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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jul 15, 2026

Here is our chance to agree on a bipartisan process to rescue Social Security this year.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Jul 15, 2026

For nearly a century, Social Security has been a lifeline that allows Americans to retire with dignity.

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Thom Tillis
@thomtillis· Republican · NC· Jul 15, 2026

Social Security is on an unsustainable path that will lead to dramatic benefit cuts for retirees and growing skepticism among workers paying into a program on the brink of insolvency.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jul 15, 2026

For years, we've known that Social Security faces serious long-term financial challenges, yet Congress has repeatedly chosen to look the other way.

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John Cornyn
@johncornyn· Republican · TX· Jul 15, 2026

Americans have paid into Social Security with the expectation that the benefits they earned would provide the foundation for their retirement, and Congress has a responsibility to keep that promise.

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Jul 15, 2026

Congress has talked for years about the need to shore up Social Security so that Americans who have spent decades paying into the program can count on it to be there for their retirement.

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Alan Armstrong
@alanarmstrong· Republican · OK· Jul 15, 2026

For the millions Americans who have worked hard, paid into the system, and simply want the security of knowing they can retire with dignity, this is not an abstract fiscal policy debate.

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Kirsten Gillibrand
@kirstengillibrand· Democratic · NY· Jul 15, 2026

The University of Rochester is a deserving recipient of this award, and I couldn't be prouder to see the STELLAR Engine recognized in the NSF Regional Innovation Engines competition.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jul 15, 2026

The fatal shootings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero are tragic, heartbreaking, and enraging.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jul 15, 2026

There must be full, fair, and independent investigations into these shootings so the truth can be revealed, and it is critical that DHS not deport any eyewitnesses and allow them to participate fully in the investigation.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jul 15, 2026

I was glad President Trump attended the summit—he and President Obama were right to push our allies to pay more of their fair share for the cost of NATO. But President Trump’s constant rhetoric belittling the alliance and dreams of…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jul 15, 2026

The original misstep may have occurred even earlier, when President Trump withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear agreement during his first term, a deal that was working to restrain Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jul 15, 2026

Today, 60 new Americans from 25 countries took an oath that binds us all—not by birth, but by shared belief in our country's promise.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jul 15, 2026

It reminds me that America has always been strengthened, not weakened like some want us to believe, by those who choose it.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jul 15, 2026

To our newest citizens: you now carry both the rights and the responsibilities of this democracy, and I'm counting on you to exercise and defend them.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jul 15, 2026

President Trump’s decision to, once again, slash the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments is an attack on some of our nation’s most extraordinary public lands.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jul 15, 2026

These lands belong to every American. In the wake of these unfortunate reductions, I urge Congress to pass my America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act to protect and defend these lands for future generations.

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