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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Sep 11, 2026

No government can be allowed to place its demands beyond the reach of legislative inquiry.

theguardian.com
Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Sep 11, 2026

Congress is not only a co-equal branch of government, it is the First Branch.

theguardian.com
Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Sep 11, 2026

The UK government cannot champion legislative oversight at home while using administrative gag orders to kneecap the constitutional authority of the US Congress.

theguardian.com
Pete Hegseth
@petehegseth· Sep 11, 2026

We’re still sending terrorists where they belong – to hell. And tankers to the bottom of the ocean where they belong, and we are ensuring that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.

theguardian.com
Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 11, 2026

That’s why we fight today. We don’t have a choice. There can only be victory. We fight hard. We fight to win.

theguardian.com
Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 11, 2026

Today we renew the sacred oath that we first swore in their names a quarter of a century ago. We will never, ever forget.

theguardian.com
Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 11, 2026

And we salute the service members working right now to ensure the world’s number one sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran will never ever have a nuclear weapon.

theguardian.com
Donald Trump
@donaldtrump· Republican · FL· Sep 11, 2026

We salute every member of the United States military who served in the war on terror.

theguardian.com
J.D. Vance
@jdvance· Sep 11, 2026

He also appealed for Republican unity, while attacking Democrats as the 'party of hatred.

reason.com
J.D. Vance
@jdvance· Sep 11, 2026

Vance smiled at the lectern, taking it in. Similar friendly outbursts continued throughout his speech, in which he talked about the kind of country he wanted to raise his children in.

reason.com
Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Sep 11, 2026

I'm launching an investigation into OpenAI - Americans deserve answers

reason.com
Andrew Garbarino
@andrewgarbarino· Republican · NY· Sep 11, 2026

That's why 9/11 happened. 9/11 happened because our intelligence agencies, they were siloed, they were not sharing information. I don't know if it was a complacency or whatever, but there were a lot of problems.

foxnews.com
Andrew Garbarino
@andrewgarbarino· Republican · NY· Sep 11, 2026

Congress is very good at being reactive... We don't want another 9/11. So if I could leave my fingerprints on something here, it's the fact that the focus, Congress' focus on national security, Congress' focus on homeland security or…

foxnews.com
Andrew Garbarino
@andrewgarbarino· Republican · NY· Sep 11, 2026

Being chairman of the committee, being a New Yorker, it's one of those things you focus on, and you want to make sure another 9/11 doesn't happen, and doesn't ever happen again. And that's my goal. That's my priority.

foxnews.com
David Eby
@davideby· Sep 11, 2026

After all of the president's bad behaviour, after everything that he's done, if Americans ever had to face the same kind of horrors that they did on 11 September, would Canadians step up in the same way?

bbc.co.uk
Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 11, 2026

When scientists tell you there is a chance, a chance that it could have a cataclysmic impact on humanity, you've got be a moron not to say, slow it down.

bbc.co.uk