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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 19, 2023

No one can tell us with a straight face that Ms. Su is unqualified for this position.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 19, 2023

Over 60 percent of our people are living paycheck to paycheck and millions are working for starvation wages.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Apr 19, 2023

It is immensely beneficial if there can be flexibility. No. 2, there is hell to pay when the flexibility leads to no accountability.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Apr 19, 2023

We need a Labor Secretary who will strongly enforce the child labor laws that are on the books.

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John Rose
@johnrose· Republican · VT· Apr 18, 2023

I want to just say I could not more strongly disagree that with a pending ruling from the Supreme Court, that the issuance--I believe the untimely issuance of this rule is counterproductive and just provides a greater level of confusion on…

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Eli Crane
@elicrane· Republican · VT· Apr 18, 2023

We have drafted articles of impeachment to remove Secretary Mayorkas for his dereliction of duty.

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Eli Crane
@elicrane· Republican · VT· Apr 18, 2023

What we are hung up about is how you all Day 1 in office came in and changed policies and started getting rid of infrastructure that was keeping our States, our counties, and our cities safe.

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Eli Crane
@elicrane· Republican · VT· Apr 18, 2023

You know what? Me and this gentleman right here went on a helicopter tour down in Texas where we flew around the border, and guess what we saw? Piles of steel just stacked up on the ground, like he said, of a wall that the American…

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John Rose
@johnrose· Republican · VT· Apr 18, 2023

I could not more strongly disagree that with a pending ruling from the Supreme Court, that the issuance--I believe the untimely issuance of this rule is counterproductive and just provides a greater level of confusion on what was already a…

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David Roe
@davidroe· Republican · VT· Apr 14, 2023

As long as I am in the Congress I will never vote to see the VA do a major project again.

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David Roe
@davidroe· Republican · VT· Apr 14, 2023

It is embarrassing to me to go home and to look those folks in the eye who work as hard as they do and write the checks they do to see this big of a disaster, financial disaster.

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David Roe
@davidroe· Republican · VT· Apr 14, 2023

If you were, you wouldn't behave like this. And nobody would spend their own money like this.

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David Roe
@davidroe· Republican · VT· Apr 14, 2023

Today is a significant day in America, it is April 15th, and a lot of hardworking taxpayers are sending checks off today.

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Becca Balint
@beccabalint· Democratic · VT· Mar 30, 2023

This week I have heard from grandfathers, moms, students, and even from my Uber driver the other night, all asking some version of the same question, which is, how can we continue to allow our children to get murdered in their schools…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 29, 2023

I commend the Committee for holding this hearing to show that you take seriously the rights of Starbucks workers to organize.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 29, 2023

I believe that labor unions play an important role in protecting that bedrock principle.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Mar 29, 2023

It is a bedrock of our democracy that the law applies to everyone, including the most powerful.

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