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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Sep 3, 2018

The comments from the White House yesterday about trying to politicize the Department of Justice, they were wrong, and they should be condemned.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Sep 3, 2018

The rights... belong to people because of the nature of humans, and humans are created in the image of God and they have dignity.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Sep 3, 2018

I actually got to see it before it was out because Senator Harris gave me a copy, and my kids and I watched it before it was public.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Sep 3, 2018

I think precedent is critically important, but I do not think the American people--it is not something that we debate in front of them much.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Sep 3, 2018

I think Dr. Ford is a victim, and I think she has been through hell, and I am very sympathetic to her.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Sep 3, 2018

We need a First Amendment because it is required for individual liberty, and we need it structurally because society, and particularly a republic, needs that discourse.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Sep 3, 2018

how many times we see our Founders writing about the norms of our civics.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Sep 3, 2018

Executive immunity has no place in a democracy.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Sep 3, 2018

Training for a marathon, completing two marathons like this, is a huge accomplishment.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Sep 3, 2018

I think you can see a lot of that by the type of life you have lived outside of the courtroom.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Sep 3, 2018

A lot of the other records that have been discussed are mainly duplicative, administrative documents.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Sep 2, 2018

These two men have been charged with crimes because of evidence, not because who have the president was when the investigations began.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Sep 2, 2018

the United States is not some banana republic with a two-tiered system of justice, one for the majority party and one for the minority party.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Aug 28, 2018

like so many here today, I rise to honor John McCain and to sing John McCain's praises. There are many here--most here--who knew him longer than I did. I will admit that when the Presiding Officer and I first got here in 2014, I knew John…

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Deb Fischer
@debfischer· Republican · NE· Aug 28, 2018

today I wish to join my colleagues in saying goodbye to our friend and mentor, John McCain. As our country and the world grieves for his loss, we remember him as he was: a father, husband, grandfather, a war hero, and a dedicated public…

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Aug 23, 2018

I find it really difficult to envision any circumstance where I would vote to confirm a successor to Jeff Sessions if he is fired because he's executing his job rather than choosing to act as a partisan hack.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Aug 23, 2018

I rise today to speak to the issue of the leadership of the Department of Justice. It has been a strange couple of hours around this building with lots of talk about firing the Attorney General. I would just like to say in public what I…

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Deb Fischer
@debfischer· Republican · NE· Aug 20, 2018

I ask unanimous consent that the 5:30 votes take place immediately. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Vote on Amendment No. 3705 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to amendment No. 3705.

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