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Tina Kotek
@tinakotek· Democratic · OR· Sep 29, 2026

This award is a critical investment in the North Coast’s ability to be resilient in the face of disasters.

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Sep 29, 2026

Ensuring that Oregon’s coastal communities have access to health care in the wake of natural disasters is absolutely essential.

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Suzanne Bonamici
@suzannebonamici· Democratic · OR· Sep 29, 2026

This grant funding is long overdue for Columbia Memorial Hospital and everyone who lives on or visits the Oregon Coast.

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Jeff Merkley
@jeffmerkley· Democratic · OR· Sep 29, 2026

You can’t wait for a disaster to happen to start preparing, and this funding finally moving forward will be transformative for disaster resiliency along the North Coast.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

Over the past 20 months, Republicans have continuously bent the knee, kissed the ring, and handed Donald Trump more power and authority on a silver platter.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

For Donald Trump, billion-dollar ballrooms are full speed ahead. Money for schools—cut.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

This move is an illegal power grab by the Trump Administration—plain and simple.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

We write to call on you to abandon any plan to exert political control over NIH’s grant-making decisions.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

Congress must step in to establish guardrails to protect American biomedical science.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

Injecting political interference into the NIH grantmaking process will irreparably harm America’s biomedical research enterprise, override scientific expertise, and potentially set back lifesaving medical breakthroughs by decades.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

Decisions about which National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants to fund should be guided only by science, and what research is most likely to advance new treatments and cures, or the next breakthrough to save or improve a…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

It’s about time, and in fact it is well past time, for this Committee, the Judiciary Committee, to move on from and stop spreading political rumors and get down to the truth.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

If this hearing was really about getting answers, Committee Republicans would be doing everything they could to obtain a copy of Volume II and urge the Department of Justice to allow Smith to discuss his investigation.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

But instead of condemning this egregious criminal conduct… my Republican colleagues are spreading baseless conspiracy theories and attacking career prosecutors and FBI agents, claiming the so-called ‘deep state’ is out to get Donald Trump.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

Tomorrow, finally, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hear from former Special Counsel Jack Smith.

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Jim Banks
@jimbanks· Republican · IN· Sep 29, 2026

State veterans’ homes should never have to turn away elderly and disabled veterans because lifesaving medications are too expensive.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Sep 29, 2026

This bipartisan Providing Veterans Essential Medications Act is a crucial piece of legislation that will ensure our veterans continue to receive the care they have earned, regardless of where they chose to live.

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