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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Jun 23, 2025

Senate Republicans tried to write Donald Trump’s contempt for the courts into law — gutting judicial enforcement, defying the Constitution, and bulldozing the very rule of law that forms our democracy.

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Troy Carter
@troycarter· Democratic · LA· Jun 23, 2025

I'm insulted that you would suggest that there aren't lives that have been lost. People are dying every day, sir.

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Rob Garcia
@robgarcia· Democratic · KS· Jun 23, 2025

I am incredibly honored to have been obviously elected the ranking member for the Oversight Committee.

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Thomas Massie
@thomasmassie· Republican · KY· Jun 23, 2025

There was no imminent threat to the United States, which was what would authorize that. And I think that’s peculiar to hear that from the speaker of the House.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Jun 23, 2025

It was nothing short of an assault on the system of checks and balances that has anchored this nation since its founding, and a brazen attempt crown Trump king.

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Frank Pallone
@frankpallone· Democratic · NJ· Jun 23, 2025

The bottom line is here: We have no transparency. ... You feel no responsibility to Congress whatsoever, and you just continue this ideology that’s anti-science, anti-vaccine.

msnbc.com
Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Jun 23, 2025

The War Powers Act is ‘unconstitutional.’

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Frank Pallone
@frankpallone· Democratic · NJ· Jun 23, 2025

You have made a number of major decisions about vaccines. And … there’s been no public comment process or public accountability on that either. What are you afraid of?

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Jun 23, 2025

Under President Trump's leadership, we are working at turbo speed on cost-effective and innovative ways to deliver on the American people's mandate for mass deportations of criminal illegal aliens.

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Jared Moskowitz
@jaredmoskowitz· Democratic · NC· Jun 23, 2025

I've always held that Iran cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon. That has been US policy throughout Democratic and Republican Administrations, and it is my hope that Iran no longer has the capabilities to continue its nuclear…

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Jun 23, 2025

no president should be allowed to unilaterally march this nation into something as consequential as war.

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Ro Khanna
@rokhanna· Democratic · CA· Jun 23, 2025

The Libya attacks were blatantly unconstitutional. Those strikes were also counterproductive.

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Ro Khanna
@rokhanna· Democratic · CA· Jun 23, 2025

He can simply say to Netanyahu, 'Stop,' and then we can convene the Palestinians, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Israel to have a solution in Palestine.

democracynow.org
Pramila Jayapal
@pramilajayapal· Democratic · WA· Jun 23, 2025

This is horrific, unacceptable violence by ICE—an increasingly rogue agency with zero respect for the law.

commondreams.org
Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Jun 23, 2025

The President fully respects the Article I power of Congress, and tonight’s necessary, limited, and targeted strike follows the history and tradition of similar military actions under presidents of both parties.

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Al Green
@algreen· Democratic · TX· Jun 23, 2025

I believe that the hour of decision is upon us, and we all have to decide are we going to go down and choose the path of democracy or we allow ourselves to choose the low road of autocracy?

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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Jun 23, 2025

necessary, limited and targeted strike follows the history and tradition of similar military actions under presidents of both parties.

nypost.com