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Bill Nelson
@billnelson· Democratic · FL· Jun 20, 2018

Madam President, I have just returned from South Florida where I went to a detention facility in Homestead, FL. There are 1,000 children in this detention facility, and 94 of 1,000 are children who have been separated from their families…

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Dana Rohrabacher
@danarohrabacher· Republican · CA· Jun 20, 2018

Are we healthier? Did we handle that with what we did on our engines?

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Joe Barton
@joebarton· Republican · TX· Jun 20, 2018

Mr. Speaker, I rise in honor of the new head football coach at Ennis High School, Coach Sam Harrell. Coach Sam Harrell was born in 1975 in Seminole, Texas. He went to high school in Brownwood, Texas, where he was valedictorian. He became…

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Ted Poe
@tedpoe· Republican · TX· Jun 20, 2018

Mr. Speaker, yesterday, Lieutenant General Austin Miller, the nominee to lead our forces in Afghanistan, testified before the Senate that the biggest obstacle to success in Afghanistan is Pakistan. He echoes the same frustrations the…

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Joe Barton
@joebarton· Republican · TX· Jun 20, 2018

I thank Congressman Olson for his leadership as vice chairman of the subcommittee and a tireless leader on behalf of energy in this country. Also, I want to thank Congressman Johnson for his strong efforts and also compliment him on his…

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Tim Ryan
@timryan· Democratic · OH· Jun 20, 2018

Mr. Speaker, I think about my wife, Andrea, and I when we go to take a couple days away from the kids and we leave our 4- year-old with his grandparents, how heartbreaking it is to even leave that kid when you are leaving him with…

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Jun 20, 2018

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that in whatever order you choose, Senators Crapo, Baldwin, and Whitehouse each be given a minute, then I be allowed to speak in leader time, and the vote come immediately after that. The ACTING…

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Jun 20, 2018

Mr. President, I am on leader time. Forced Family Separation Mr. President, as the purposeful, cynical, and shameful humanitarian crisis of family separation at the border continues to unfold, the vast majority of Americans are looking to…

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Marcia Fudge
@marciafudge· Democratic · OH· Jun 20, 2018

We are going to cut Social Security benefits and we are going to cut Medicare and Medicaid to pay for a tax cut for rich people.

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Marcia Fudge
@marciafudge· Democratic · OH· Jun 20, 2018

I think there is absolutely nothing wrong with working with your hands.

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Marcia Fudge
@marciafudge· Democratic · OH· Jun 20, 2018

whatever numbers they keep telling us is just made up. Just more fake news, right?

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Marcia Fudge
@marciafudge· Democratic · OH· Jun 20, 2018

if it was not your intent to make the rich richer with the Trump tax scam, you absolutely failed miserably.

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Marcia Fudge
@marciafudge· Democratic · OH· Jun 20, 2018

most people on food stamps who can work do work.

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Marcia Fudge
@marciafudge· Democratic · OH· Jun 20, 2018

I just consider it fake news. It's just all fake news.

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Marcia Fudge
@marciafudge· Democratic · OH· Jun 20, 2018

This country knows that we are more than a billion dollars in debt as it relates to funding pensions.

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