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Joaquin Castro
@joaquincastro· Democratic · TX· Jan 17, 2024

We should be supporting these entrepreneurial efforts, not stifling them.

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Joaquin Castro
@joaquincastro· Democratic · TX· Jan 17, 2024

The embargo on Cuba has not only failed to advance U.S. interests but has had devastating humanitarian effects.

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Joaquin Castro
@joaquincastro· Democratic · TX· Jan 17, 2024

We must remove Cuba from the SSOT and end this baseless, extremely harmful designation.

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Joaquin Castro
@joaquincastro· Democratic · TX· Jan 17, 2024

I believe that the best way to achieve these goals is through a renewed approach to our engagement with the island, an approach that recognizes that our policies over the last 60 years have not resulted in the changes we would like to see.

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Joaquin Castro
@joaquincastro· Democratic · TX· Jan 17, 2024

I stand with the Cuban people in their fight for a government and society that protects human rights, advances democracy, and promotes economic development.

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Joaquin Castro
@joaquincastro· Democratic · TX· Jan 17, 2024

You're suppressing somebody from even sitting here and participating in the same way that the Cuban government has suppressed opinion and perspective for decades.

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Joaquin Castro
@joaquincastro· Democratic · TX· Jan 17, 2024

It would still represent a kind of transformation to a market-based economy, at least more than what you've seen right now.

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Joaquin Castro
@joaquincastro· Democratic · TX· Jan 17, 2024

This is the creation of a market-based economy, the beginnings of it at least?

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Joaquin Castro
@joaquincastro· Democratic · TX· Jan 17, 2024

This move to not allow one of our colleagues in the U.S. Congress who's been elected by the people she represents to sit and participate on a panel like this is, I think, unprecedented.

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Ted Cruz
@tedcruz· Republican · TX· Jan 16, 2024

I believe rehabilitation should continue to be an aspiration of our criminal justice system, and certainly that was my reason for my support for the First Step Act.

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John Cornyn
@johncornyn· Republican · TX· Jan 16, 2024

It passed a Republican-led Senate, 87 to 12. It passed a Republican-led House, 358 to 36.

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John Cornyn
@johncornyn· Republican · TX· Jan 16, 2024

We aimed to reduce recidivism rates and prevent formerly incarcerated people from landing behind bars again.

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John Cornyn
@johncornyn· Republican · TX· Jan 16, 2024

The First Step Act has been quite a success.

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Ted Cruz
@tedcruz· Republican · TX· Jan 16, 2024

The border obviously is not secure as long as drugs like fentanyl, that took the lives of 71,000 Americans last year alone, continue to flow into the United States and into our communities, across our State and Nation.

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J. Todd Rutherford
@jtoddrutherford· TX· Jan 16, 2024

She spent her entire governorship would six years trying to act as if race did not matter until all of a sudden it did.

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Mike Cloud
@mikecloud· Republican · TX· Jan 16, 2024

The executive branch has one job, and that is to enforce the laws of the land, not to make the laws of the land.

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Mike Cloud
@mikecloud· Republican · TX· Jan 16, 2024

These men and women, their morale is in the toilet. They are doing everything they can.

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Mike Cloud
@mikecloud· Republican · TX· Jan 16, 2024

The wall works. The wall takes the most vulnerable people, women, and children who cannot get over that wall.

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