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Mike Pence
@mikepence· Republican · IN· Mar 5, 2025

There’s probably no more compelling gesture in the short term, to send a message of goodwill to the people of the United States or the free world, than if China were to take steps to free Jimmy Lai.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Mar 5, 2025

If the Trump administration turned you away, Minnesota wants you.

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Josh Green
@joshgreen· Democratic · HI· Mar 4, 2025

Public health is about the health of all of the population. You make the best recommendations for the population.

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Josh Green
@joshgreen· Democratic · HI· Mar 4, 2025

For children who are severely malnourished without adequate vitamin A, this is in countries that are deeply impoverished and you see massive malnutrition, yes. You want to make sure that vitamin A is -- is in a proper range because that…

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Josh Green
@joshgreen· Democratic · HI· Mar 4, 2025

I hear them hedging. They're hedging because casting doubt, supporting misinformation campaigns does exactly what RFK Jr. and his cohort have been trying to do, which is I kind of just have enough doubt so that people pause, so that they…

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Mar 4, 2025

The brothers weren't welcome in Florida and that he would have the attorney general examine whether the state may have any jurisdiction over their alleged crimes.

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Mike Rounds
@mikerounds· Republican · SD· Mar 4, 2025

The facts are Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia is the aggressor. Russia created this problem in the first place.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Mar 4, 2025

This is a politician getting involved in college politics on the belief that they have the qualifications to get involved.

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John Hoeven
@johnhoeven· Republican · ND· Mar 4, 2025

All we hear is about the savings or the cutting. They don’t hear about him wanting to make people more productive.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Mar 4, 2025

The immigration detainees sent to Guantánamo are the 'worst of the worst.'

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Martin O'Malley
@martinomalley· Mar 4, 2025

They are driving people out there with a viciousness that I believe will collapse the agency…. We have a 50-year low in staffing while the Baby Boomer generation is swelling their ranks.

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Bill Clinton
@billclinton· Democratic · AR· Mar 4, 2025

We have worked to give the American people a smaller, less bureaucratic government in Washington. And we have to give the American people one that lives within its means.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Mar 4, 2025

Higher costs aren’t the only consequence of Trump’s trade wars.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Mar 4, 2025

Cutting funds for these programs is a slap in the face to Illinois farmers and the communities they feed.

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Mar 4, 2025

President Trump's address this evening laid bare a cynical and profoundly dangerous approach to America's global leadership.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Mar 4, 2025

The brothers weren’t welcome in Florida and that he would have the attorney general examine whether the state may have any jurisdiction over their alleged crimes.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Mar 4, 2025

Florida is not a place where you are welcome with that type of conduct.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Mar 4, 2025

I do know our Attorney General, James Uthmeier, is looking at what state hooks and jurisdiction we may have to be able to deal with this.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Mar 4, 2025

The reality is, no, Florida is not a place where you're welcome with that type of conduct in the air.

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