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Howard Dean
@howarddean· Democratic · VT· Feb 7, 2020

I want to recognize National Gun Violence Survivors Week and the 58 percent of Americans who have experienced gun violence in their lifetimes. Gun violence kills nearly 40,000 Americans every year; more than half of those deaths are…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Feb 5, 2020

an impeachment trial of a sitting President of the United States is not a matter to be taken lightly. A President should not and must not be impeached because of political disagreements or policy differences. That is what elections are…

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Feb 5, 2020

I entered the Senate in the wake of Watergate in 1975, a time when the American people's faith in our institutions was profoundly shaken. The very first vote I cast was in favor of creating the Select Committee to Study Government…

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Feb 5, 2020

the question before us is incredibly serious, but it is also more than a little absurd. We are sitting as a court, exercising the sole power to try impeachments, entrusted to us by the Framers. The President of the United States has been…

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David Roe
@davidroe· Republican · VT· Feb 4, 2020

My Democrat colleagues want to talk about protecting workers' rights while they simultaneously push radical legislation that will undermine the rights of workers.

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David Roe
@davidroe· Republican · VT· Feb 4, 2020

H.R. 2474, the PRO Act, is written to bail out the failing labor union business model that is being widely rejected by American workers.

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Jan 30, 2020

Mr. Chief Justice, I ask to send a question to the desk on behalf of myself and Senator Blumenthal to the House managers. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Thank you, Senator. The question for the House managers from Senator Leahy and Senator Blumenthal…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jan 29, 2020

Mr. Chief Justice, I send a question to the desk for the House managers. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Thank you. Senator Sanders asks the House managers: Republican lawyers have stated--on several occasions--that two people, Senator Johnson and…

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Jan 29, 2020

Mr. Chief Justice, I have a question for the House managers, and I send it to the desk. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Senator Leahy asks the House managers: The President's counsel argues that there was no harm done, that the aid was ultimately…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Jan 28, 2020

the U.S. should leverage military aid to Israel in order to manufacture changes to Israeli domestic policy

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David Roe
@davidroe· Republican · VT· Jan 28, 2020

I think one of the most distressing statistics I heard during our roundtable in Tennessee was that the second-leading cause of death between the ages of 10 and 34 is suicide.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Jan 28, 2020

I hope we can move forward on this just so that we give integrity to whatever the label is.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Jan 28, 2020

I just want to strongly endorse this bipartisan legislation that would try to start addressing this abuse on pricing powered by pharma.

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David Roe
@davidroe· Republican · VT· Jan 28, 2020

I want to give the VA a shout-out and there are some--obviously, we are going over some problems today that the VA had, but all in all I think the VA probably has the opportunity to be one of the best systems in the country.

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David Roe
@davidroe· Republican · VT· Jan 28, 2020

Suicide is a national tragedy. It is not just the VA; it is a national tragedy for us.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Jan 28, 2020

a label is a label. And as Scott Gottlieb said when he was still in that position, if it is not lactation, then a nut, a seed, these other products that can be good, do not meet the definition of a dairy product.

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Peter Welch
@peterwelch· Democratic · VT· Jan 28, 2020

I am asking a simple, straightforward question and you are telling me you will get back to me.

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David Roe
@davidroe· Republican · VT· Jan 28, 2020

The members here have heard me say this many times, in the Guard in Tennessee we have a program called Guard Your Buddy, which has been shown to reduce suicide by almost 70 percent.

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