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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Oct 11, 2022

I have an amendment to the substitute, and I ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. King). The clerk will report. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. Reed]…

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Oct 11, 2022

I submit amendments on behalf of other Senators. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendments will be received. (The amendments are printed in today's Record under ``Text of Amendments.'')

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Jim Langevin
@jimlangevin· Democratic · RI· Oct 2, 2022

The best disinfectant really to combat antisemitism is sunlight and accountability.

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Sep 29, 2022

I thank the chairman again for yielding. I just want to make clear, once again, that this bill does not appropriate money to the FTC, and I think the chairman of the Judiciary Committee and I will continue to advocate for more funding. But…

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Sep 29, 2022

we all recognize that a postsecondary education is often the key to a family-sustaining, middle-class job. We also know that an educated workforce is essential to a modern, productive economy. However, our system that relies on student…

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Sep 29, 2022

literacy opens the door for lifelong opportunity and economic success. But in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have a lot of work to do to help kids catch up. The National Assessment of Education Progress results show the…

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Sep 29, 2022

I say again, this is about supporting competition with some very commonsense proposals that have strong bipartisan support in both Chambers. We can finally let Big Tech know that the time in which they can do whatever they want and…

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Sep 29, 2022

I thank the chairman for yielding. H.R. 3843 is a modest yet critical first step to modernizing the antitrust laws. It generates revenue; it makes foreign adversarial interests in transactions more apparent; and it allows more streamlined…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Sep 27, 2022

So we take a certain amount of pride in the Brownfields Program around Rhode Island, because it has good Rhode Island fingerprints all over it.

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Sep 23, 2022

They are in a quest for power at all costs. They`re promoting the big lie. Still, they`re undermining democracy.

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Sep 23, 2022

I think it would be obviously very, very alarming for anyone who cares about our democracy and cares about the freedoms that we enjoy as citizens of this great country.

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Sep 23, 2022

There is no question they will move forward.

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Sep 23, 2022

If you care about your vote being counted, and us remaining a democracy, you cannot vote for a Republican.

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Sep 23, 2022

We don`t have to wonder whether or not Kevin McCarthy, if the Speaker of the House, will actually certify an election that Donald Trump ran and lost because we already know he did it.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Sep 22, 2022

for the Committee on Armed Services I report favorably the following nomination lists which were printed in the Records on the dates indicated, and ask unanimous consent, to save the expense of reprinting on the Executive Calendar that…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Sep 22, 2022

I thank the Senator from Hawaii, who has been such an ardent and effective ally in this fight, for coming to the floor today and for all of our work in the Judiciary Committee and also through briefs that we file in the Supreme Court…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Sep 22, 2022

the place where I left off, when Senator Thune came to the floor, was discussing the extent to which huge floods of dark money had taken control of our Supreme Court. I will just dig into that a little bit further while we have a moment…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Sep 22, 2022

I understand that Senator Thune is next in order on the floor, but not seeing him on the floor, I thought I would take the time before he arrives to echo the terrific remarks of my Judiciary chairman, Dick Durbin. As I think people know, a…

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