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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Sep 27, 2022

I already telegraphed my pitch and indicated one of the things I am looking for is finding consensus.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 27, 2022

Ron DeSantis is arresting elected officials. He is sending SWAT team with people in their underwear at 6:00 in the morning because they registered to vote and voted.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 27, 2022

They can’t claim to be pro-life when they’re just pro-birth. They can’t claim to embrace and celebrate freedom, where they’re denied freedom for women and girls and reproductive rights.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 27, 2022

I mean, he`s hardwired for a different world but that world`s gone, and he`s acknowledged that very publicly on multiple occasions.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 27, 2022

Joe Biden has that quality imagination. Nancy Pelosi does.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 27, 2022

Where is the Democratic Party? Where’s the party? Why aren’t we standing up more firmly, more resolutely? Why are we calling this out?

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 27, 2022

We may never see like this -- see anything like this again.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 27, 2022

It’s sick. It’s -- I mean, I’m a parent -- man, I mean, how -- how do I explain that to my -- forget the Democrat, Republican, us versus -- it’s like what? Someone did that? They would do that to kids, to other people’s kids? To human…

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 27, 2022

People are losing their rights. I can`t sit back -- you`ve got to push back. We`ve got to hold them accountable and yes, we prepare ourselves for the great reconciliation.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 27, 2022

Bill Clinton said decades ago, right, when we got shellacked to one of the midterms, said, given the choice, the American people always support strong and wrong versus weak and right, and there was truth then about that, there’s truth…

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 27, 2022

I think we`ve stressed the debate a little bit. I mean, they`re like, oh, look at over there. Hey, well, I`m not that, but now, people are lean -- I`m talking to other governors, and some of my friends, some are becoming closer friends…

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Sep 26, 2022

Until it can be established that all of the recommendations in this report have been implemented, the program should be suspended and all dogs returned to the United States.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Sep 26, 2022

It is shocking that a program this expensive and supposedly this critical to antiterrorism efforts has been run so haphazardly.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Sep 26, 2022

A second OIG report was issued in December 2019 because 'the Office of Inspector General (OIG) received notice of additional canine deaths that warrant[ed] immediate Department action.'

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Sep 26, 2022

In light of these reports, the Committee will hold further funding for this program in abeyance until the Department provides the Committee with a detailed written accounting of the policies and procedures that have been put in place to…

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· Republican · FL· Sep 26, 2022

We feel like we have a good relationship with FEMA. I`m happy to brief the president if he`s interested in hearing what we`re doing in Florida. My view on all this is, like, you got people`s lives at stake. You got their property at stake…

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· Republican · FL· Sep 26, 2022

Folks should be prepared if you`re in this region, that there is going to be an interruption of power. So just plan on that.

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Lamar Alexander
@lamaralexander· Republican · TN· Sep 26, 2022

A similar proposal was included in the discussion draft of the Lower Health Care Costs Act, released by Senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray.

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