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Mike Bost
@mikebost· Republican · IL· Jul 11, 2023

Maybe you can explain since you gave those dates. Can you explain to me why there is such a huge hit dip in your disciplinary actions before the VA had passed the Accountability Act and now after they quit using it?

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Mike Bost
@mikebost· Republican · IL· Jul 11, 2023

Congress was united in this because veterans and the American people were fed up with bad VA employees not being held accountable.

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Jul 10, 2023

He is wrong and you could just -- not just take my word for it, but take the word of former secretaries of Defense, a bipartisan group have come forward and said that he is wrong. Military officers have come forward and said he is wrong.

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Jul 10, 2023

to have commanders, the commandant -- not have a commandant of the Marine Corps, who can exercise his full duties as commandant is destructive to this nation's national security, and it all is laid at Senator Tuberville's feet.

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Jul 10, 2023

I wish more of them would speak out. I know they've had many conversations with them. Now, listen, Republican Leader McConnell has spoken up and said that he does not support this.

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Jul 10, 2023

Well, I was incredulous, and I checked to make sure that he actually said it and I cannot believe that he would think that White nationalists were not racist. In fact, I think that it is an insult to all military men and women of all…

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger· Republican · IL· Jul 6, 2023

Well, first off, it says terrible things about your candidates that you're like, they're so bad that you have to try to force everybody else to support them. And I think it's anti-democratic, small d democratic.

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger· Republican · IL· Jul 6, 2023

This is again, a party that is desperate and it's a party that is really sliding into authoritarianism.

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger· Republican · IL· Jul 6, 2023

Well, I mean, first off, how awful is your candidate that you have to do this in the first place?

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger· Republican · IL· Jul 6, 2023

It gives a huge advantage to him because people that would be voting in a Republican primary that are legitimately concerned about whether the party can unify around Donald Trump.

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger· Republican · IL· Jul 6, 2023

You're taking away the voice of countless citizens if somebody simply says I can't get on the ballot, because I'm not making a fake pledge to support somebody.

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Lori Lightfoot
@lorilightfoot· Democratic · IL· Jul 1, 2023

Look, every mayor's going to tell you that they need more resources. What we've seen that's been successful is the things that I talked about before, but we've also I think done a lot with diversion at the police station.

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Lori Lightfoot
@lorilightfoot· Democratic · IL· Jul 1, 2023

We've got to make sure that we use every tool in our toolkit. And it's -- soft power is more, much more effective than the hard power of law enforcement for this particular problem.

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger· Republican · IL· Jun 29, 2023

Look, if you want to -- if you want to forgive student loans, that's great. I don't know if it's good policy, but you have to go through Congress with that.

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger· Republican · IL· Jun 29, 2023

The First Amendment isn't there to protect the religious arguments we agree with. It is not there to protect the speech that we agree with. It is actually there to protect the stuff we don't agree with, because that's what's in danger.

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger· Republican · IL· Jun 25, 2023

Yes, it is kind of funny, because it's like, every argument he has made, he basically rebuts in this two-minute thing.

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger· Republican · IL· Jun 25, 2023

Yes, it's a total joke. And, you know, hypocrisy through Donald Trump's whole administration was an everyday occurrence. This is a huge example of that.

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger· Republican · IL· Jun 25, 2023

I think that's his defense, it is to try to win the people over, run for president, win the re-election and maybe someday pardon himself.

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