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[[File:John Shadegg (45746681215).jpg|right|thumb|Shadegg speaking at the [[Arizona State Capitol]] building.]]
Shadegg is a staunch advocate of a federal prohibition of online [[poker]]. In 2006, he cosponsored H.R. 4411, the [[Goodlatte]]-Leach Internet Gambling Prohibition Act<ref>[http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.04411: Thomas (Library of Congress): HR 4411]</ref> and H.R. 4777, the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act.<ref>[http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.04777: Thomas (Library of Congress): HR 4777]</ref>
Shadegg is vehemently opposed to the Healthcare Reform Package that was tabled in October 2009. He said the reform package is a "Soviet-style gulag health care", and will make American healthcare something akin to that available to the prisoners of Russian gulag.<ref>{{cite web|author=14 oktober 2009 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XSFbvRXNGg |title=Rep. Shadegg: We're getting
On October 14, 2009, Shadegg joined with three fellow Representatives in calling for the investigation of CAIR (the [[Council on American-Islamic Relations]]) over allegations of trying to plant "spies
In November 2009, New York City Mayor [[Michael Bloomberg]] expressed confidence in the security of having five 9/11 suspects brought to trial in lower Manhattan, to which Shadegg gave an overheated response: "Well mayor, how are you going to feel when it is your daughter that is kidnapped at school by a terrorist?".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/11/lawmaker_what_if_terrorists_took_nyc_mayors_kid.php |title=Lawmaker: What if terrorists took NYC mayor's kid | TPM News Pages |publisher=Talkingpointsmemo.com |date=November 17, 2009 |accessdate=March 19, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124063640/http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/11/lawmaker_what_if_terrorists_took_nyc_mayors_kid.php |archivedate=November 24, 2009 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> He later apologized to the mayor and his family for "the insensitivity of my remarks."
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Despite his support of the second economic stimulus package bill, he voted "NO" on the first Economic Package and he also was a proponent of the [[2009 Tea Party protests]] which condemned any bailouts, and even spoke at a rally in Phoenix.<ref name="Think Progress">{{cite web|title= Republican Members of Congress embrace radical anti-Obama Protests | url= http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/08/gopestablishment-joins-teaparties/| date= April 15, 2009}}</ref>
On November 30, 2010, Shadegg declared his opposition to the extension of unemployment benefits on the basis that "the unemployed will spend as little of that money as they possibly can", having commented to Mike Barnicle "Your answer is it's the spending of money that drives the economy and I
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