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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Mar 5, 2019

in California, several counties and cities are suing the big oil companies to hold them liable for the damages that climate change is causing to the infrastructure out there. As judges consider these cases, one thing they will be asked to…

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Jim Langevin
@jimlangevin· Democratic · RI· Mar 5, 2019

We often hear about the immunotherapy revolution, medicine's next frontier, which is right now, for extending or even saving lives. Dr. Sadhak Sengupta and his wife, Sudarshana, two talented scientists from Rhode Island, are on the cutting…

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Jim Langevin
@jimlangevin· Democratic · RI· Mar 5, 2019

I don't think there is anybody on this committee who is not in support of modernizing our nuclear force.

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Jim Langevin
@jimlangevin· Democratic · RI· Mar 5, 2019

I have long held that and I have an interest in ensuring that we are making policy based on sound data and credible threats.

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Jim Langevin
@jimlangevin· Democratic · RI· Mar 5, 2019

The question is what is the most efficacious way of getting us there and not creating a solution that fills a political promise but doesn't really achieve strong border security.

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Jim Langevin
@jimlangevin· Democratic · RI· Mar 5, 2019

So, Secretary Nielsen, what the President had said was not accurate, was it?

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Jim Langevin
@jimlangevin· Democratic · RI· Mar 5, 2019

The President has claimed--and the way I read it, it has misled the American people.

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Jim Langevin
@jimlangevin· Democratic · RI· Mar 5, 2019

Using low-enriched uranium in naval reactor fuel has the potential to bring significant national security benefits.

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Jim Langevin
@jimlangevin· Democratic · RI· Mar 5, 2019

Now let me establish, from the outset, that we all want stronger border security.

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Jim Langevin
@jimlangevin· Democratic · RI· Mar 5, 2019

I want to thank our witnesses for your testimony this morning.

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Jim Langevin
@jimlangevin· Democratic · RI· Mar 5, 2019

the facts are exactly the opposite when you are talking-- looking at the actual number. Apprehensions today are substantially smaller than they were 20 years ago.

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Jim Langevin
@jimlangevin· Democratic · RI· Mar 5, 2019

I think a robust discussion about what is actually in the Nuclear Posture Review and whether or not it makes sense to maintain that deterrence, that is the debate we were having.

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Jim Langevin
@jimlangevin· Democratic · RI· Mar 5, 2019

According to this report, so the number of apprehensions at the border in 2000 was 1.6 million.

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Mar 3, 2019

We have a responsibility to gather evidence, to bring in witnesses, to make factual determinations, so that we can take appropriate action, as the Judiciary Committee.

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Mar 3, 2019

We're going to get at the truth, and we're going to get the materials and the evidence we need to find out exactly what happened here and to hold this administration accountable.

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Mar 3, 2019

If people are going to claim a reason not to produce documents or testify, they have to invoke a legally recognized reason to do that.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Feb 28, 2019

our Democratic leader has set three plain and very obvious questions about fossil fuel-burning carbon emissions and climate change that should be easily answered by every single Member of the Senate, and the fact that this is a problem is…

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Feb 28, 2019

I thank the chairman for yielding. Madam Chair, I would just point out in further support of Mr. Nadler's remarks, on average, 20 veterans commit suicide every single day in this country, and two-thirds of those suicides are caused by use…

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