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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Sep 25, 2026

“We don’t have to accept the transition from in-person connection to online isolation. Massive social media platforms knowingly addict us to screens and harm our kids to boost their profits. These big tech companies have gotten a free pass…

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Sep 25, 2026

This resolution is a chance for this body to end the war. And so we are pleading once again, maybe the 10th time that we've had a resolution like this, for our colleagues to join us.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Sep 25, 2026

The people, whether they're Republicans, independents, or Democrats, are telling us loudly and unequivocally, end this war.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Sep 25, 2026

Support for this war is at 18% in this country. We are supposed to be a democratic body that listens to the will of the people.

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Danny Davis
@dannydavis· Democratic · IL· Sep 25, 2026

Considering the significant health challenges that sickle cell disease creates for individuals and families across the United States and around the world, we must invest greater resources in improving awareness, expanding access to…

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

Sickle cell disease has claimed the lives of too many people far too soon, including a former staff member of mine, John Amara.

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April McClain Delaney
@aprilmcclaindelaney· Democratic · MD· Sep 25, 2026

Whether you are walking into a church, synagogue, mosque, temple, or community center, you should never have to fear for your safety.

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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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