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Matthew Harvey
@matthewharvey· NH· Jul 6, 2026

Financial fraud schemes erode trust and cause real harm to victims who believed they were helping someone in need.

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Mike Johnson
@mikejohnson· Republican · LA· Jul 6, 2026

What we’re planning to do is send over a bill that will be irresistible for any Republican.

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Pete Hoekstra
@petehoekstra· MI· Jul 6, 2026

I’m not going to get a directive, I don’t believe, from the President of the United States, from our Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, that says, ‘Pete, go out there and do what you can to advocate for, secession or for the people of…

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Pete Hoekstra
@petehoekstra· MI· Jul 6, 2026

I think at this point in time, we’ve made it very clear we are not going to take a position on that.

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Pete Hoekstra
@petehoekstra· MI· Jul 6, 2026

No, we’re not meeting with the separatists and strategizing this at all.

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Jul 6, 2026

You can’t have a statewide school funding system that is fair to everyone — that’s equitable, that covers all costs of education, so that every student, no matter where they live, is treated the same, and every taxpayer treated the same —…

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Jul 6, 2026

The difference is you’ll be increasing education funding and distributing it through a formula that’s fair and equitable, and ensure that every student in Rhode Island has access to what they need to be successful.

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Jul 6, 2026

What we’ve said to the General Assembly is you’re going to have to have a transition plan that takes that into account.

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Jul 6, 2026

Secretly, I was always hoping I would be surprised it would move really quickly, but as a practical matter, I knew that was not the case.

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Jul 6, 2026

The future economic prosperity of our state is directly dependent on our ability to get this right.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jul 6, 2026

Although a federal judge has enjoined the slush fund, there are other plans to undermine the American justice system to pay out January 6 rioters, including those convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers.

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Becca Balint
@beccabalint· Democratic · VT· Jul 6, 2026

We urge the administration to work to empower the Lebanese government and to fund the Lebanese Armed Forces to pursue Hezbollah’s full demilitarization and disarmament.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jul 6, 2026

This resolution rejects hateful policies that terrorize our immigrant neighbors and calls on the Senate to invest in inclusion, celebrate the contributions of immigrants, and honor our nation’s human rights commitments.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jul 6, 2026

I won’t stop until we roll back all of the cuts to our social safety net and reverse the billionaire tax cuts.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Jul 6, 2026

Donald Trump is the most unpopular president in the recent history of this country. And so he is trying to rig the election in part by creating this national…

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Jul 6, 2026

We just choose not to because we've become okay with dozens and dozens of people in this country making hundreds of billions of dollars.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Jul 6, 2026

In the most affluent, most powerful country in the world, if you work full time, you should be able to pay your bills.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jul 6, 2026

The question on this anniversary is whether we have the wisdom and the courage to keep it. I hope today’s hearing rises to that challenge.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jul 6, 2026

That is not the rule of law. That is weaponization. That is corruption not behind closed doors. And it is precisely what the Founders feared when they built this republic.

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Jul 6, 2026

OMB’s proposal unlawfully seeks to substitute Congress’s role in directing federal spending with the President’s preferred priorities, and in doing so, makes it harder for every community and organization in the United States to fairly…

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Jul 6, 2026

Rather than focusing on fulfilling the statutory purposes of a grant program, applicants and recipients will be forced to play an endless guessing game, trying to determine which of their activities may or may not run afoul of OMB’s…

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