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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Oct 1, 2026

Instead of subverting the EPA to Big Tech’s control, Trump and Zeldin should act in the interest of the American people and hold accountable the industries they are obligated to regulate.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Oct 1, 2026

75% of Americans do not want a data center in their backyard, yet Trump’s EPA has chosen to facilitate data center construction at the expense of our health, our pocketbooks, and our bedrock environmental laws.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Oct 1, 2026

ICE should stop preying upon our kids at sensitive locations, and in particular, school bus stops.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Oct 1, 2026

To me, it's pretty obvious that the intent here, with this new practice of ICE showing up at school bus stops, is to traumatize the children.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Oct 1, 2026

Imagine that six-year-old who boarded the school bus, and when he got back from school that day and got off, his parent wasn't there.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Oct 1, 2026

For parents in this body, you know how anxious that first day of school is, how kids are just brimming with nervous anxiety about that first day, and you know what that feels like to watch your kid walk onto that school bus.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Oct 1, 2026

I am […] just asking my colleagues: can we come to an agreement that school bus stops should be off limits?

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Oct 1, 2026

Their families – and the American people – deserve answers on their deaths. But today Republicans denied them that.

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Oct 1, 2026

The U.S. Government – including this Administration – has said time and again that our number one priority abroad is ensuring the safety and security of American citizens.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Oct 1, 2026

With the looming threat of massive job losses from AI, we have to find new ways to protect Americans from long periods of unemployment and connect them to good-paying, stable jobs.

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Oct 1, 2026

Every American who wants to work should be able to find a job. But with AI as a looming threat to our workforce – and nearly two million Americans already unemployed for six months or longer – it’s clear that we need to do more.

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Janelle Bynum
@janellebynum· OR· Oct 1, 2026

People need help after an emergency, and the faster that help comes, the better shot they have of rebuilding what was lost.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Oct 1, 2026

With ever-evolving NIL deals, we need real regulations to codify student athletes’ rights to earn money while participating in college sports, and this bipartisan bill does just that.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Oct 1, 2026

Ensuring our student athletes are looked out for is of the highest priority.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Oct 1, 2026

As college sports continue to generate billions of dollars, we must protect the student athletes who made these record-breaking profits possible.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Oct 1, 2026

I would say to those who are following the hearing—after hearing all of these references of Timothy Thibault—he was gone… from the FBI by the time Mr. Smith was appointed and he never met him. And he was not a part of his team. Some of…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Oct 1, 2026

“I have made it a priority in Congress to deliver clean water to millions of people across the world, which has a six to one return in terms of health, economic, and educational returns, and I am hopeful Assistant Secretary Brooks…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Oct 1, 2026

“With the dismantling of USAID and the Trump Administration’s cuts to global programs, I fear the poorest countries who look to the United States for help will be overlooked.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Oct 1, 2026

“Having access to clean water is transformative for the poorest places in the world—it avoids conflicts between nations, keeps girls in schools, reduces infant mortality, and improves health and economic opportunity,”

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Oct 1, 2026

“It doesn’t have to be this way. Americans are better people than that. We are not going to turn away innocent, hardworking people who are doing their best.”

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Oct 1, 2026

It’s time for us to rise up and for people to see us doing that, not to step back and say ‘well immigration was an issue in the last campaign.’ Yes, we’ve got to have sensible regulation of immigration, but this fear factor is…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Oct 1, 2026

Yes, we’ve got to have sensible regulation of immigration, but this fear factor is unacceptable. It’s un-American.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Oct 1, 2026

In a last-minute gasp before the midterm election, Senate Republicans were hoping to pass a meaningless bill that does nothing to rein in data centers and a voter suppression bill masquerading as an inadequate congressional stock trading…

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