Birthdate: 1935-08-20


Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


Family:

• Spouse: Carol Paul;
• Children: 5 children, 17 grandchildren



Religion:

• Protestant


Education:

• Duke University School of Medicine, M.D., 1961; 
• Gettysburg College, B.A., 1957; 
• Dormont High School 


Military Service:

• Flight Surgeon, United States Air National Guard, 1965-1968;
• Flight Surgeon, United States Air Force, 1963-1965 



Career:

• U.S. House of Representatives, 14th district of Texas, 1997-present; 
• U.S. House of Representatives, 22nd district of Texas, 1979-1985; 
• Libertarian candidate for president, 1988 



Present Position:

Representative from Texas, Medical Doctor



Ron Paul position on the War in Iraq:

• Has opposed the war from the beginning as announced in his statement on
the house floor in October of 2002.
• Paul opposes the present troop increase.
• Favors immediate withdrawal and has stated, "a military victory in Iraq
is unattainable, just as it was in the Vietnam war" and that "it was never in
our national security interest to go over there."




Ron Paul position on Immigration:

• Paul would physically secure our borders and coastlines and do whatever
it takes to control entry into our country before we undertake complicated
immigration reform proposals. 
• He would enforce visa rules.  Immigration officials must track visa
holders and deport anyone who overstays their visa or otherwise violates U.S.
law.  This is especially important when we recall that a number of 9/11
terrorists had expired visas. 
• He opposes amnesty.  Estimates suggest that 10 to 20 million people are
in our country illegally. That?s a lot of people to reward for breaking our
laws. 
• He opposes welfare for illegal aliens.  Americans have welcomed
immigrants who seek opportunity, work hard, and play by the rules.  He believes
that taxpayers should not pay for illegal immigrants who use hospitals, clinics,
schools, roads, and social services. 
• He would end birthright citizenship believing as long as illegal
immigrants know their children born here will be citizens, the incentive to
enter the U.S. illegally will remain strong.  
• He would pass true immigration reform and believes that the current
system is incoherent and unfair.  Current reform proposals would allow up to 60
million more immigrants into our country, according to the Heritage Foundation. 
Paul believes this is insanity and that legal immigrants from all countries
should face the same rules and waiting periods. 




Ron Paul position on Health Care:

• He would make all medical expenses tax deductible. 
• He would eliminate federal regulations that discourage small businesses
from providing coverage. 
• He would give doctors the freedom to collectively negotiate with
insurance companies and drive down the cost of medical care. 
• Paul proposes making every American eligible for a Health Savings
Account (HSA), and removing the requirement that individuals must obtain a
high-deductible insurance policy before opening an HSA. 
• He would reform licensure requirements so that pharmacists and nurses
can perform some basic functions to increase access to care and lower costs.




Ron Paul position on Abortion:

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Ron Paul position on National Security:

• Paul believes that securing our borders against a possible terrorist
threat the top defense priority. 
• He would re-focus the efforts of our military and intelligence services
on locating those individuals who planned the terrorist attacks on the U.S. and
who remain at large. It must be made clear that the United States cannot be
attacked with impunity. 
• He voted for the authorization to use force against those who attacked
us in 2001 but did not imagine that we would be getting bogged down for years
in a nation-building exercise in Afghanistan while the perpetrators remain at
large. Efforts in that part of the world should be exclusively focused on
apprehending those responsible for the attacks against the United States. 
• He calls for a complete overhaul of U.S. intelligence requirements and
capabilities. 




Ron Paul position on the Environment:

• Paul consistently votes against using tax dollars to subsidize logging
in National Forests. 
• He is a co-sponsor of legislation designed to encourage the development
of alternative and sustainable energy. H.R. 550 extends the investment tax
credit to solar energy property and qualified fuel cell property, and H.R. 1772
provides tax credits for the installation of wind energy property. 
• Paul was named a "Treasury Guardian" by Taxpayers for Common Sense for
his work against environmentally-harmful government spending and corporate
welfare. 
• He is a member of the Congressional Green Scissors Coalition, a
bipartisan caucus devoted to ending taxpayer subsidies of projects that harm
the environment for the benefit of special interests. 




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Ron Paul position on Social Security:

• Paul believes that the Social Security system is broke and broken. He
says it was our nation's promise to its seniors, was once considered a sacred
trust, and has now become little more than a tool for politicians to scare
retirees while robbing them of their promised benefits.
• Those in the system are seeing their benefits dwindle due to higher
taxes, increasing inflation, and irresponsible public spending. 
• He believes the proposed solutions, ranging from lower benefits to
higher taxes to increasing the age of eligibility, are not solutions; they are
betrayals. 
• He believes that imposing any tax on Social Security benefits is unfair
and illogical. In Congress, he introduced the Senior Citizens Tax Elimination
Act (H.R. 191), which repeals all taxes on Social Security benefits, to
eliminate political theft of our seniors? income and raise their standard of
living. 
• He believes that solvency is the key to keeping our promise to our
seniors, and introduced the Social Security Preservation Act (H.R. 219) to
ensure that money paid into the system is only used for Social Security. 
• Paul says it is fundamentally unfair to give benefits to anyone who has
not paid into the system. The Social Security for Americans Only Act (H.R. 190)
ends the drain on Social Security caused by illegal aliens seeking the fruits
of American labor. 
• He believes that we must also address the desire of younger workers to
save and invest on their own. We should cut payroll taxes and give workers the
opportunity to seek better returns in the private market. 
• He said that excessive government spending has created the insolvency
crisis in Social Security and that we must significantly reduce spending so
that our nation can keep its promise to our seniors. 




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Ron Paul position on Gun Control:

• Paul is a strong proponent of the Second Amendment, has a pro-gun rights
voting record and has received high ratings and large contributions from pro-gun
groups.
• He would allow pilots and specially assigned law enforcement personnel
to carry firearms in order to protect airline passengers and let airlines make
rules about passengers carrying registered guns to fight terror, possibly
preventing future 9/11-style attacks. 
• We would ease procedures on the purchase and registration of firearms.
• He favors allowing ?law abiding citizens? to carry concealed weapons. 
• He introduced legislation to repeal the so-called ?assault weapons?
ban. 
• Paul voted against background checks for the purchase of guns at gun
shows.
• He would end the ban on carrying a firearm in the National Park System,
restoring Americans? ability to protect themselves in potentially hazardous
situations.
• He voted NO on prohibiting product misuse lawsuits on gun
manufacturers. 
• He voted NO on prohibiting lawsuits against gun makers & sellers for
gun misuse. 
• He voted NO on decreasing gun-waiting period from 3 days to 1 day. 




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