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Ayanna Pressley
@ayannapressley· Democratic · MA· Apr 3, 2025

Every minute she remains in custody is another minute her health and rights are at risk.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Apr 3, 2025

I rise today to speak on a matter that should not require clarification. In the United States of America, no President, Republican or Democrat, serves more than two terms. That is not a suggestion; that is not a tradition; that is the law…

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Apr 2, 2025

The job of the Democrats over the next 36 hours is to hold the Republicans’ feet to the fire, force them to tell the truth about what they want to do to the American economy and what they believe fairness is, and that is a country that…

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Apr 2, 2025

I thank Senator Kaine for his leadership on this issue. President Trump's new tariffs are not ``Liberation Day''; they are ``Obliteration Day.'' They are going to be remembered as something that raised taxes on every American consumer, had…

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Katherine Clark
@katherineclark· Democratic · MA· Apr 1, 2025

I have been blessed to work with some of the most talented staffers ever to walk the Halls of Congress, but the greater the blessing, the harder the good-bye. Recently, I bid farewell to my director of operations, Wendy Hamilton, and my…

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Lori Trahan
@loritrahan· Democratic · MA· Apr 1, 2025

We are witnessing yet another shameful attack on the fundamental rights of millions of Americans. House Republicans are forcing a vote this week on the so-called SAVE Act, a bill that does nothing to stop inflation from driving up grocery…

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Mar 31, 2025

They have to come to the U.S. Senate or they have to go to the U.S. House of Representatives, and they have to say: We actually want to change benefits for Social Security recipients. By the way, that has happened dozens and dozens of…

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Mar 31, 2025

Senate Democrats are united in saying: Trump and Elon, get your hands off our Social Security.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Mar 31, 2025

Why go out of your way to cut Social Security benefits? Come on now. There are 73 million Americans who rely on this. This has been the backbone of America's promise to its own people that you did the work, you put in the money, and now…

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Mar 31, 2025

I am very grateful to the Senator from New Jersey for coming to the floor for such an extended period of time to give voice to all of those around this country whose voices evidently are not heard by the Republicans in the U.S. Congress. I…

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Mar 31, 2025

First of all, thank you so much for what you are doing, Senator Booker. You are drawing our Nation's attention to what Donald Trump and Elon Musk and DOGE are seeking to do to our country, especially the most vulnerable in our society…

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Mar 30, 2025

It’s now clear that the Fed acted too late and let inflation get too high, and then responded by keeping rates too high for too long.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Mar 26, 2025

And it blows into the lungs of the people in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. I yield to the Senator from Connecticut.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Mar 26, 2025

The Trump administration is targeting students with legal status and ripping people out of their communities without due process.

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Ayanna Pressley
@ayannapressley· Democratic · MA· Mar 26, 2025

Rumeysa Ozturk was kidnapped in plain sight and sent to Louisiana.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Mar 26, 2025

Billionaire co-presidents Donald Trump and Elon Musk are taking a chainsaw to public schools because it’s not their kids who will suffer the consequences.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Mar 26, 2025

I think it is the most well-financed lobbying effort in Washington, DC. I think they have had an ownership of this building for a hundred years, and they are afraid it is about to slip away. Would the gentleman from Rhode Island agree with…

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Mar 26, 2025

What does that mean by ``downwind,'' just so people can understand it? What do you mean by that?

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