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Howard Dean
@howarddean· Democratic · VT· Sep 14, 2022

You`ve got whack jobs telling all the women in the country they`re going to take their rights away from them. And it wasn`t enough to have the corrupt Supreme Court make the decision they did, and they are corrupt.

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Howard Dean
@howarddean· Democratic · VT· Sep 14, 2022

So, look, I`m against corporal punishment in middle school, but I think Carlson, DeSantis and Abbott ought to be turned over somebody`s knee and given a good spanking. This is beyond just being racist. These are ridiculous twits who are…

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Howard Dean
@howarddean· Democratic · VT· Sep 14, 2022

This is up to the voters. If this goes down, it`s not going to be the Democrats` fault or even the Republicans` fault, it`s going to be the voters didn`t get out and stand up for themselves.

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Howard Dean
@howarddean· Democratic · VT· Sep 14, 2022

It`s not just democracy that`s on the ballot, it`s our way of life.

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Howard Dean
@howarddean· Democratic · VT· Sep 14, 2022

These are not our values. We don`t treat people like this.

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Howard Dean
@howarddean· Democratic · VT· Sep 14, 2022

Well, you know, we`ve got about seven weeks before the election, and lots can happen in seven weeks, but I`d rather be a Democrat today than I would a Republican if I`m in this fight. You`ve got a president who has handled things really…

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Howard Dean
@howarddean· Democratic · VT· Sep 14, 2022

We`re going to get a mandate to do that. We`re going to take the Senate, we`re going to hold the House, and in the next two years we`re going to have to straighten this country out.

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Tate Reeves
@tatereeves· Republican · MS· Sep 13, 2022

While the current governor, Tate Reeves, was not involved in any of this fraudulent spending, he was involved in the decision to fire the lawyer who had been hired to claw back some of the money, after that lawyer issued a subpoena seeking…

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Sep 13, 2022

Mr. President, this is going to be an unusual set of comments for me because I am going to start out with some personal history, which I hope will make sense in terms of what I want to address. I started working in the alternative energy…

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Jared Polis
@jaredpolis· Democratic · CO· Sep 13, 2022

In November, voters rejected Proposition 112 55 percent to 45 percent because it was bad public policy for Colorado.

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Jared Polis
@jaredpolis· Democratic · CO· Sep 13, 2022

I trust voters to put good policy over partisan ideology.

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John Hickenlooper
@johnhickenlooper· Democratic · CO· Sep 13, 2022

Let me say that again: Sea levels will rise by an additional foot by 2050.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Sep 13, 2022

Your comments about the incentives of a corporation are accurate, which is they are trying to make as much money as they can, and to do so they are trying to get as many eyeballs as they can.

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John Hickenlooper
@johnhickenlooper· Democratic · CO· Sep 13, 2022

My commitment is I have seen these projects from all levels, and if confirmed, I will make sure that equity is at the front of everything that we do.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Sep 13, 2022

I question whether we should allow an authoritarian regime to have a social media capability of the scale they have in our country.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Sep 13, 2022

I think that, to be honest, this Committee is uniquely placed to address this problem of transparency

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Sep 13, 2022

China is not a place that values transparency. It is a one-party, authoritarian state, and the most sophisticated police state in the world.

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