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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Sep 25, 2026

Amidst an alarming increase in antisemitism, Islamophobia and other forms of toxic hate, Team Maryland is surging more than $8.6 million in federal Nonprofit Security Grants to protect our people.

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Andy Harris
@andyharris· Republican · MD· Sep 25, 2026

Marylanders should be able to practice their faith without worrying about their safety.

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Kweisi Mfume
@kweisimfume· Democratic · MD· Sep 25, 2026

No matter what your faith or religion is every American should feel safe and secure in their ability to worship peacefully.

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Sep 25, 2026

Every Marylander deserves to be able to exercise their right to religious freedom and worship without fear for their safety.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 25, 2026

If the notion here is to gather accurate information so we don’t make the mistake that led up to your incarceration, there was a failure here. A complete failure and misuse of the information.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 25, 2026

Thank you for raising that point because it is not a matter of just reading license plates. That seems so routine, but it comes to the point where you can identify and recognize the people in the car.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 25, 2026

We are concerned in Illinois with Operation Midway Blitz, where ICE and the Department of Homeland Security came into our state and started looking for people to deport… It turned out that the majority of people they were deporting were…

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Sep 25, 2026

Yesterday’s consultation reinforces our sense that the Administration has turned America’s traditional refugee program into a whites-only airplane ride for South African Afrikaners into Trump’s America.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 25, 2026

The Trump Administration’s agenda is clear: prioritize white-only Afrikaners as refugees and disregard the millions of men, women, and children from around the world who are trying to escape horrific violence and persecution.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 25, 2026

We must act to address this national tragedy. I’m introducing the CARE for Moms Act to provide more comprehensive and culturally competent maternal and postpartum health care for mothers, especially women of color, and their babies.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 25, 2026

In the U.S., Black women are three times more likely to die as a result of their pregnancy. It is unacceptable that in this country we are losing mothers and their babies to deaths that could have been prevented with the right…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 25, 2026

The rule of law to democracy is like oxygen to a human body …If you don’t have it, you have either anarchy or you have authoritarianism.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 25, 2026

President Trump has already taken a wrecking ball to the White House.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 25, 2026

But to try to draw a moral equivalence between the misdeeds of the Biden Administration and the current Administration is ludicrous…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 25, 2026

Putting together the questions for a deposition of Donald Trump Jr. is not going to take more than a week, is it?

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 25, 2026

If we ignore this matter in the Senate Judiciary Committee, we run the risk of being complicit in this coverup.

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Gary Peters
@garypeters· Democratic · MI· Sep 25, 2026

This report demonstrates exactly why the American people are demanding accountability for ICE.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 25, 2026

This report has uncovered more of what we’ve come to expect from the Trump Administration—cavalier and wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars without any benefit to the American people.

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Sep 25, 2026

“I’m grateful that last spring I was able to help secure the release of military spouse Deisy Rivera Ortega from ICE detention after she was arrested with no warrant and no explanation. But she should never have been in that situation in…

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Sep 25, 2026

“The Trump Administration’s actions are inhumane, and they’re disastrous from a national security perspective. We don’t need our troops who are heading into a firefight to be worried about whether their husband or wife is going to get…

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Sep 25, 2026

“It’s a betrayal to our heroes to have a family member detained or deported by the same nation they sacrificed to defend. No servicemember should be forced to choose between fulfilling their military obligations and protecting their…

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Mike Waltz
@mikewaltz· FL· Sep 25, 2026

The president is absolutely within his rights to limit journalists to government facilities, particularly when, in his opinion, they’re not behaving as good-faith journalists.

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