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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· Apr 18, 2023

Hear me now, when it comes to racist and antisemitic and anti-government violence, there are not fine people on both sides.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 18, 2023

To run an unjust tax system that creates bigger deficits for the sake of wealthy political influence is not a good place for the United States of America to be.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 18, 2023

Which they can put into a pricing advantage and crush small businesses with a pricing advantage that they only got by hiding revenue offshore?

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Apr 18, 2023

Thank you for your testimony and most importantly for the important work that you are doing.

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

the fact is that it was Donald Trump's Taliban deal that set the chaos in motion.

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

The reason that so many of us are concerned about domestic violence, violent extremism, is because over the last 5 years, more Americans have been killed by racially and ethnically motivated mass casualty events than by events connected…

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

I want every American who served in Afghanistan to know that you made a positive difference.

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

we explore all options for monitoring and eliminating terrorist threats emanating from Afghanistan for whatever means are at our disposal.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

If you believe in a progressive tax system, they should be paying a lot more than 25 percent, because when one percent of the population gets 22 percent of the entire country's income, more than the entire lower 50 percent, that is such a…

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

One of the things that my understanding did not happen in advance was the Department of Defense did not share its full list of individuals that could be SIV-eligible with the Department of Homeland Security.

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

Now that the War is over, we must continue to be proactive in ensuring that terrorist organizations in Afghanistan never develop the capacity to threaten the American homeland again.

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

When it became clear that Afghan nationals who risked their own lives to help the United States in our mission were not being protected from Taliban retribution, was there ever any indication from the Trump administration that they were…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

So this combination of huge amounts of political money flowing into the system from big special interests kept secret from the American public, has dramatically added to the long-term difficulty of trying to have fairness in Congress.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

I think we have a problem of an unfortunate circularity between wealth and political influence.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

Which they can put into a pricing advantage and crush small businesses with a pricing advantage that they only got by hiding revenue offshore?

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

The Honorable Seth Magaziner, a Representative in Congress From the State of Rhode Island, and Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence:

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

Letting billionaires pay low or zero tax rates costs America $550 billion.

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