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John Fetterman
@johnfetterman· Democratic · PA· Mar 19, 2025

Fetterman has been criticizing your party for ‘undignified antics and a sad cavalcade of self-owns’

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John Fetterman
@johnfetterman· Democratic · PA· Mar 13, 2025

You don’t start wars unless you have an exit plan. We had no exit plan.

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John Fetterman
@johnfetterman· Democratic · PA· Mar 13, 2025

They can yell and -- and fundraise off of that. But I'll be the only Democrat that's going to tell America the truth of what shutting the government down. And that would be a (EXPLETIVE DELETED) disaster.

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Summer Lee
@summerlee· Democratic · PA· Mar 13, 2025

I think that they need to own it.

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John Fetterman
@johnfetterman· Democratic · PA· Mar 12, 2025

Total theater is neither honest with constituents nor a winning argument.

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John Fetterman
@johnfetterman· Democratic · PA· Mar 12, 2025

I refuse to burn the village down in order to save it.

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John Fetterman
@johnfetterman· Democratic · PA· Mar 12, 2025

It’s a CR that we all agree we don’t like — but for me we can’t ever allow the government to shut down.

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Al Schmidt
@alschmidt· PA· Mar 11, 2025

I thank the chairman of the committee for bringing this bill, and I rise in strong support of H.R. 1156, the Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act. There is an old expression that we have all heard at one time or another about the…

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Mary Gay Scanlon
@marygayscanlon· Democratic · PA· Mar 11, 2025

Today House Republicans are trying to avert a funding crisis of their own making by passing a partisan Republican spending bill they drafted behind closed doors. It cuts $13 billion from programs like low-income housing, agricultural…

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Madeleine Dean
@madeleinedean· Democratic · PA· Mar 11, 2025

We are in a dark time, but this is no time to retreat or to despair because we have been in dark times in this country before. This past weekend, along with dozens of my colleagues and hundreds of others, I had the opportunity, the chance…

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Dan Meuser
@danmeuser· Republican · PA· Mar 11, 2025

Here is some truth. Despite many false claims, the continuing resolution we just passed does not cut Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, or veterans benefits or any healthcare benefits at all. In reality, the CR was almost entirely the…

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Dan Meuser
@danmeuser· Republican · PA· Mar 11, 2025

By direction of the Republican Conference, I send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 213 Resolved, That the following named Members be, and are…

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John Fetterman
@johnfetterman· Democratic · PA· Mar 11, 2025

If you shut it down, you will impact and hurt millions and millions and millions of Americans, and you run the risk of slipping us into a recession or even all kinds of other things.

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John Fetterman
@johnfetterman· Democratic · PA· Mar 10, 2025

I refuse to burn the village down and to claim to save it.

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John Fetterman
@johnfetterman· Democratic · PA· Mar 10, 2025

"I refuse to burn the village down and to claim to save it," Fetterman said. "I probably won't agree with many facets of that CR, but when the choice is about shutting the government down, I don't want to be involved with that."

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Brendan Boyle
@brendanboyle· Democratic · PA· Mar 9, 2025

This analysis from the nonpartisan CBO confirms what we’ve been saying all along: Republicans are lying about their budget.

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