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Don Bacon
@donbacon· Republican · NE· Aug 16, 2026

I think it's better to acknowledge, hey, this is hard on the families, it's hard on the service members.

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Don Bacon
@donbacon· Republican · NE· Aug 16, 2026

I think he was being honest. And I think he was setting maybe false expectations...

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Don Bacon
@donbacon· Republican · NE· Aug 16, 2026

I think we still have the advantage, but we have to be patient.

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Cynthia Lummis
@cynthialummis· Republican · WY· Aug 16, 2026

Some community banks are suggesting stablecoins are driving deposit flight. The data says otherwise: BofA shows household deposits rising across income groups this year, and the FDIC reports domestic deposits grew for a seventh straight…

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John Curtis
@johncurtis· Republican · UT· Aug 16, 2026

I want to support crypto, I like crypto. I also like my banks.

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Don Bacon
@donbacon· Republican · NE· Aug 16, 2026

We should have oversight. We should bring in secretary of the Navy and/or the commander, the – the service chief of the Navy, and have them explain to us the truth on that.

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Don Bacon
@donbacon· Republican · NE· Aug 16, 2026

I think it's better just to acknowledge, hey, this is a problem, and we got – we got to work towards getting wages climbing faster than inflation.

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Aug 16, 2026

What I’m excited about are the candidates who are running to flip seats in November, to deliver us a majority that pushes back against Donald Trump’s extremism and moves the country in the right direction.

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Aug 16, 2026

Well, listen, I don’t support the DSA agenda as has been articulated by the DSA itself.

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Aug 16, 2026

Well, what I can say is that I do not support defunding the police. I do not support open borders. I do support abolishing the Senate.

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Don Bacon
@donbacon· Republican · NE· Aug 16, 2026

I think Republicans could reclaim the middle if we push back more on tariffs.

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Don Bacon
@donbacon· Republican · NE· Aug 16, 2026

We still have the advantage, but we have to be patient.

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Don Bacon
@donbacon· Republican · NE· Aug 16, 2026

I think it would have been better to acknowledge, hey, long deployments are hard.

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Don Bacon
@donbacon· Republican · NE· Aug 16, 2026

I think most Americans are feeling the pain at the grocery store and the gas.

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Don Bacon
@donbacon· Republican · NE· Aug 16, 2026

I think he was setting maybe false expectations in the previous months... This is going to be a longer term fight.

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Martin Heinrich
@martinheinrich· Democratic · NM· Aug 16, 2026

These equity acquisitions also create potential conflicts of interest for federal agencies because a significant portion of the planned mining operations are located on federal lands.

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Martin Heinrich
@martinheinrich· Democratic · NM· Aug 16, 2026

The government’s expanded use of these new financial tools has raised concerns that we request the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) examine, including whether and how the federal government is assessing financial risks…

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Tammy Baldwin
@tammybaldwin· Democratic · WI· Aug 16, 2026

Countless researchers who have devoted their careers to improving healthcare for all of us have watched years of painstaking work and hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer investments destroyed overnight.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Aug 16, 2026

There is no evidence, no evidence, zero evidence in this country that there is a problem at scale with people faking their identification in elections.

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Josh Riley
@joshriley· NY· Aug 16, 2026

Upstate New Yorkers know winter doesn’t wait, and neither can the crews keeping our runways clear and passengers safe.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Aug 16, 2026

Senate Democrats continue to support the full repeal of Republicans’ disastrous Medicaid cuts and stand united in calling on the Trump Administration to withdraw this harmful rule.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Aug 16, 2026

It is families who will suffer, especially the sickest Americans, like those with mental health and substance use disorders, cancer, and diabetes, who most urgently need the health care Medicaid provides.

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Ro Khanna
@rokhanna· Democratic · CA· Aug 16, 2026

If our party cannot stand for these principles, it will never convince a generation that watched the horrors of Gaza on their iPhones that we mean what we say about justice.

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Ro Khanna
@rokhanna· Democratic · CA· Aug 16, 2026

Zero aid to Israel," Khanna declared Saturday. "No military sales of weapons used to kill civilians. And let me be clear: If our party cannot stand for these principles, it will never convince a generation that watched the horrors of Gaza…

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