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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· May 3, 2025

We can, if Republicans will stop, you know, rolling over for this President. We can actually rescue this program.

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· May 3, 2025

He should never have been nominated in the first place. He is the most untrained, inadequate, Secretary of Defense in our nation's history.

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Nikema Williams
@nikemawilliams· Democratic · GA· May 3, 2025

This administration is withholding funding left and right to anything that has to do with Black people, Indigenous people, Latino people.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· May 3, 2025

I want to applaud Harvard University for having the guts to stand up to them.

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Chip Roy
@chiproy· Republican · TX· May 2, 2025

The president has unlocked America’s energy potential, or at least taken a giant step to do so.

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Chip Roy
@chiproy· Republican · TX· May 2, 2025

If the House budget reconciliation package does not include structural Medicaid reform that achieves desired Republican outcomes, we will be setting up massive tax increases and benefit cuts in the future.

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Chip Roy
@chiproy· Republican · TX· May 2, 2025

If other states don’t like California’s approach, they don’t need to follow it…But Congress shouldn’t intervene.

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Shri Thanedar
@shrithanedar· Democratic · MI· May 2, 2025

my duty to my constituents is that I speak out when injustice happens and not wait for what is politically right or what’s the opportune time to do it.

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Doris Matsui
@dorismatsui· Democratic · CA· May 2, 2025

California emission standards are a matter of life and death.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· May 2, 2025

I don’t think anything went wrong. We just needed more votes.

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Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· May 2, 2025

It gives California unilateral authority to cram its ‘comply or die’ zero-emission truck rule down the throats of every American.

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Tulsi Gabbard
@tulsigabbard· Democratic · HI· May 2, 2025

25% smaller and more lean today than when I walked in the door

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Mike Pompeo
@mikepompeo· Republican · KS· May 2, 2025

Russia’s attempted annexation of Crimea.

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Haley Stevens
@haleystevens· Democratic · MI· May 1, 2025

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize an incredible individual who has taken from this world far too soon, my dear friend, Molly McGovern, the daughter of our colleague Congressman Jim McGovern and his beautiful wife, Lisa, and the sister…

Congressional Record · 2025-05-01
Mike Levin
@mikelevin· Democratic · CA· May 1, 2025

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to support California's right to clean air. Growing up in southern California in the 1980s, smog alerts were a regular part of life. A lap around the track at school and your chest would burn. We can't go back to…

Congressional Record · 2025-05-01
David Schweikert
@davidschweikert· Republican · AZ· May 1, 2025

Mr. Speaker, as always, I apologize to the bored staff, and I will try not to speak like a machine gun. Mr. Speaker, we are going to do basically three things. I am going to make fun of us. I am going to actually walk through some debt and…

Congressional Record · 2025-05-01
David Schweikert
@davidschweikert· Republican · AZ· May 1, 2025

Mr. Speaker, most of this was designed in the late sixties. I have this weird history. I was a child--in my early twenties. I was a temporary page at the State legislature. Arizona was the last State to enter Medicaid. It was bankrupting…

Congressional Record · 2025-05-01