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Henry Johnson
@henryjohnson· Republican · LA· Jan 10, 2026

U.S. military action against Denmark in Greenland would not be appropriate.

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Timothy Walz
@timothywalz· Democratic · MN· Jan 10, 2026

You're seeing that we have a ridiculous surge of apparently 2,000 people not coordinating with us, that are for a show of cameras.

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Henry Johnson
@henryjohnson· Republican · LA· Jan 10, 2026

I don't think anybody's seriously considering that. And in the Congress, we're certainly not.

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Timothy Walz
@timothywalz· Democratic · MN· Jan 10, 2026

we've spent years cracking down on fraudsters

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Maxwell Frost
@maxwellfrost· Democratic · FL· Jan 10, 2026

We've been warning about this for an entire year

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jan 10, 2026

While I am confident that the courts will strike down Trump's illegal power grab, Congress has a responsibility to assert its legislative authority and block this Executive Order

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Terri Sewell
@terrisewell· Democratic · AL· Jan 10, 2026

For so many of us here today, Section 2 is why we stand before you as members of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Daniel Meuser
@danielmeuser· Republican · PA· Jan 10, 2026

Things are still being hashed out. There's always the details -- the so-called devil's in the details, or maybe the angel's in the details

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Jan 10, 2026

After Republicans forced Jack Smith into a backroom interrogation and rejected our calls for an open public hearing, now they decide they want a public hearing with Jack Smith after all.

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Henry Johnson
@henryjohnson· Republican · LA· Jan 10, 2026

The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war — that is true — but it also vests the president of the United States with vast authorities as commander in chief.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Jan 10, 2026

I certainly was among those who, 12 months ago or six months ago, dismissed his talk of taking over Greenland as an intentional distraction.

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Jan 10, 2026

This upcoming hearing is a win for truth-seeking Americans and yet another looming humiliation for Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans, who depend on a daily diet of lies to keep their Administration afloat.

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Henry Johnson
@henryjohnson· Republican · LA· Jan 10, 2026

We are not at war. We do not have U.S. armed forces in Venezuela, and we are not occupying that country.

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Ro Khanna
@rokhanna· Democratic · CA· Jan 10, 2026

The survivors and the public demand transparency and justice.

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Vicente Gonzalez
@vicentegonzalez· Democratic · TX· Jan 10, 2026

I'm not completely against deportations, but the way they're handling it is a real disgrace

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Henry Johnson
@henryjohnson· Republican · LA· Jan 10, 2026

Look, I can tell you, as speaker of the House, as the person who's in charge of defending Article I powers, I'm just going to insist to you that those have not been traversed in any way by what happened here.

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