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Can any of my Republican colleagues defend the president selling announcements from the White House for $100,000 a month, in the middle of a war?

I just want to go through this pattern for you because it is really important to talk about the fact that the White House is just not being straight with the American public about what's going on in this war…

He gaslights. He tells lies. And the essential gaslight is that the war is about to end: ‘Don't worry. Yes, it appears that there is no end. It appears that you're going to have to continue to pay these prices forever. It appears that…

The war might be continuing, not just because of incompetence, but because the president has found a way to make money.

Sergeant Ed Ramsey lived a life of public service – joining the Army to defend our nation, then going on to serve his community in his local post office for nearly three decades. During those years, his unstinting kindness made such an…

Common sense prevailed today and that’s great news for Oregonians who shouldn’t have to worry about getting slammed with a huge tax hit on top of losing their home to wildfire.

Do you stand by your words?

But that’s exactly the issue—there’s no choice in forced arbitration. It was a ‘take it or leave it’ [approach] for the employees before this new law was enacted.

These are hospitals that are serving clearly rural areas and not wealthy people. They are struggling farm families and struggling rural families.

Here’s what I’m proposing—it is modest, by federal standards, but it is important. I think we ought to make a commitment in this Farm Bill to rural hospitals.

What do the hospitals tell you when you go home? … Senator Duckworth and I sent letters to 129 rural hospitals in Illinois and said, how are you doing? More than half of them said, we are in trouble—serious trouble.

Let’s put farm families back in the Farm Bill. And what I’m talking about specifically are not only the profits and losses in farm operations, but the burdens that farm families are carrying.

I beg my young students in Illinois to start there, and counselors to do their job and discourage kids from getting involved with these for-profit schools.

I… warned them, be careful not to let your students be lured into these for-profit colleges and universities.

That’s life changing news for nearly half a million federal student loan borrowers, who will receive $23 billion in relief after being misled and defrauded by for-profit colleges.

What you don’t know is that although only eight percent of [American college students] go to for-profit colleges and universities, 30 percent of all student loan defaults are the students from these same schools.

It is unconscionable that ATF, whose mission is to protect the public from violent gun crime, would even begin to consider regulatory changes that could result in such deadly outcomes.

To upend longstanding federal gun violence prevention regulations in a manner that contravenes commonsense federal firearms laws like the GCA and the Brady Act based on an inadequate justification and incomplete cost-benefit analysis…