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The Republican Party should be proud of itself.
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" Party of Prosperity
Low taxes, sound money, regulatory restraint: these were among the commonsense economic policies established by the GOP that brought about decades of prosperity after the Civil War. Republicans encouraged innovation and rule of law. Buttressed by Republican control in Congress, the McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and Taft administrations cleared away obstacles to economic growth.
President Dwight Eisenhower and congressional Republicans appreciated the fact that the private sector, not government, is the engine of wealth creation. With his bold tax-cutting agenda, President Ronald Reagan revived the economy after years of Democrat malaise. "
-MARCH 20
1854
First Republican Party meeting in Ripon, Wisconsin.
-JANUARY 1
1863
President Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation.
-JANUARY 31
1865
Republican-controlled 38th Congress passes the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery.
-JANUARY 13
1866
With unanimous Republican support and against intense Democrat opposition, Congress passes the 14th Amendment.
-MARCH 1
1872
Republican-controlled 42nd Congress establishes Yellowstone as first national park.
-DECEMBER 9
1872
First African-American governor, Pinckney Pinchback (R-LA), inaugurated.
-APRIL 2
1917
First woman in Congress, Rep. Jeannette Rankin (R-MT), sworn in.
-MAY 21
1919
Republican-controlled 66th Congress passes the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote.
-JUNE 2
1924
Republican-controlled 68th Congress and President Calvin Coolidge grant citizenship to Native Americans.
-DECEMBER 7
1928
First Hispanic U.S. Senator, Senator Octaviano Larrazolo (R-NM), sworn in.
-JANUARY 3
1949
Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME) becomes the first woman to serve in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
-MAY 17
1954
Brown v Board of Education strikes down racial segregation in public schools; majority decision written by Chief Justice Earl Warren, former governor (R-CA) and vice presidential nominee.
-SEPTEMBER 9
1957
President Dwight Eisenhower signs the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
-AUGUST 21
1959
First Asian-American U.S. Senator, Hiram Fong (R-HI), is seated.
-JUNE 10
1964
Senate passes the 1964 Civil Rights Act when the Republican leader, Everett Dirksen (R-IL), defeats Democrat filibuster.
-SEPTEMBER 25
1981
Sandra Day O’Connor, appointed by President Reagan, becomes first woman on the Supreme Court.
-JUNE 12
1987
President Ronald Reagan calls for liberation of East Europeans from Communism with “Tear Down This Wall” speech.
Excerpt, as follows:
" Party of Prosperity
Low taxes, sound money, regulatory restraint: these were among the commonsense economic policies established by the GOP that brought about decades of prosperity after the Civil War. Republicans encouraged innovation and rule of law. Buttressed by Republican control in Congress, the McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and Taft administrations cleared away obstacles to economic growth.
President Dwight Eisenhower and congressional Republicans appreciated the fact that the private sector, not government, is the engine of wealth creation. With his bold tax-cutting agenda, President Ronald Reagan revived the economy after years of Democrat malaise. "
-MARCH 20
1854
First Republican Party meeting in Ripon, Wisconsin.
-JANUARY 1
1863
President Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation.
-JANUARY 31
1865
Republican-controlled 38th Congress passes the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery.
-JANUARY 13
1866
With unanimous Republican support and against intense Democrat opposition, Congress passes the 14th Amendment.
-MARCH 1
1872
Republican-controlled 42nd Congress establishes Yellowstone as first national park.
-DECEMBER 9
1872
First African-American governor, Pinckney Pinchback (R-LA), inaugurated.
-APRIL 2
1917
First woman in Congress, Rep. Jeannette Rankin (R-MT), sworn in.
-MAY 21
1919
Republican-controlled 66th Congress passes the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote.
-JUNE 2
1924
Republican-controlled 68th Congress and President Calvin Coolidge grant citizenship to Native Americans.
-DECEMBER 7
1928
First Hispanic U.S. Senator, Senator Octaviano Larrazolo (R-NM), sworn in.
-JANUARY 3
1949
Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME) becomes the first woman to serve in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
-MAY 17
1954
Brown v Board of Education strikes down racial segregation in public schools; majority decision written by Chief Justice Earl Warren, former governor (R-CA) and vice presidential nominee.
-SEPTEMBER 9
1957
President Dwight Eisenhower signs the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
-AUGUST 21
1959
First Asian-American U.S. Senator, Hiram Fong (R-HI), is seated.
-JUNE 10
1964
Senate passes the 1964 Civil Rights Act when the Republican leader, Everett Dirksen (R-IL), defeats Democrat filibuster.
-SEPTEMBER 25
1981
Sandra Day O’Connor, appointed by President Reagan, becomes first woman on the Supreme Court.
-JUNE 12
1987
President Ronald Reagan calls for liberation of East Europeans from Communism with “Tear Down This Wall” speech.
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Notice all of "the good stuff" is before the religious right attempted to inject religion into law, and the Tea Party made compromise and negotiation bad words and most importantly, before Trump made racism and hate-speech acceptable.
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SGT Tim Soyars - I was a senior special agent for Homeland Security and work in the immigration courts now.
The people crossing the border illegally are farmers and laborers. Terrorists cross the border on airplanes, with passports and visas, not counting those who were born here.
The people crossing the border illegally are farmers and laborers. Terrorists cross the border on airplanes, with passports and visas, not counting those who were born here.
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SGT Tim Soyars
I understand that, sir. I was referring to events in the late 80s and early 90s. I attended training as a LEO that specifically addressed this issue. We had many migrants that working the fields and orchards in the Central Virginia area. We had to deal with them regularly. Now days, I see them in my medical job in the ER. In my LEO job, they are usually dead or involved in a death. I know that, nowadays, the terrorist networks have very sophisticated means of traveling where they want to go. I may have been just a local LEO and now a state investigator, but I keep up on these thing. My old units are in the business of death with many of these people. I still talk with people from Quantico to Camp Peary to Ft. Banning and Hunter AAF. It pays to have friends in low places. I do worry more about the ones that were born here. It's scary some times. I am very familiar with Red House, VA.
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SGT Tim Soyars - The immigration issue is worse now than in the 1980s not because of who is crossing the border (illegal immigration is actually a net negative with Mexico for the last five years), but because we have made the LEGAL method for keeping families together unworkable. It was the law signed by Bill Clinton that imposed a 10-year-bar to reentry for people with more than a year of unlawful presence, and 10 year family separation as a part of the normal process just means that people will stay in the shadows and not use that process.
Reagan and Bush never suggested ripping families apart, but so long as that is the legal process, people here illegally won't immigrate the legal way.
Reagan and Bush never suggested ripping families apart, but so long as that is the legal process, people here illegally won't immigrate the legal way.
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SGT Tim Soyars
I do wish there was a better way to immigrate. For the amount of money that people pay to be smuggled across, I would think they could go the legal route, but the process is a bureaucratic nightmare. The stumbling blocks that other governments put in the process for their own citizens in insane, as well. When my family came here, they filled out the forms in Cuba, got on the boat, got off in the US and reported to immigration. Of course, my great-grandfather believed that if you come to America, be an American, speak English, help you neighbors, serve you community and your country. When ask if he was Cuba, he would reply, "I was born in Cuba, but I am an American".
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