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Ced[ing] American car-industry dominance to China.
Radical Republicans had gone nuclear on the Senate rule book.
Millions will lose coverage, hospitals will close, and safety nets could collapse under the weight.
--vulnerable children, people with disabilities, and all the rest will lose their healthcare. Rural hospitals will be closed. Millions of jobs will be destroyed across America, and all of this to give another massive tax cut to the richest…
The U.S. Marshals are central to preserving our democracy and upholding the rule of law. Marshals must be able to protect all judges, enforce all court orders and have the independence necessary to do their jobs.
We don't think it's an appropriate use of the Congressional Review Act, and we're prepared to defend ourselves if it's wrongfully weaponized.
They are trying to scare us, but we will not be scared away.
I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency, and it won’t affect people’s health or their water, their air. That, to me, is a big fiction.
If you’re successful in eliminating half of our efforts to clean our water and our air, your legacy will be more lung cancer, it’ll be more bladder cancer, it’ll be more head and neck cancer, it’ll be more breast cancer, it’ll be more…
There have been dozens of times where Republicans have gotten opinions from the GAO. This is just their way of trying to put a favorable spin on breaking their word.
You can actually use that money, tens of millions of dollars, to hire more cops for your communities that will keep you safer than a partner at a big law firm in D.C. getting paid to monitor you.
Specifics of policing, policy, hiring, training, management, promotion and internal policies are best made at a local level, where there's local accountability, and local control over funding and policy issues.
Today, we are ending the Biden Civil Rights Division's failed experiment of handcuffing local leaders and police departments with factually unjustified consent decrees.
Overbroad police consent decrees divest local control of policing from communities where it belongs, turning that power over to unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats, often with an anti-police agenda.