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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 20, 2026

Today, we reflect not only on what happened in our nation’s past, but what we must recommit ourselves to in the future.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 20, 2026

The best we can do now is end this war as soon as possible by approving Trump’s pitiful MoU.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 20, 2026

Now, Trump has replaced the 2018 Iran deal with a Memorandum of Understanding that caves to Iran’s demands.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 20, 2026

The United States had a nuclear deal with Iran in 2015, and it was working. President Trump abandoned it in 2018 for no good reason.

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Elaine Luria
@elaineluria· Democratic · VA· Jun 20, 2026

At first, I thought, well, you know, you elect people to Congress, they make important decisions. Don’t you trust them? And will you trust them with personal finances? And I came to see that, over time, really everything that Congress is…

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Elaine Luria
@elaineluria· Democratic · VA· Jun 20, 2026

I will say that this is an issue where I’ve changed my opinion over time. I will support the STOCK Act.

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Tom Emmer
@tomemmer· Republican · MN· Jun 20, 2026

The legacy of Tim Walz will be the fires that destroyed Minneapolis, the fraud that he allowed to be stolen under his watch, and his failures that have harmed our great state.

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Chellie Pingree
@chelliepingree· Democratic · ME· Jun 19, 2026

We actually have had a few meetings with the Forest Service, but they’re extremely vague, and our experience has been that even the heads of departments and services don’t always know what (the Office of Management and Budget) and the…

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Jun 19, 2026

Any senior official who was responsible for those decisions, who doesn’t very openly and plainly acknowledge how wrong they were … then you should not have a role in any future Democratic administration.

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Jun 19, 2026

A Democratic presidential candidate should believe in a United States foreign policy, but cannot apply one set of standards against China for human rights abuses, for example, while not applying the same standard to the Israeli government…

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Jun 19, 2026

If you’re asking me whether I think Democrats need to shake things up, you bet I do. I visited New Hampshire, kind of kicking the tires a little bit.

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Jun 19, 2026

At Delaney Hall, we learned of unsanitary living conditions, lack of adequate medical care and unhealthy food.

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Mikie Sherrill
@mikiesherrill· Democratic · NJ· Jun 19, 2026

It’s set to kick 350,000 New Jerseyans off Medicaid by introducing totally unnecessary paperwork requirements. Nearly 50,000 New Jerseyans could lose SNAP benefits,

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Mikie Sherrill
@mikiesherrill· Democratic · NJ· Jun 19, 2026

We know that the school meals are one of the best, most direct ways to help kids get the nutrition they need to succeed in school and to build healthy lives. And they save eligible families an average of $1,200 a year in grocery costs as…

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Marsha Blackburn
@marshablackburn· Republican · TN· Jun 19, 2026

Anti-ICE organizations shouldn’t get a penny of taxpayer money. O’Connell needs to learn how to put Tennesseans first.

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John Rose
@johnrose· Republican · VT· Jun 19, 2026

Senator Blackburn is doing a disservice to the citizens of Tennessee by refusing to debate. We deserve a governor who doesn’t hide from the voters in their basement and who is not afraid to discuss the issues that are important to our…

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Andre Carson
@andrecarson· Democratic · IN· Jun 19, 2026

These cufflinks are a reminder to future generations of Congress’ role in shaping a country that is by the people, with the people and for the people.

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Chellie Pingree
@chelliepingree· Democratic · ME· Jun 19, 2026

There’s just not a lot of places to turn, and with huge budget impacts hitting everybody next year, I’m really worried about what’s going to happen with programs like this.

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Chellie Pingree
@chelliepingree· Democratic · ME· Jun 19, 2026

It just seems like it would be a horrific time to lose those research capacities and also give up the body of research that we already have.

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Pramila Jayapal
@pramilajayapal· Democratic · WA· Jun 19, 2026

Heywood wants to bring the hate that they’ve been trying to spread in Congress, and across the country into Washington state.

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