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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Dec 8, 2025

We’re going to have the health-care debate in full view of the American public, and they’re going to see who’s standing up for them on affordability and who’s not.

theatlantic.com
Mike Rounds
@mikerounds· Republican · SD· Dec 8, 2025

The fear is, is if you regulate it, you slow it down. If you don't regulate it, you have people that could get hurt.

abcnews.go.com
Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Dec 8, 2025

But demonizing an entire group of people by their race and their ethnicity? A very group of people who contribute to the vitality − economic, cultural − of this state, is something I hoped we'd never have to see.

usatoday.com
Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Dec 8, 2025

You commit crimes, you go to jail. Doesn't matter what your race is, what your ethnicity, religion.

usatoday.com
Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Dec 1, 2025

These are the wealthiest and most powerful companies in the history of the world, and they’re profiting off of destroying our kids and destroying our country, and they know it, and it’s very intentional.

politico.com
Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Dec 1, 2025

At some point we have to find an off-ramp, or else it’s going to get much worse.

politico.com
Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Nov 30, 2025

This is an activist judge and I understand, you know, we’re still in litigation with this against this activist judge who’s continuously tried to stop us from protecting the American people.

theguardian.com
Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Nov 30, 2025

Yes, I made that decision and that decision was under my complete authority and following the law and the constitution.

theguardian.com
Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Nov 30, 2025

We’ll continue to do the right thing, continue to work and protect Americans, no matter what radical judge comes out and tries to stop us.

theguardian.com
Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Nov 30, 2025

We believe he was radicalized since he’s been here in this country.

theguardian.com
Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Nov 30, 2025

The vetting process all happened under Joe Biden's administration.

nbcnews.com
Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Nov 30, 2025

Vetting is happening when they come into the country, and that was completely abandoned under Joe Biden’s administration.

nbcnews.com
Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Nov 30, 2025

The circumstances have changed in the months since we had that vote.

cbsnews.com
Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Nov 30, 2025

It's time for Congress to rein in a president who is deciding to wage war on his own say-so, which is not what the Constitution allowed.

cbsnews.com
Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Nov 30, 2025

If that reporting is true, it's a clear violation of the DoD's own laws of war, as well as international laws about the way you treat people who are in that circumstance.

cbsnews.com
Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Nov 30, 2025

But what President Trump has put in place now for vetting is biometric information, checking social media platforms, communications, contacts, matching updates of service that was never done under Joe Biden.

cbsnews.com
Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Nov 30, 2025

What they did was check a few names and a few data points.

cbsnews.com
Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Nov 30, 2025

The president's decision to say, OK, this particular criminal, who should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, who came in under an asylum grant... don't say that all Afghans in the United States... are bad.

cbsnews.com
Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Nov 30, 2025

This is shocking. And again, this is not an individual who was accused of running drugs to the United States. He was convicted in a federal court in the United States.

cbsnews.com
Patrick Morrisey
@patrickmorrisey· WV· Nov 30, 2025

I think people who question the mission should look at what's happened in Washington, D.C., and you had a city that had a lot of problems with crime, and there have been clear and meaningful reductions.

cbsnews.com
Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Nov 30, 2025

I made that decision. And that decision was under my complete authority and following the law and the Constitution.

abcnews.go.com