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Rand Paul Calls Out Nancy Pelosi’s Daughter, Wishes Husband Well
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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul called out Nancy Pelosi's daughter and wished the House speaker's husband a "speedy recovery" after an early morning assault at their San Francisco home left him hospitalized.
"No one deserves to be assaulted," the Republican lawmaker wrote on Twitter Friday morning. "Unlike Nancy Pelosi's daughter who celebrated my assault, I condemn this attack and wish Mr. Pelosi a speedy recovery."
His comments were in response to a March 2020 tweet that said Twitter removed comments made by Nancy Pelosi's daughter, who appeared to endorse a 2017 assault on Paul, in which he was attacked by his next-door neighbor and sustained broken ribs and bruises to his lungs.
The March 2020 tweet included a screenshot of a tweet from a Christine Pelosi tweet, which said "Rand Paul's neighbor was right."
Early Friday morning, someone broke into Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home and "violently assaulted" her husband.
The House speaker was not home at the time of the incident, and her husband, Paul, is expected to make a full recovery after he was taken to a local hospital.
"The Speaker and her family are grateful to the first responders and medical professionals involved, and request privacy at this time," Nancy Pelosi's office said in a statement Friday morning.
The US Capitol Police said it was helping the FBI and the San Francisco Police Department to investigate the incident.
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Rand Paul promises to ‘subpoena every last document of Dr. Fauci’ in …
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul sailed to re-election Tuesday night, promising to subpoena "every last document of Dr. [Anthony] Fauci" and focusing on whether COVID-19 can be traced to lab research in China.
"I promise you this: the COVID cover-up will end" the Kentucky senator told supporters.
Paul won a third six-year term in Congress on Tuesday, scoring a victory that the Associated Press called relatively early Tuesday evening as election results rolled in.
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., left, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House chief medical adviser and director of the NIAID (Greg Nash/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
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The libertarian-leaning senator ran on a staunchly conservative ticket, promising voters to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 virus, among other key issues.
"I will not only hold Dr. Fauci accountable, we will finally investigate why your tax dollars were sent to fund dangerous research in Wuhan [in China]."
Paul and Fauci, the White House chief medical adviser and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, have repeatedly sparred over this issue at several Senate hearings.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks during the COVID Federal Response Hearing on Capitol Hill, June 16, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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The senator then transitioned to call Kentucky supporters to "savor" the victorious race and highlighted his ideals of individual freedoms.
"Liberty should bring people together because each and every citizen is left alone to enjoy their own personal freedoms," Paul said. "Liberty is that great harmonizer that allows us to live together despite our differences."
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Rand Paul didnt tell Nancy Pelosi shes a traitor in this video – PolitiFact
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., once called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a "petty tyrant" but a "traitor"? A recent Facebook post sharing a 16-minute video featuring Paul suggests that he calls the California Democrat just that.
"Shes a traitor! Rand Paul uncovers Nancy Pelosis dark secrets in public," a description of the video in the Oct. 3 post says.
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The video in the post shows Paul speaking on the U.S. Senate floor in May about a bill to provide $40 billion in aid to Ukraine to help the country fight Russias invasion. But Paul doesnt mention Pelosi, or even utter the word "traitor." Rather, he explains his objections to the legislation, such as using taxpayer money for a foreign war.
U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, appears in the videoslast two minutes, giving a speech on the House floor. But he also doesnt call Pelosi a traitor.
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Searching online for evidence that Paul elsewhere called Pelosi a traitor, we found none. U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., once called Pelosi a traitor, drawing news coverage of her remarks, but we found no similar media reports about Paul.
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Congress to reauthorize reformed Pentagon innovation grants after Paul drops opposition – DefenseNews.com
Correction:A previous version of this article misstated some of the penalties for companies for missing benchmarks under the new legislation. The story has been edited to clarify the penalties.
This story was updated on Sept. 21, 2022 at 10:14 AM after the Senate passed the bill.
WASHINGTON Congress could pass legislation as soon as this week to reauthorize a small business innovation grant program favored by the Pentagon after reforms addressing concerns over the abuse of the rewards process persuaded Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to drop his opposition to the program.
Paul told Defense News on Tuesday that he will not block a unanimous consent request for the Senate to pass the bill reauthorizing the Small Business Administrations Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer awards for three years.
Those programs are set to expire by the end of the month.
We were happy to get some reforms in it, the Kentucky Republican said.
Paul had used his clout as the top Republican on the Small Business Committee to block reauthorization of the program. The 43-page compromise legislation, first seen by Defense News, is the product of months of negotiations meant to assuage Pauls concerns.
The reauthorization bill includes new provisions to address ties between some program awardees and China, while adding additional performance benchmarks aimed at commercializing projects to attract more private capital investment.
Senate Small Business Committee Chairman Ben Cardin, D-Md., told Defense News that he filed the reauthorization bill Tuesday, and the Senate passed it by unanimous consent shortly thereafter. The House is expected to easily pass the bill as soon as this week under expedited procedures.
The Defense Department accounts for the majority of the SBIR and STTR awards, which ballooned to nearly $3.3 billion in 2011. The program is awarded jointly by 11 federal agencies, and individual awards range from tens of thousands of dollars to more than $1 million for a two-year grant.
The programs incentivize small businesses to engage in early-stage research and development for technologies and products that companies might otherwise shy away from given uncertain returns on investments.
SBIR grants that were awarded by the Air Force to AeroVironment led to the development of the small, kamikaze Switchblade drones, which the United States has sent to Ukraine as it fends off Russias invasion. The Pentagon also relies on SBIR and STTR grants to spur technologies in fields such as artificial intelligence, data processing and munitions development.
Still, Paul had argued that the two programs lacked protections against China gaining access to U.S. technology and that some companies rely entirely on the grants to sustain themselves without spinning off new businesses or products.
Chinese state-sponsored companies have targeted U.S. firms that receive the grants, hoping to benefit from the investments. A 2021 Pentagon report on a small sample of SBIR awardees found China was the ultimate beneficiary of the grants, not the United States.
Under the reauthorization bills new guidelines, SBIR or STTR applicants must now disclose whether the company has ties to any foreign country of concern, including the Peoples Republic of China. The Defense Department and other agencies must deny awards to applicants that have ties to Chinese companies or have high-level employees that are part of a malign foreign talent recruitment program.
The bill requires each federal agency that awards the grants to coordinate with the Small Business Administration in the creation of a due diligence program to assess security risks presented by small business concerns seeking a federally funded award.
The Small Business Administration and the White Houses Office of Science and Technology must also consult with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to establish best practices to guide these due diligence programs.
Additionally, the enhanced performance benchmarks differentiate between Phase I and Phase II SBIR and STRR grants. Under the program, Phase I awards range from $50,000 to $250,000 for six to 12 months. Phase II awards range from $750,000 to nearly $2 million for two years. There are also direct to Phase II awards, which allow companies to receive Phase II grants without first competing Phase I research.
The new legislation doubles the minimum performance standards for each small business that receives more than 50 Phase I grants within five years.
Additionally, a small business that has received more than 50 Phase II awards within the past 12 years must garner an average of $250,000 of aggregate sales and investments for each of those awards. And a company with more than 100 Phase II awards within the past 12 years must earn an average of $450,000 in aggregate sales and investments.
If a company does not meet these standards, then it may not receive more than 20 total SBIR and STTR Phase I and direct to Phase II awards for one year per agency. They may still receive unlimited Phase II awards.
Bryant Harris is the Congress reporter for Defense News. He has covered U.S. foreign policy, national security, international affairs and politics in Washington since 2014. He has also written for Foreign Policy, Al-Monitor, Al Jazeera English and IPS News.