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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Sep 18, 2025

If analysts believe their careers will be destroyed for offering inconvenient assessments, then we will only get the intelligence the White House wants.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 18, 2025

obviously Charlie Kirk was a master at not only the work he did online but offline, and his capacity to organize

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 18, 2025

calls on 10,000 men to step up as mentors, coaches, and tutors

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 17, 2025

'It will impact families and you’ll need somebody who can talk about it and that will visit with the American people about why we’re doing what we’re doing, and that will go out and tell the stories of all the victims and tell stories of…

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 17, 2025

And he opened the doors and said, ‘Come on in. If you are from an evil foreign government or a terrorist organization or a gang, you’re more than welcome, and we’re going to ignore our laws and treat you better than we do the American…

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 17, 2025

Sir, because you’re gonna have to have somebody who’s tough enough to do it.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 17, 2025

That story about this hunting dog had been used against me in political campaigns.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 17, 2025

I absolutely love animals. I’ve always had dogs. I still have a dog that goes everywhere with me. And that situation there was hard.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 17, 2025

ICE has received more than 150,000 applications from patriotic Americans who want to defend the homeland by removing the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from the U.S.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 17, 2025

Americans are answering their country’s call to serve and help remove murderers, pedophiles, rapists, terrorists, and gang members from our country.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 17, 2025

I just wanted them to know that their previous leadership had ridden over them, but I was going to ride with them, and I was going to be a part of helping them do their jobs again.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 17, 2025

I don’t know how they did that. I don’t know how they sat there and facilitated that.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Sep 17, 2025

Putting a gag order on a CDC director and directing her not to speak to those who have confirmed her and to whom she is responsible for oversight is a very serious matter.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Sep 17, 2025

Again, no concern about your qualifications. I had concern about your backbone, and I was wrong, and I apologize to you for being wrong.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 17, 2025

I don’t know how he slept at night.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 17, 2025

I think one of the biggest disservices they did to the country was not fulfill the mission of what the department was established for; it literally is to secure the homeland.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Sep 17, 2025

You got over the qualifications bar easily, but my worries about the direction of HHS made me question you very significantly on your backbone, a trait that is not in long supply in this town. And then when I voted against your…

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 17, 2025

We knew children were going missing.

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