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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Feb 5, 2025

I was like, now we are cooking. He was like, I want another EO to just say it was Biden's fault. That is like when they admitted that what they are doing is when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. They understand that…

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Feb 5, 2025

As happened in 2017. They couldn't even do the things that they promised they were going to do, except for the tax cuts. So I think they understand the fundamental weakness of their position, which is we have a President who is likely to…

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Feb 5, 2025

Or pardon everyone in the January 6 event. You know this, and you have talked about this on the floor.

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Feb 5, 2025

Last week, without any advanced notice, OMB issued a memo freezing all Federal funding in order to end wokeness, ``Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies.'' Like, I just want to--we can pause right…

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Feb 5, 2025

Can I say one thing about--I did not know that this whole Senate is powered on Celsius. I never had Celsius before. I was walking around offering people coffee, and everyone had a Celsius.

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Feb 5, 2025

Before you came on, Senator Kim talked about taking on the New Jersey political machine. Political machines everywhere work pretty much the same. If you behave well, you get your stuff. And pork is distributed based on political alliances…

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Feb 5, 2025

I vote no for the 400,000 people in Hawaii who depend on Medicaid. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XII, no debate is permitted during a vote. The Senator will suspend. The clerk will continue to call the roll. The legislative clerk…

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Feb 5, 2025

They would get--I was about to swear. It is the Senate floor. I will not. But they would get canned. They would get immediately sacked.

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Feb 5, 2025

I just want to drill down on why the profit motive is so dangerous to public service. If you are in the business of trying to figure out where to drop a Starbucks or whatever, you have got to figure out where the people are, right? You…

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Feb 5, 2025

And we have the Fair Housing Law, we have equal employment law, like you are not allowed to discriminate in housing. And so just to understand, they are not trying to just like cancel these programs related to DEI; they are trying to…

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Feb 5, 2025

I just want to say how much I have come to admire, in a short period of time, the junior Senator from New Jersey. That was a--that was a real speech, you know. We are, obviously, spending 30 hours on the floor to oppose Russ Vought's…

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Feb 5, 2025

thank you to the ranking member of the Budget Committee for his leadership. We are doing something a little unusual. First of all, every Democrat is united on the vote that will occur 26 or 27 hours from now. Second of all, almost every…

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Feb 5, 2025

I think about my constituents in the IFPTE who work at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. I think about 20 years ago, I guess, the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard was low-performing. It was not great. There was the BRAC Commission to determine…

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Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono· Democratic · HI· Feb 4, 2025

in examining all of the President's Cabinet nominees, I am focused on two things: their fitness and their qualifications for the positions to which they are nominated, including their ability and willingness to put loyalty to the…

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Feb 4, 2025

There's an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda. There's an outbreak of Marburg's disease in Tanzania.

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Feb 4, 2025

I will now put a blanket hold on all of Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is restored.

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Feb 3, 2025

No. And I thank the Democratic leader for his leadership on this. I will just say, I think the idea of getting rid of USAID is a radical one and a wrong one, but that is actually not what we are arguing about. They stormed into the offices…

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Brian Schatz
@brianschatz· Democratic · HI· Feb 3, 2025

It is true. And the firing of the IGs was not just a random, like, ``I don't like those guys'' kind of a firing; it is a precursor to corruption. They literally got rid of the watchdogs, and then they stormed the building. I just want…

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