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I don't understand why. In terms of the overall budget, in terms of what is being proposed for expenditures in many other areas, why are we cutting the most popular program the federal government runs?

Right now, Medicare will pay for a broken hip, but they won’t pay for a grab bar in your shower. That’s just insane.

This is an $11 bathmat. I’m the Johnny Appleseed of bathmats.

Much like an ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure, an $11 bathmat sure beats a $30,000 hospital trip.

Something dictators have done throughout history

What's going on now, because of the illegal war in Iran, is drastically affecting our national security and will continue to do so in affecting the people of America.

So, it's a zero value. It's going from $310 million to 0. So, you're saying there was no value in those expenditures whatsoever?

In the 2024 elections, Elon Musk — the richest man in the world — spent at least $290 million to elect Trump, while the 100 richest billionaire families in the country spent $2.6 billion to elect the candidates of their choice.

Americans are paying the high price for President Trump’s war.

As the state with the highest percentage of forest coverage, Maine’s trees offer us everything from the syrup on our pancakes, to the clean air we breathe and the over 14,000 jobs in the forest products industry.

Just for the record, do all of you agree that VA mental health benefits should be available to incarcerated veterans?

Any attempt to effectuate this order would violate the Constitution, break these bonds, and threaten the foundations of American democracy.

By issuing the executive order, however, the President is attempting to unconstitutionally consolidate power to personally regulate American elections.

The Constitution provides no role for the President in regulating federal elections.

I believe and I would like your view, that a more diverse energy source, particularly one that's based on resources that we control rather than a worldwide price, would be beneficial to the country.

I hope this is an area you will pursue with your procurement people.

Let me ask, the bill that was mentioned, the Get Justice-Involved Veterans BACK HOME, the pilot program for the V.A. to provide mental health services for incarcerated veterans. To me that is a gimme. That's obvious. But we have to start…

At best, illegal robocalls are a constant annoyance — at worst, they’re scams that target our most vulnerable citizens or tie up businesses’ phone lines.