Paris Agreement in May 2017. In a phone interview with Breitbart News on July 19, 2013, Paul said, "I basically say he is bailing them out over my dead body because we don't have any money in Washington." According to The Guardian, Paul has received over $250,000 from oil, gas and coal interests since 2012. There is little question that Cruz is trying to position himself for a 2024 presidential run. Paul was rebuked by committee chairman Patty Murray, as well as multiple House and Senate Democrats, who were to vote on the Equality Act that same day. [303][304], On May 28, 2021, Paul voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the 2021 United States Capitol attack. [342], In May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Paul said that stay-at-home orders amounted to "dictatorship" by Kentucky's Democratic governor Andy Beshear. [280] In July 2018, Paul was among only two senators to vote against a Senate motion supporting NATO. In 1999, he incorporated the National Board of Ophthalmology (NBO) to offer an alternative certification system, at a cost substantially lower than that of the ABO. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rand Paul (R-KY), Lindsey [58] Paul's father said, "Should Senator Bunning decide not to run, I think Rand would make a great U.S. [19] In his teenage years, Paul studied the Austrian economists that his father respected, as well as the writings of Objectivist philosopher Ayn Rand. Rand Paul is the only Senator trying to reduce spending, & 1 of only 2 in Congress doing so. vs. The average voter generally is emotional, has short term memory loss, and is easily swayed by charisma and heavy proposals. 2011. [172] Paul spoke with President Trump over the phone on March 6, Paul telling him that the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act should be two separate bills. ", "That Time Rand Paul Told Alex Jones He Wouldn't Join The Bilderberg Group Out Of Fear Of Being Shamed By Him", "Senator Rand Paul's Amazingly Frank Interview With Alex Jones", "How Would President Rand Paul Handle the Media, Anyway? "[45] He also said there was no evidence the surveillance of phone metadata had stopped terrorism. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a potential 2024 Republican presidential contender, argues that "its time to stop election fraud" in a mailer sent by the Protect [360], Paul is married to Kelley Paul (ne Ashby), a freelance writer. Insiders". [10] Paul went to Brazoswood High School and was on the swimming team and played defensive back on the football team. Rand Paul as VP for either eliminates the need for a libertarian nominee or third-party candidate," the adviser said. Paul, Booker, & Gillibrand Announce CARERS Act", "Senate Could Follow House In Blocking DEA From Targeting Medical Marijuana", "FAQ: What the STATES Act Would Do, and Why It's a Game-Changer", "Rand Paul, Senate Torch-Bearer on Pot Reform, Wants Colleagues on Record", "Rand Paul Pushes Marijuana Amendments On Funding Bill", "Rand Paul backs effort to bring banking to legal marijuana businesses", "Ky voices: Rand Paul: Legalize hemp to aid Ky. economy", "Hemp Growing Finds Allies of a New Stripe in Kentucky", "Sens. [318][319], In 2022, Paul introduced the Right to Try Clarification Act to clarify that the Right to Try Act allows terminally ill patients to use Schedule I drugs for which a Phase I clinical trial has been completed. It's been a long time since that has happened", "Senators consider vote to block United States arms deal to Saudi Arabia report", "Rand Paul and Most Senate Democrats Almost Blocked Trump's Saudi Arms Deal", "Sen. Rand Paul On Yemen And U.S. Foreign Interventions", "Rand Paul urges Trump not to open State Department to neocons", "Mike Pompeo approved out of committee following Rand Paul flipping his vote", "Sen. Rand Paul opposes confirming Trump's secretary of state and CIA nominees", "Mike Pompeo Said Congress Doesn't Need to Approve War With Iran. [18] In 1984, Paul took a semester off to aid his father's primary challenge to Republican Senate candidate Phil Gramm. [282], On May 12, 2022, Paul stopped a vote on a $40 billion spending bill for aid to Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion, objecting that it would be the second spending bill for this purpose, and is 3 times larger than the first. [277] In July 2018, shortly after 12 Russian intelligence officers have been charged with hacking and leaking emails of senior Democrats, he described the Special Counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election as a "witch hunt on the president". [108], In June 2012, Paul endorsed Mitt Romney after it became apparent that he would be the Republican nominee for the 2012 presidential election. The announcement left only Paul and Secretary of State Trey Grayson as the remaining candidates for the Republican nomination,[63] with Paul announcing on August 5, 2009, that he would officially run for the U.S. Senate as a Republican. Paul felt this was unfair and campaigned to have all ophthalmologists recertify every ten years. [361] They reside in Bowling Green, Kentucky. GET THE INSIDE SCOOP FIRST WITH WASHINGTON SECRETS. 2020 Democrats Aren't Having It", "Rand Paul wants Congress involved in Iran decision, says war would be 'a bigger mistake' than Iraq", "Rand Paul Slams Trump Over Airstrike: 'If You Don't Want Perpetual War, You Don't Keep Sending More Targets', "US bill on Russia sanctions prompts German, Austrian outcry", "Rand Paul on Russia indictments: We should focus on protecting elections instead of 'witch hunt on the president', "Rand Paul blocks Sanders's Russia resolution, calls it 'crazy hatred' against Trump", "Burr holds firm despite GOP anger over Don Jr. subpoena", "Senate votes to support NATO ahead of Trump summit", "Senate rejects Paul proposal on withdrawing troops from Afghanistan", "Senator Rand Paul single-handedly holds up $40bn US aid for Ukraine", "Tulsi Gabbard, Rand Paul Placed on List of Russian Propagandists by Ukraine", "Clare Daly responds after Ukraine puts her on list of people who allegedly promote Russian propaganda", "Paul: Keep pushing criminal justice reform in Ky", "GOP Sen. Rand Paul singles out McConnell on criminal justice bill, calls for public pressure on majority leader", "Bipartisan Legislation To Give Judges More Flexibility For Federal Sentences Introduced", "U.S. He recreated the board in 2005, but it was again dissolved in 2011. [231] He is generally described as a libertarian, a term he both embraced[232] and rejected[233] during his first Senate campaign. He earned an M.D. Paul describes himself as a constitutional conservative and supporter of the Tea Party movement. [159] On April 7, McCain said he did not pay attention to any of Paul's rhetoric and that the latter did not have "any real influence" in the United States Senate. [173] On March 12, Paul accused House Speaker Paul Ryan of being misleading in portraying supporters of the American Health Care Act of 2017 as not being negotiable,[174] and three days later, March 15, furthered that Ryan was "selling" President Trump "a bill of goods" that he had not explained fully to the president. [247], On September 5, 2017, the Trump administration announced the intended rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. [235][236][237][238] Ideologically, the American Conservative Union has given Paul a lifetime conservative rating of 96% and the Conservative Review gave him a 92% score. Prosecutors felt the downward departure from their request for a 21-month sentence was too great, but the judge said Boucher's eight years in the military, being forced to sell his home to pay a $580,000 judgment assessed by the state court against him in the civil case brought by Paul, and his completed community service mitigated against any additional prison time. "[349] He later challenged Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on the Biden administration's vaccine mandates by arguing that they are not needed for people who have been previously infected. degree in 1988 and completed his residency in 1993. At the beginning of 2009, there was movement by political supporters of his father to draft Paul in a bid to replace beleaguered Republican Kentucky senator Jim Bunning. [328] Paul gave a speech at the University of California, Berkeley in 2014 titled "The N.S.A. In May 2019, Paul opposed the decision of the Senate Intelligence committee, chaired by Republican Senator Richard Burr, to subpoena Donald Trump Jr., a close friend of Paul's, to testify in front of Congress about his involvement with Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign. [31] By Paul's estimate, about 50 or 60 doctors were certified by the NBO. [377], Paul announced on March 22, 2020, that he had tested positive for COVID-19 amid the ongoing pandemic of the disease. [269], Paul, like his father, has also been a critic of neoconservatism,[270] and urged Trump to not choose prominent neoconservative Elliott Abrams to serve as Deputy Secretary of State. Since neither is likely to pick the other as a running mate, the adviser offered libertarian Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) as a good fit. He favors a flat tax rate of 14.5% for individuals and business, while eliminating the FICA payroll taxes, as well as taxes on inheritance, gifts, capital gains, dividends, and interest. Big cities run by Democrats for decades are now supposedly 'ungovernable', HBO's sexploitation is a workers' rights travesty, WATCH: Steven Spielberg likens rise in antisemitism to 'Germany in the '30s', AOC gloats after construction of Virginia Amazon headquarters delayed as company cuts jobs, Alex Murdaugh trial: Watch the key video that could've sealed guilty murder verdict. "[250][251] Prior to the Supreme Court's 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges legalizing same-sex marriage across the United States, Paul held the view that the decision to ban same-sex marriage should be in the hands of states. Paul also said that conservatives must present a message of justice and concern for the unemployed and be against government surveillance to attract new people to the movement, including the young, Hispanics, and black voters. "[202] Once Trump was impeached in January 2021, Paul introduced a motion to the Senate declaring the impeachment to be unconstitutional. [276], On June 12, 2017, U.S. senators reached an agreement on legislation imposing new sanctions on Russia and Iran. Buy Rand Paul For President 2024 Quote T-Shirt: Shop top fashion brands T-Shirts at Amazon.com FREE DELIVERY and Returns possible on eligible purchases [154], In March 2017, Paul introduced the Stop Arming Terrorists Act that would prohibit the use of United States government funds to provide assistance to Al Qaeda, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and to countries supporting those organizations. This will be the 60th presidential election in United States history, and the first to be held after the Later that day, in an interview with CNBC, Paul clarified this statement, commenting "I'm not arguing vaccines are a bad idea. Paul said the grant was "not science" but "propagandizing". [356], On August 11, 2021, Rand Paul disclosed that his wife Kelley Paul had purchased a stake in Gilead Sciences, which manufactures an antiviral drug used to treat COVID-19, on February 26, 2020. [279] In August 2018 Paul traveled to Moscow and met with several Russian senators, including Sergey Kislyak. [126][127][128] Evidence soon surfaced that Paul had copied sentences in a number of his other speeches nearly verbatim from other authors without giving credit to the original sources,[129][130] including in the speech he had given as the Tea Party rebuttal to the president's 2013 State of the Union Address. [25] After his election to the U.S. Senate, he merged his practice with Downing's medical practice. He urged that the United States impose economic sanctions on Russia and resume an effort to build defensive anti-missile installations in Poland and the Czech Republic. [88] Paul also formed the Senate Tea Party Caucus with Jim DeMint and Mike Lee as its inaugural members. [121], In response to Detroit's declaration of bankruptcy, Paul stated he would not allow the government to attempt to bail out Detroit. [131][132] When it became apparent that Paul's op-ed in The Washington Times on mandatory minimums and related testimony he had given before the Senate Judiciary Committee both contained material that was virtually identical to an article that had been published by another author in The Week a few days earlier,[133] The Washington Times said that the newspaper would no longer publish the weekly column Paul had been contributing to the paper. Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul sat down with Fox host Laura Ingraham on Friday to share his theory on what would otherwise be an extraordinary handling of Biden by the so-called mainstream media that has gently treated Biden with kid gloves throughout his intentionally disastrous presidency. [182] On September 22, after President Trump tweeted that "Rand Paul, or whoever votes against Hcare Bill, will forever (future political campaigns) be known as 'the Republican who saved Obamacare'", Paul responded that he would not be coerced into supporting Graham-Cassidy with bribes or bullying. [77], In the 2010 general election, Paul faced Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway. [144] In December 2014, Paul supported the actions taken by the Obama administration to change United States policy towards Cuba and to ease trade restrictions with that country. [80][81], Paul's campaign got off to a rough start after his comments on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 stirred controversy. [381], In August 2020, immediately following his attendance at the keynote speech delivered by President Donald Trump for the 2020 Republican National Convention held at the White House, Paul was confronted by protestors on his way to a hotel with his wife. [284] In July, the Security Service of Ukraine placed Paul on a list of public figures whom it alleges promote Russian propaganda. [317] In 2020 he introduced the Hemp Economic Mobilization Plan (HEMP) Act to increase the THC limit of hemp from 0.3% to 1%. In a segment on Fox News, which went viral, comedian Jon Stewart and 9/11 first responder John Feal rebuked Paul, accusing him of hypocritical "fiscal responsibility virtue signalling", for delaying passage of the bill, while at the same time he voted in favor of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which increased the deficit. [123], In September, Paul stated that the United States should avoid military intervention in the ongoing Syrian Civil War. [110], For the 113th Congress, Paul was added to the Foreign Relations committee and retained his spot on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Homeland Security and Government Affairs, and Small Business committees. [368][370] According to a memorandum filed by Baker the dispute was over Paul repeatedly leaving tree yard debris near his property line with his neighbor. On Friday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) joined Fox News Laura Ingraham to discuss the way the mainstream media is covering President Joe Biden and whether it is a sign of waning support for the president as the