Rand Paul
American politician
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| November 2024 | Paul reversed his stance and voted against Sanders' resolution disapproving a proposed foreign military sale to Israel. |
| January 2024 | Paul voted for a resolution proposed by Bernie Sanders to apply human rights provisions to Israel's military assistance; the proposal was defeated 72 to 11. |
| January 12 2024 | Rand Paul delivered an anti-endorsement against Nikki Haley, launching a website called 'Never Nikki', expressing his opposition to her foreign policy and declining to endorse any of the candidates he mentioned. |
| January 11 2024 | Rand Paul announced a major statement regarding the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries, which was set to take place the following morning. |
| October 10 2023 | Rand Paul published his book 'Deception: The Great Covid Cover-Up' with Regnery Publishing. |
| March 2023 | Rand Paul gained media attention by blocking Senator Josh Hawley's "No TikTok on United States Devices Act", arguing that a ban would infringe on First Amendment rights and would not effectively protect users' data. |
| 2022 | Paul also introduced the Breakthrough Therapies Act, allowing for the rescheduling of Schedule I drugs designated as breakthrough therapies by the FDA. |
| 2022 | Rand Paul won a third term as United States senator from Kentucky. |
| 2022 | He introduced the Right to Try Clarification Act to clarify that terminally ill patients can use Schedule I drugs after a Phase I clinical trial has been completed. |
| 2022 | Rand Paul was elected for his third term in the U.S. Senate, where he expressed his support for term limits. |
| December 2022 | The FDA Modernization Act 2.0, which Rand Paul co-sponsored, was signed into law, facilitating a shift away from mandatory animal testing in drug development. |
| May 12 2022 | Paul stopped a vote on a $40 billion spending bill for aid to Ukraine, arguing it was three times larger than the first aid package. |
| January 2022 | A video from 2013 resurfaced showing Rand Paul advising medical students at the University of Louisville to use misinformation tactics against opponents. |
| 2021 | Rand Paul co-sponsored the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 with Senator Cory Booker, which aimed to eliminate the requirement for animal testing in drug development prior to human trials. |
| 2021 | During Rachel Levine's confirmation hearing, Rand Paul compared transgender medicine to 'genital mutilation' and accused Levine of supporting the surgical destruction of minors' genitalia, which led to rebukes from committee chairman Patty Murray and other Democrats. |
| August 2021 | Paul was suspended from YouTube for a week after posting a video that included false claims regarding the effectiveness of masks. |
| August 11 2021 | Paul disclosed that his wife Kelley had purchased a stake in Gilead Sciences, a company manufacturing an antiviral drug for COVID-19, on February 26, 2020. |
| July 2021 | Rand Paul gained media attention during Senate hearings where he debated Anthony Fauci regarding the origins of COVID-19. |
| May 2021 | During President Biden's vaccination campaign, Paul publicly declared his choice not to receive the COVID vaccine, citing his previous infection and natural immunity. |
| May 28 2021 | Paul voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the 2021 United States Capitol attack. |
| February 13 2021 | Paul formally voted against the charges in the second impeachment trial of Trump, which aimed to convict him for incitement of insurrection. |
| February 3 2021 | Rand Paul was named a ranking member of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee. |
| January 2021 | After the January 6 Capitol attack, Rand Paul continued to make claims of fraud in the 2020 election, refusing to declare that it was not stolen. |
| January 6 2021 | During the Electoral College session to count the vote, following the Capitol attack, Paul argued for the importance of the electoral college in democracy and condemned the attack as 'violence and mob rule.' |
| 2020 | Paul held up bipartisan legislation that would make lynching a federal crime, seeking an amendment regarding non-fatal injuries. |
| 2020 | Rand Paul introduced the Hemp Economic Mobilization Plan (HEMP) Act to increase the THC limit of hemp from 0.3% to 1%. |
| 2020 | He introduced the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act aimed at ending the use of no-knock warrants. |
| 2020 | He was one of six Republican senators to vote no on expanding the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act. |
| December 2020 | Rand Paul claimed that the 2020 elections were fraudulent and stated that the election 'in many ways was stolen.' |
| September 2020 | Rand Paul was the only Republican senator to vote against the COVID-19 aid package proposed by Mitch McConnell, aligning with the unanimous opposition from Democrats due to concerns over increased national debt. |
| September 23 2020 | At a Senate committee hearing, Paul clashed with Anthony Fauci, questioning the CDC's recommendations and suggesting that New York's high fatality rate indicated insufficient mitigation efforts. |
| August 2020 | In August 2020, following his attendance at the keynote speech by President Donald Trump at the 2020 Republican National Convention, Rand Paul was confronted by protestors who were expressing their grievances regarding the shooting of Breonna Taylor. This confrontation occurred as he was heading to a hotel with his wife, prompting a police perimeter to escort them away from the crowd. |
| July 1 2020 | The Senate rejected Paul's amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, which sought the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Afghanistan within a year. |
| May 2020 | Rand Paul described stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic as 'dictatorship' implemented by Kentucky's Democratic governor Andy Beshear. |
| April 2020 | After recovering from COVID-19, Rand Paul began volunteering at a hospital in Bowling Green, assisting in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| April 7 2020 | Rand Paul announced his recovery from COVID-19. |
| March 22 2020 | Rand Paul announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the first member of the United States Senate to do so. |
| February 2020 | Paul criticized YouTube for removing a video of his floor speech regarding Donald Trump's impeachment trial, where he posed a controversial question to the impeachment managers. |
| February 26 2020 | Paul disclosed that his wife purchased between $1,000 and $15,000 in Gilead Sciences stock before the public fully understood the coronavirus threat, noting that the disclosure was late due to a submission error. |
| January 2020 | In a tweet, Rand Paul expressed his belief that despite climate alarmist predictions, humans will likely survive for hundreds of millions of years into the future, suggesting that efforts should begin to create atmospheres on suitable moons or planets. |
| 2019 | In 2019, Rand Paul was one of 11 Republicans who voted against President Trump's request for 'emergency border funding'. |
| November 2019 | Rand Paul signed a pledge to support a constitutional amendment to limit senators to two terms. |
| November 4 2019 | Rand Paul called for the media to disclose the identity of Trump's Ukraine whistleblower, threatening to reveal the name himself. |
| September 2019 | The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated Boucher's initial 30-day prison sentence, ruling it was unreasonably short, and sent the case back for resentencing. |
| August 2019 | As a result of the injuries from the assault, part of Rand Paul's lung required removal. |
| July 17 2019 | Paul blocked Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's motion for unanimous consent on a bill renewing the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, arguing for a vote on an amendment to offset new spending by cuts elsewhere. |
| May 2019 | Paul criticized the Trump administration for escalating tensions with Iran. |
| January 2019 | Rand Paul condemned Senator Mitt Romney for criticizing President Trump in an editorial, arguing that Romney's remarks were detrimental to both the country and the Republican Party. |
| 2018 | Rand Paul called for an investigation of a National Science Foundation grant that was aimed at educating meteorologists about the science of climate change, labeling the grant as 'not science' but 'propagandizing'. |
| 2018 | Paul introduced the Pregnant Women in Custody Act to protect the health and safety of pregnant women in prison. |
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