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We, therefore, ask you to withdraw OPM and MSPB's proposed rule.

We are concerned this will increase attrition in the critical and experienced workforce that keeps our submarine fleet ready.

This proposed rule would weaken longstanding civil service protections that promote merit-based employment, due process and the recruitment and retention of skilled workers.

If Mr. Carville doesn’t want to be in my party, the party that I belong to, that Piker, that El-Sayed belongs to, he can start his own party.

But nobody I know believes in ‘defunding the police’.

What you know as well as I do is that the right wing, that’s their job, right? They will take what one person said and put, you know, $80bn of TV ads on it and make the claim every Democrat supports that.

What Abdul did last night is pull off, in a sense, the biggest upset in the history of modern politics.

And the other thing that we will do is revitalize American democracy.

I think that’s right. The transition is that, instead of having a top-down party, in which wealthy campaign contributors have enormous influence, we’re going to transform the party into a broad-based party of working people, of young…

So the message here is that the days of a top-down party, I think, are finished.

Now is the time to stand up to powerful special interests. Now is the time to start representing working families.

I have already made, and my colleagues have made a major compromise, going from six trillion down to three and a half trillion.

Instead, we will strengthen and expand Social Security by requiring the wealthiest Americans to finally pay the same percentage of their income into Social Security as tens of millions of working people do today.

At a time when the very rich are getting richer while working families struggle, it is no great secret that millions of Americans no longer have faith in the political process or either major party.

The Democratic Caucus must make it abundantly clear that under no circumstances will we support legislation that cuts Social Security benefits, raises the retirement age, reduces Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLAs), or privatizes this…

I believe, as I said, that it should be coordinated with and, the information should be shared with local and, and state officials, with the attorney general's office, with the governor's office.

Mosquitoes and the diseases they transmit are continual threats to all Americans.

One of the best parts about living in Maine is being able to spend time outdoors, but the threat of dangerous illnesses from mosquito bites is a real concern.