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“If we had taken this money that we've spent in just two and a half months of war and applied it to medical research, we would double this year's budget for medical research.”

What a disaster that is. And insult to injury, the text says that Iran promises to open the Strait for… 10 years? Nope. Five years? A year? No. Iran says, we will open the Strait of Hormuz for two months toll-free, and then after that…

The Iranians don't have to worry about oil sanctions – they're gone. The Iranians don't have to worry about getting back their frozen funds or transferring them. They don't have to worry about an American military response, because they've…

We require a teacher to go through licensing before they are in a classroom. We require most complicated technologies to go through an approval process before they are handed out to the American public.

I don't think there's any way to overhype the damage that AI has already done to our kids' ability to succeed. I'm the parent of an incoming 12th grader and incoming 9th grader, and I've seen already how, at scale, kids have outsourced…

These nuclear negotiations are just destined to fail. I hope I'm wrong, but on the back side of this war, the President has almost no leverage.

I knew the deal was likely going to be humiliating for the United States of America, but I didn't know it was going to be this humiliating. I didn't know the deal was going to be this bad.

All of this was predictable. I've listened to my hardline colleagues argue that the only way to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, or to destroy their missiles, or to stop their support for terrorism, is to go to war with Iran.

As gas prices eclipse $6 a gallon in many places, as Americans are killed, as new wars break out in the region, as farms go bankrupt with the ballooning diesel prices, every single day this war has gone on, it has become a worse debacle…

The war needs to end basically upon any terms, but it is important for us tonight, as we are reading the details of this agreement, to understand how the terms of this agreement are final, clear, and total proof of how calamitous this war…

“Loneliness can be a silent killer for the elderly and people with disabilities and we need to do a lot more to protect these vulnerable groups from social isolation and help them find community,” said Murphy.

“The challenge of loneliness isn’t going anywhere and the social connection safety net this bill funds is among the best investments we can make for the mental and physical health of our seniors.”

If you have given up all your leverage just to open the strait, you have nothing left to try to get them to come to the table on their nuclear program.

Department of Transportation workers who maintain our roads put themselves in harm’s way every day so the rest of us can get home safely, and they deserve every protection we can give them.

The entire scope of this agreement basically boils down to a multi-billion dollar payment to Iran, so that Iran opens the Strait of Hormuz. What a disaster that is.

By partnering with towns and developers, we can take unused, blighted properties that have sat vacant for decades and bring them back from the dead, rejuvenating these parcels and bringing life back to these neighborhoods.

Americans are feeling more disconnected than ever and it’s a full-blown crisis for our democracy when people retreat to their devices and lose sight of what it means to be part of a community.

The responsibility of nominating judges to our courts is one that I take very seriously because these individuals are the final arbiters of justice, and we want people serving in these positions who respect the rule of law, understand the…