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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 4, 2024

Mr. President, this resolution threatens fundamental life sciences research. Research is medicine's field of dreams from which we harvest the findings that give hope to families. Over 1 million people died from COVID-19, and tens of…

Congressional Record · 2024-06-04
Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Jun 4, 2024

Mr. President, I rise today because reproductive freedom is under attack. In 2022, Donald Trump's far-right Supreme Court took away the constitutional right to an abortion, completing the Republican Party's decades-long plan to overturn…

Congressional Record · 2024-06-04
Rich Neal
@richneal· Democratic · MA· Jun 3, 2024

The choice is yours. If you got a better idea, put it out there.

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Rich Neal
@richneal· Democratic · MA· Jun 3, 2024

Thank God for President Biden saying, hey, let's pay for this.

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Rich Neal
@richneal· Democratic · MA· Jun 3, 2024

Cutting Social Security doesn't solve the problem. It exacerbates it.

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Rich Neal
@richneal· Democratic · MA· Jun 3, 2024

What do you have against giving 23 million Americans a tax cut?

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Rich Neal
@richneal· Democratic · MA· Jun 3, 2024

It is time that we advance legislation that increases Social Security benefits to reflect the true cost of living that they experience and does so by making the wealthiest Americans, who have done extraordinarily well, ... pay their fair…

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Ayanna Pressley
@ayannapressley· Democratic · MA· Jun 3, 2024

It is extremely disappointing that this White House would choose to double down on the previous administration's harmful and flawed immigration policies.

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Steve Lynch
@stevelynch· Democratic · MA· May 23, 2024

Madam Chair, I thank the gentlewoman from California for yielding. As the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Digital Assets, I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 5403, the so-called CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act. At the expense of…

Congressional Record · 2024-05-23
Jake Auchincloss
@jakeauchincloss· Democratic · MA· May 23, 2024

Madam Chair, the Framers of the Constitution understood the importance of a strong and stable national currency, which is why Article I, Section 8, grants Congress the exclusive power to coin money and regulate its value. Congress must not…

Congressional Record · 2024-05-23
Ayanna Pressley
@ayannapressley· Democratic · MA· May 22, 2024

Mr. Speaker, before we began this Special Order hour, I approached Congresswoman Hayes to thank her for her leadership in pulling this together. She said: You are welcome, but I am so sorry we have to do this at all. I am also sorry, as…

Congressional Record · 2024-05-22
Steve Lynch
@stevelynch· Democratic · MA· May 22, 2024

I just want to, you know, put a stake in the ground, put a flag in the ground on that for you to take a good hard look at that.

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Ayanna Pressley
@ayannapressley· Democratic · MA· May 22, 2024

Investing in electric vehicles is good for the environment. It is good for people's pocketbooks.

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Steve Lynch
@stevelynch· Democratic · MA· May 22, 2024

Look, LIHEAP, the reason we have to give people low income--excuse me, low-cost heating oil is because a lot of poor folk have oil-fired furnaces, right? That is why we are doing that.

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Steve Lynch
@stevelynch· Democratic · MA· May 22, 2024

$3 billion for the post office to electrify their fleet.

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Steve Lynch
@stevelynch· Democratic · MA· May 22, 2024

Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding time. Mr. Chairman, I have been a Member of Congress for over 20 years, and I have to say that while this may not be the worst, it is in the top three in terms of the worst bills that I…

Congressional Record · 2024-05-22
Ayanna Pressley
@ayannapressley· Democratic · MA· May 22, 2024

The climate crisis is real. The planet is not warming, as many experts have cited. The planet is burning.

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