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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

the humanitarian toll has been catastrophic as hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions more have become refugees

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

Let me just say 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…

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

Unfortunately, there are some people who have been using the deaths of right whales to push a political agenda by falsely claiming that offshore wind development has some link to right whale deaths when the evidence clearly shows no such…

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

It is vital that terrorist organizations like AQ and ISIS, which have been diminished due to the sacrifice of American service members, our NATO allies, and other partners, never regain the capability to launch a large-scale attack on the…

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

If we allow companies and wealthy Americans to avoid paying taxes by going offshore, we can assume that they will follow that incentive.

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

Letting multinational corporations shift profits to tax havens leaves a trillion dollar bill for everyone else to pay.

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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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Jim Langevin
@jimlangevin· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

The Air Carrier Access Amendments Act... will help make air travel more accessible for individuals with disabilities.

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

accountability does not begin in January 2021. There is a larger story here that if we are going to draw lessons for the future and how to do better, we have to be mindful of.

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

I will take that as a sign that the brinkmanship over raising the debt ceiling will end in the interest of national security, although I am not optimistic.

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

I think it is extremely important that we decorrupt and derottenize our Tax Code.

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

As Members of the Homeland Security Committee, we have a duty to protect the United States homeland and the people who live here from all threats, foreign and domestic.

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

Thank you for the opportunity to offer testimony to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and elevate Rhode Islanders' priorities as you prepare to reauthorize federal aviation programs.

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

I watched that get dramatically worse after the Citizens United decision, when wealthy special interests could spend unlimited amounts of money in politics.

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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

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

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