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Mike Rounds
@mikerounds· Republican · SD· Jan 18, 2021

I think sometimes their offer of assistance to a contrary is seen as a first step in where, later on, they will start asking for small favors and then move into more demands.

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Mike Rounds
@mikerounds· Republican · SD· Jan 18, 2021

Algeria has supported the political process led by the U.N. and by the U.N. Secretary General's personal envoy for Western Sahara.

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Mike Rounds
@mikerounds· Republican · SD· Jan 18, 2021

If we keep up business as usual we will give China a free pass to use that leverage to export its model of authoritarianism.

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Mike Rounds
@mikerounds· Republican · SD· Jan 18, 2021

I am concerned about, I guess, the ongoing and, in some cases, increasing Chinese and Russian engagement in the Western Hemisphere.

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Jan 18, 2021

Republicans traditionally have believed that we ought to reduce spending; that we need to reform entitlement programs.

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Jan 18, 2021

The massive amount of debt that we continue to rack up as a Nation.

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Jan 1, 2021

I think the Washington Post editorial board, in most cases, has been very sympathetic to the argument of the Senator from Vermont.

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Jan 1, 2021

Well, very simply, what you are suggesting--what you are saying here is that the owner of the Washington Post, who said this is really bad policy and shouldn't be done in this way at the end of this year--is that what you are saying? That…

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Jan 1, 2021

I have not seen the Tax Policy Center, but I know math, and I know as a basic principle that when you stick bigger numbers in there and you are using the same formula to phase something out, you are going to make it available to people who…

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Jan 1, 2021

So if the same formula is used, and you are increasing the amount by $1,400 per person--so you are going from, basically, for a family of four, what would be a $2,400 payment to an $8,000 payment, and you phase that down using the same…

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Jan 1, 2021

The Senator from Illinois makes a good point. Would the Senator yield for a question?

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Dec 22, 2020

The challenge of Biden going down will go down like a shot dog

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Dec 22, 2020

Any effort to overturn the election will fall like a shot dog

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Dusty Johnson
@dustyjohnson· Republican · SD· Dec 21, 2020

I think it was Winston Churchill who said you can always count on Americans to do the right thing after they have exhausted all other options. You know, Congress looks that way to me from time to time. This is not the process or the…

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Dec 19, 2020

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Alexander), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Blunt), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), the Senator from Wyoming (Mr…

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Dec 14, 2020

At some point, you have to face the music. And I think once the Electoral College settles the issue today, it's time for everybody to move on.

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Dusty Johnson
@dustyjohnson· Republican · SD· Dec 8, 2020

I think we all know too well that there are chapters in our nation's history particularly related to race that are not a source of pride...

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