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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 19, 2025

And so I do not need and will not accept any type of lecture from someone who the only uniform they have worn is a Brooks Brother suit.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 19, 2025

Unlike the president of the United States, I’ve actually worn the uniform of this country.

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Aug 14, 2025

I’m always in favor of talking, and we’d all like to see peace, but I’m very worried because, from day one, while Donald Trump said he was going to end the war in Ukraine, he has been played like a fiddle by Vladimir Putin.

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Glenn Ivey
@glennivey· Democratic · MD· Aug 12, 2025

Now, when a former DOGE staffer is assaulted, he suddenly scrambles to call in the Guard and even tries to federalize local police.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 12, 2025

President Trump’s decision to mobilize the National Guard to conduct municipal policing in D.C. lacks seriousness and is deeply dangerous.

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Aug 11, 2025

I will be introducing a Resolution in the House, pursuant to the District of Columbia Home Rule Act of 1973, to reverse this plainly ridiculous state of local emergency and restore full home rule powers to the Mayor, Council and people of…

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Aug 9, 2025

Well, of course he is. He’s on a political revenge tour.

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Aug 8, 2025

Netanyahu's plan to reoccupy Gaza is key to the far-right's goal of taking over Gaza and the West Bank and forcing Palestinians out.

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Aug 2, 2025

I could not agree more. Our message is simple: Release the damn Epstein files, and for God's sake, don't try to destroy the evidence while we wait for those files to be released.

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Aug 2, 2025

Again, I cannot, Senator, read the mind of any of our colleagues. It was a voice vote, but of course the objection we are seeing here on the floor of the Senate today indicates that our Republican colleagues do not want to go on record and…

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Aug 2, 2025

Just briefly because, as I made clear, this was the very provision that Senator Barrasso this morning said that Republicans have supported, and he indicated that this was something that they wanted to see move forward. Well, that was this…

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Aug 2, 2025

We, certainly, more importantly, the American people, and especially the victims deserve to know that nobody will tamper with the files between now and the moment they are released. Again, the fastest way to address this issue, to meet the…

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Aug 2, 2025

In the meantime, though, the best way, as you pointed out and all of us have pointed out and even Attorney General Bondi at one point pointed out, is just release the damn files. That is how we would get to the bottom of all of this. And…

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Aug 2, 2025

This is a report that just came out. The headline is ``The FBI Redacted Trump's Name in the Epstein Files.'' It is a Bloomberg report, and it is just one more example of what appears to be an effort to cover up any role that Donald Trump…

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Aug 2, 2025

Certainly. If the President of the United States is signaling to Ghislaine Maxwell and her attorneys that he would provide a pardon without any possible reason to do so other than for her to give testimony--in this case, it would be false…

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Jul 31, 2025

I would ask why our Republican colleagues are saying that they won't let this package go through if it includes a provision that requires that wherever the FBI moves its new headquarters, that it meets the security requirements that we…

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Jul 30, 2025

About a trillion dollars was cut from Medicaid. That’s a trillion dollars that was going to help people with disabilities, going to help people in nursing homes, going to help people struggling with substance use challenges, going to help…

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