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Carl Levin
@carllevin· Democratic · MI· Feb 5, 2021

May I inquire of the time remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Michigan has 16\3/4\ minutes remaining. The gentlewoman from North Carolina has 13\1/2\ minutes remaining.

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Tim Walberg
@timwalberg· Republican · MI· Feb 4, 2021

In the midst of these hard times, we are especially grateful for the healthcare and frontline workers who have bravely answered the call. Thankfully, we see glimmers of hope with the discovery and distribution of multiple vaccines. Yet…

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Rashida Tlaib
@rashidatlaib· Democratic · MI· Feb 4, 2021

After decades of living through discrimination from our government, my older Black neighbors in my district finally began having a sense of hope that a new generation of elected leaders is here. Recently, however, those same neighbors have…

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Rashida Tlaib
@rashidatlaib· Democratic · MI· Feb 4, 2021

I thank my colleague for her incredible courage. I asked her to go last because this is so personal. This is so hard because, as many of my colleagues and my closest colleagues know, on my very first day of orientation, I got my first…

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Rashida Tlaib
@rashidatlaib· Democratic · MI· Feb 4, 2021

This is so hard because as many of my colleagues know, my closest colleagues now, my very first day of orientation, I got my first death threat. It was a serious one, they took me aside, the FBI had to go to the gentleman`s home. I didn`t…

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Gary Peters
@garypeters· Democratic · MI· Feb 4, 2021

we need to have a secure border with a strategic mix of personnel, technology, and barriers, and the Biden administration has initiated a comprehensive review of southern border security. But this amendment would force the last…

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Elissa Slotkin
@elissaslotkin· Democratic · MI· Feb 4, 2021

For me, as someone who worked on preventing terrorist attacks on the United States for the first 20 years of my career, I believe the post 9/11 era is over. I think January 6th was the cap of the of one era and the beginning of another…

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Elissa Slotkin
@elissaslotkin· Democratic · MI· Feb 4, 2021

It’s making sure we learn the right lessons from the last 20 years and don’t just overlay that counterterrorism, foreign sort of overlay on to Americans in our communities.

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Elissa Slotkin
@elissaslotkin· Democratic · MI· Feb 4, 2021

I think it’s important that we also realize just though -- similarly to 9/11, we don’t have the intelligence community appropriately looking at the threat, right. We -- January 6th was an intelligence failure of some kind. Either we knew…

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Haley Stevens
@haleystevens· Democratic · MI· Feb 4, 2021

I thank you so much for your dedication to this body and your oversight this evening. I thank all of the very hardworking professionals who help to run the floor of the House. I am so pleased to be back on the floor of the House of…

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Rashida Tlaib
@rashidatlaib· Democratic · MI· Feb 4, 2021

I urge my colleagues to please, please take what happened on 6 seriously. It will lead to more death.

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Gary Peters
@garypeters· Democratic · MI· Feb 4, 2021

We are in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic and recession. The legislation before us must focus on families trying to put food on the table and struggling small businesses, not ensuring well-connected government contractors get rich…

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Rashida Tlaib
@rashidatlaib· Democratic · MI· Feb 4, 2021

Every single day that goes by without outright condemnation from every single one of her Republican colleagues, without consequences for her extremist views, is an outright endorsement of white supremacy.

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Rashida Tlaib
@rashidatlaib· Democratic · MI· Feb 3, 2021

The measure of our nation's greatness should not be the gains of Wall Street. It should be in how our most vulnerable are taken care of.

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Brenda Lawrence
@brendalawrence· Democratic · MI· Feb 3, 2021

I firmly believe a politician without compassion is a criminal, and what we saw happen to these children being separated from their parents is criminal.

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Gary Peters
@garypeters· Democratic · MI· Feb 3, 2021

We have over 120 economists from all sorts of persuasions that are saying it`s time to be bold. We can`t -- we can`t possibly get through this pandemic if we don`t take significant action going forward, and that`s what the president is…

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Rashida Tlaib
@rashidatlaib· Democratic · MI· Feb 3, 2021

They had no issue with granting corporations and the wealthiest of Americans hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of tax cuts, yet they speak out now when we need to help everyday Americans.

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Rashida Tlaib
@rashidatlaib· Democratic · MI· Feb 3, 2021

The vaccine can't fix the problem of our savings accounts, right?

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