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Sadly, the United States today is making the same mistakes that it did in Rwanda, turning away rather than turning towards.

As we see in Sudan and Burma, oppressive regimes are mercilessly targeting civilians, using many of the same tactics from Rwanda more than 30 years ago.

The United States failed to act and prevent the Rwandan genocide—and during my stay, I reflected on how we, as a nation, could strive to never make that same mistake again.

This ruling is an affront to good governance and the point of ‘independent’ federal agencies in the first place.

Now, this President can fire whomever he perceives as his enemy at these agencies without so much as citing cause.

The Supreme Court just overturned well-established precedent to greenlight Donald Trump’s threats to independent federal agencies.

While today’s ruling is a temporary win, we know the President will not concede and only ramp up his attacks.

President Trump’s politically motivated criminal investigation of Lisa Cook, without cause, is all about his abuse of power and intimidation tactics.

To preserve the right to vote for every eligible American, Congress must take action to protect this precious right, including passing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore and strengthen the protections of the Voting…

While today’s Supreme Court ruling was a victory, voting rights are still under attack.

There is nothing more fundamental in a democracy than the right to vote, whether that be in person at the polls or with a mail-in ballot.

We are a nation of immigrants, and we must end this anti-immigrant campaign fueled by fear and hatred.

While I am relieved that the Court rightly decided that birthright citizenship is the law of the land, I would be naive to believe that this will stop Trump’s attacks.

President Trump’s illegal birthright citizenship order was not just an attack on our Constitution—it was an attack on millions of Americans who have immigrant heritage.

By directing adjudicators to treat adjustment of status as an 'extraordinary form of relief' and by creating a policy preference for consular processing, the memorandum undermines the very purposes Congress sought to advance.

It was great to visit Chestnut Health Systems Dental Clinic in Bloomington—one of the clinics helping to expand access to quality, affordable dental care for Illinoisans.

Anyone who has ever experienced the pain of a toothache knows that oral health care is not a luxury. It is essential. But for too many Illinoisans, dental care is out of reach.

And thank you to the Excel Center for their work and commitment to Illinois’ first adult high school. This school was built on a simple but important idea: that it’s never too late to invest in someone’s potential and give them a real…

Congratulations to today’s graduating class—you have sent a powerful message to your children and loved ones here today: that learning is a lifelong commitment, and you had the courage to take that leap.

The Department of Justice must end this corrupt money grab by publicly committing that it will not pursue any other such compensation fund and that it will vigorously defend taxpayers in any January 6-related lawsuits.

Today, 60 new Americans from 25 countries took an oath that binds us all—not by birth, but by shared belief in our country's promise. My own mother came to this country as a two-year-old refugee from Lithuania, and I keep her…

This summit is an opportunity for us, in the United States Congress, to reiterate we stand with the alliance.

I fear the President’s foreign policy positions and past comments on NATO have damaged our longstanding transatlantic relationship.

The United States has been a proud member of NATO for decades—a united group that formed from the ashes of two horrific wars in Europe, with many newer members eventually joining after decades of Soviet oppression.