{"id":544678,"date":"2021-05-28T17:20:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T21:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=544678"},"modified":"2021-05-28T17:20:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T21:20:26","slug":"sen-rand-paul-whips-the-props-out-to-go-over-costly-research-into-cocaine-and-risky-sex-habits-of-quail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-rand-paul-whips-the-props-out-to-go-over-costly-research-into-cocaine-and-risky-sex-habits-of-quail\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Rand Paul Whips The Props Out To Go Over Costly Research Into \u2018Cocaine And Risky Sex Habits Of Quail\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-rand-paul-whips-the-props-out-to-go-over-costly-research-into-cocaine-and-risky-sex-habits-of-quail%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=544678&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1320527750-scaled-e1622235344947.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"39.673185795162\">\n<p>Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul showed up to the Senate floor Friday with colorful props to call out wasteful tax spending on research at federal agencies like the National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Paul spoke for 32 minutes against the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/27\/senate-dems-amendment-human-animal-chimera\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Endless Frontier Act<\/a>, a bipartisan bill that would expand funding for science and technology research, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/rand-paul-props-senate-wasteful-research-lizards-treadmill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a> reported. Proponents of the bill say that it will help the U.S. compete with China, but Paul pointed to the $28 trillion <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/08\/21\/us-national-debt-exceeds-gdp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">national debt<\/a> as a reason to cut down on what he called wasteful spending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cI don\u2019t think this bill makes us stronger,\u201d Paul said. \u201cIn fact, I think the Chinese sit back \u2026 and laugh at America thinking we\u2019re going to be stronger by borrowing more money from China.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/27\/joe-biden-trillion-budget-debt\/\">(RELATED: REPORT: Biden To Propose $6 Trillion Budget That Would Break Debt Records)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cSo I just don\u2019t think it makes us any stronger at all,\u201d he added. \u201cI think it makes us weaker. It would be one thing if it weren\u2019t being so horribly wasted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul\u2019s props were poster boards highlighting expensive government-funded projects, like $357,000 used for studying \u201cCocaine and Risky Sex Habits of Quail\u201d and $1.6 million for research covering \u201cLizards on a Treadmill,\u201d Fox News reported. Another sign featured a picture of singer Dolly Parton and reminded lawmakers that the government spent $357,000 to send \u201ckids in Pakistan to Space Camp and Dollywood.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.3671875\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NIH Spent over $800,000 to study whether Japanese Quails are more Sexually promiscuous on cocaine. I think we could have simply polled the audience\u2026.and of course found they are\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lZYlRbyuun\">pic.twitter.com\/lZYlRbyuun<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1397223838547648520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul said that wasteful spending happens \u201cbecause we never vote for less money. It\u2019s always more.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/20\/national-debt-crisis-economist-us\/\">(RELATED: Here\u2019s How To Avoid A Debt Disaster In The Next Decade)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomebody\u2019s got to point out that the waste and abuse of money goes on,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Kentucky Sen. 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