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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Jun 25, 2025

We have an individual who is here seeking confirmation to one of the highest judicial offices in the land.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Jun 21, 2025

There is a lot we still don’t know and we need an accurate, factual damage assessment.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Jun 20, 2025

Israel’s alarming decision to launch airstrikes on Iran is a reckless escalation that risks igniting regional violence.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Jun 18, 2025

The Pentagon has been paralyzed by infighting and stripped of expert staff at a time when we need stability and professionalism.

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· Jun 6, 2025

I rise today for the 17th time to demand that the Trump administration deliver on its promise to restore funding for lifesaving food aid. This so-called pause on lifesaving food aid is unnecessary and unconscionable. "Anybody who tells you…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Jun 4, 2025

Can’t help but wonder how many Trumps got rejected by Harvard.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Jun 3, 2025

I’m not a great mathematician, but I think you were talking about $1 trillion? I believe $1.5 billion times 10 is $15 billion. That’s a little bit off from $1 trillion.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Jun 2, 2025

President Trump has ushered America into a golden age of public corruption.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 27, 2025

We write to ask whether Treasury has conducted any analyses on the effect cutting up to 40% of the IRS workforce will have on revenue collection, customer service, modernization efforts, and the share of audits comprised of corporations…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 21, 2025

Notwithstanding the distinguished majority leader's accusations of mendacity and hypocrisy and misrepresentation, the facts at heart here are quite simple: The waiver at issue is not a rule and was never a rule. Thirty years of precedent…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 20, 2025

The problem with your assertion here today is that it is belied by your own employees’ sworn statements in court and by the decision of the Department of Justice to admit that what you say isn’t true.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· May 20, 2025

Republicans just overruled the Parliamentarian, violated the plain text of the Congressional Review Act, changed the Clean Air Act, and broke the filibuster.

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· May 14, 2025

I thank Ms. Ansari for her thoughts on this matter. Before I yield to the next Member, let me just preface this by saying, again, we have had a big couple of weeks in this fight to ban Members of Congress from trading stocks. Not only…

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· May 14, 2025

The stock trading bill that I am leading was originally introduced by Abigail Spanberger, the Representative from Virginia. I know if she is watching, she is smiling to see all of us coming together and to see the progress that has been…

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· May 8, 2025

I am also concerned about the Trump administration's dubious creation of ``National Defense Areas'' along the southern border in the last several weeks. These National Defense Areas, first designated in New Mexico and later expanded into…

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· May 8, 2025

I rise to address President Trump's dangerous and inappropriate use of the U.S. military to carry out his immigration enforcement campaign. Before I discuss the Trump administration's spending nearly half a billion dollars and sending tens…

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· May 8, 2025

We are here today debating and wasting time on a ridiculous bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico when the American people want us to be focused on real issues that impact their lives. Prices are still too high. Donald Trump's tariffs are…

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