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When I was 14 years old, my father passed from lung cancer. After watching him struggle, I made it a priority during my time in Congress to spare others from suffering like my father did.

Can you commit to protecting our OIB sites like Rock Island Arsenal from further job cuts?

I am deeply concerned as I learn about the Administration’s plans to reduce forces in this theater.

For more than four years now, the Ukrainian people have bravely fought on the front line of democracy against Russian aggression.

Inflation has surged to 3.8 percent, the highest level since the pandemic, and it is outpacing wage growth.

This ruling by the parliamentarian, in response to a challenge brought by Senate Democrats, is a win for the American people across the country.

The President is making sure that those who fought to undermine a free and fair election and those who attacked this Capitol building cash in—not the hardworking families of America who are struggling mightily to get by.

So, Mr. Chairman, I’m afraid this hearing is not off on a good foot as far as I’m concerned, but I want to be on the record clearly: walking across that Edmund Pettus Bridge with John Lewis, I realized what was at stake in 1965—it’s still…

The declaration from this Supreme Court in this case [Louisiana v. Callais] as well as the political position of many of my colleagues is: ‘we don’t need it anymore; we don’t have discrimination anymore.’ I don’t believe that’s true.

I implore you to do the right thing and use what power you have to push back on these short-sighted, corrupt, and deadly decisions that benefit Big Tobacco at the expense of our nation’s children.

Nothing that we know about e-cigarettes suggests that they will Make America Healthy Again. Quite the opposite, as they continue to perpetuate tobacco use, which remains the number one cause of preventable death in this country.

Your entire tenure as the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is predicated on Making America Healthy Again, which is why I am writing to express my extreme disappointment with this Administration’s…

That is in direct conflict with what is required of federal judges. We should have confidence that jurists will be neutral arbiters who rule without fear or favor.

For aspiring judges not lucky enough to become one of the President’s personal attorneys, they can jockey for President Trump’s support in another way: supporting his baseless legal arguments.

Nonetheless, President Trump continues to nominate his personal attorneys to serve as judges.

Imagine if Joe Biden went this far [with a DOJ slush fund]. Would we have a hearing in the Judiciary Committee? I certainly know we would and you do too.

Attacks on voting rights aren’t happening in a vacuum. Across this country, Republican lawmakers and litigators are using every trick in the book to rig the rules of the game.

We cannot allow that blood to have been spilled in vain. We must fight these dangerous attempts to restrict the right to vote and restore confidence in our democracy.