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Greg Abbott
@gregabbott· Republican · TX· Nov 29, 2025

The Legislature redrew our congressional maps to better reflect Texans' conservative voting preferences -- and for no other reason.

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Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Nov 25, 2025

We keep thinking if we just win this election, we'll never have to work with those people.

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Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Nov 25, 2025

In my faith, we believe in agency. We believe that we are responsible for our own decisions and that other people aren't responsible for those.

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Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Nov 25, 2025

I think if you were to ask him that question, he would say no. I don't think that's happened.

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Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Nov 25, 2025

I would encourage people to log off, turn off, touch grass, hug a family member, go out and do good in your community.

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Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Nov 25, 2025

We have to decide: Is this an off-ramp?

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Tina Kotek
@tinakotek· Democratic · OR· Nov 25, 2025

Repair plans for the 20-inch segment are being developed and a timeline for repair and restart will be shared when available.

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Maggie Hassan
@maggiehassan· Democratic · NH· Nov 25, 2025

The fact that President Trump is putting forward any offer at all to extend the Affordable Care Act’s tax credits shows that there is a broad understanding that inaction in this regard will cause serious harm to the American people.

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Nov 25, 2025

They understand that the vast majority of people who benefit from these tax credits live in states the President won, and that the President’s own pollsters have underscored the enormous political urgency of Republicans acting.

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Nov 25, 2025

I’m glad the president is reportedly considering a serious proposal.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Nov 24, 2025

There are many problems with the plan as it has been reported, but the two most obvious are that it rewards Russia's illegal and unprovoked aggression by handing over substantial portions of Ukraine's sovereign territory, and its security guarantees against further Russian aggression are vague and inadequate.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Nov 24, 2025

This would be a complete capitulation and that's why I think you're hearing from Congress, both sides, people pushing back ... It feels like this was a plan that they took almost entirely from the Russians.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Nov 24, 2025

My reaction is it's awful. It would make Neville Chamberlain's giving in to Hitler outside of World War II looks strong in comparison.

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Bill Lee
@billlee· Republican · TN· Nov 24, 2025

Part of it is, understanding just what the cadence is going to look like over the next few months and then developing a strategy.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Nov 24, 2025

I think the president is seeing this one-sided plan kind of blow up in his face with pushback from the Ukrainians, from the Europeans, from members of Congress of his own party.

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Timothy Walz
@timothywalz· Democratic · MN· Nov 22, 2025

It's not surprising that the President has chosen to broadly target an entire community. This is what he does to change the subject.

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Mike Rounds
@mikerounds· Republican · SD· Nov 22, 2025

They want to utilize it as a starting point.

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