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The American public must be able to have confidence that the court and its officers are acting exclusively in the interest of justice.

Have you received any directions from OMB at any time during the course of your administration at the SBA, to not disburse funding that has been appropriated?

Our administration is committed to delivering for Maryland, by supporting our communities and vital programs, because partnerships create progress.

Political will, I suggest again, Congressman, is, in fact, the answer, not weakening the Congress of the United States.

The Republican-proposed text of the CLARITY Act as it currently stands falls short. Key provisions including those addressing ethics for elected officials, consumer protection, illicit finance, conflicts of interest and market integrity…

I respectfully encourage the Court to review the codes for the judicial branch and consider clearly and expressly prohibiting all justices, judges, staff, clerks, officers, and employees of the judicial branch from participating in…

It is vitally important that the American public have trust in the courts, and taking further action to create a clear standard is critical to regaining that trust.

I write in the spirit of that commitment and the Supreme Court’s responsibility to avoid both impropriety and the appearance of impropriety to encourage you to take action that will bolster public trust.

But success on the merits is not the goal. It is meant to harass Jack Smith. It is meant to please their Fox News viewership. It is meant to whitewash their own participation in a scheme to overthrow our elections.

It seems Republican Members of Congress are lashing out because they just realized their communications with the White House became presidential records preserved at the National Archives as required by the Presidential Records Act.

Let us stop pretending that Congress has no role to play while American service members remain in harm’s way.

The Republicans fault Mr. Smith for not reading the minds of congressional investigators and for not volunteering information they didn't ask for. This is absurd. Mr. Smith may be telegenic but he is not telepathic.

This is a strategic blunder on a massive scale.

But I really say that as we did under Ronald Reagan – I was here all eight years he was president – and George Bush, we rarely shut down the government. Under Joe Biden with a Republican Congress, we didn't shut down the government at all…

I believe these proposals do exactly the opposite of what we need to do in the sense that I think they weaken greatly the Congress and strengthen – even more than has happened today – the presidency, making the executive extraordinarily…

The Trump Administration should be ashamed of itself for proposing this pay disparity, and I urge the Senate to address it and insist on parity.

That disparity is wrong, and it’s why I did not support this bill, which balloons the defense budget by over 28% and will cost more than a trillion dollars but cannot find enough funds to ensure parity in raises between civilian and…

Hardworking civilian federal employees at the Defense Department are no less deserving of an annual raise than their compatriots in uniform.