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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Sep 29, 2026

Students are not dumb. They're not going to sit in college sports with a cap on their earnings.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Sep 29, 2026

In the end, this bill, if it passes and becomes law, is actually going to be a long-term threat to college athletics.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Sep 29, 2026

We could have done what happens in most industries, which is just say to the NCAA and to the colleges, tough luck.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Sep 29, 2026

The bill does really nothing to stop the runaway overall costs of college athletics.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Sep 29, 2026

The crisis, it appears to me, is pretty simple: young athletes who perform a service that would be worth billions in the free market are finally getting what they lawfully deserve.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Sep 29, 2026

The facts don't back up that characterization of college sports…I know that there's more people than ever showing up to these games and watching the games.

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

This is unacceptable, and our bill holds the Netanyahu government accountable for its illegal, reckless, and inhumane actions in the West Bank.

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Tina Kotek
@tinakotek· Democratic · OR· Sep 29, 2026

This award is a critical investment in the North Coast’s ability to be resilient in the face of disasters.

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Sep 29, 2026

Ensuring that Oregon’s coastal communities have access to health care in the wake of natural disasters is absolutely essential.

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Suzanne Bonamici
@suzannebonamici· Democratic · OR· Sep 29, 2026

This grant funding is long overdue for Columbia Memorial Hospital and everyone who lives on or visits the Oregon Coast.

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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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