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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Sep 29, 2026

You can’t wait for a disaster to happen to start preparing, and this funding finally moving forward will be transformative for disaster resiliency along the North Coast.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

Over the past 20 months, Republicans have continuously bent the knee, kissed the ring, and handed Donald Trump more power and authority on a silver platter.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

For Donald Trump, billion-dollar ballrooms are full speed ahead. Money for schools—cut.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

This move is an illegal power grab by the Trump Administration—plain and simple.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

We write to call on you to abandon any plan to exert political control over NIH’s grant-making decisions.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

Congress must step in to establish guardrails to protect American biomedical science.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

Injecting political interference into the NIH grantmaking process will irreparably harm America’s biomedical research enterprise, override scientific expertise, and potentially set back lifesaving medical breakthroughs by decades.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

Decisions about which National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants to fund should be guided only by science, and what research is most likely to advance new treatments and cures, or the next breakthrough to save or improve a…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

It’s about time, and in fact it is well past time, for this Committee, the Judiciary Committee, to move on from and stop spreading political rumors and get down to the truth.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

If this hearing was really about getting answers, Committee Republicans would be doing everything they could to obtain a copy of Volume II and urge the Department of Justice to allow Smith to discuss his investigation.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

But instead of condemning this egregious criminal conduct… my Republican colleagues are spreading baseless conspiracy theories and attacking career prosecutors and FBI agents, claiming the so-called ‘deep state’ is out to get Donald Trump.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

Tomorrow, finally, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hear from former Special Counsel Jack Smith.

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Patty Murray
@pattymurray· Democratic · WA· Sep 29, 2026

Theft from the American people, plain and simple.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@alexandriaocasiocortez· Democratic · NY· Sep 29, 2026

Whether it’s the issue about Palestine or many others, whether it’s about people trying to fire those who are forming a union in their workplace, whether it’s people trying to speak up about a number of different issues, we have to respond…

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Sep 29, 2026

Those are legacy things to address climate. They’re legacy things to address livability.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Sep 29, 2026

I should have been down on those agencies a little more, but I will tell you this, in the scheme of things, all the fraud that's been prosecuted, by the way, and all the fraud that's probably out there is less than the ballroom at the…

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Sep 29, 2026

Fraud — should have stopped it sooner.

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