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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 20, 2022

We're here in part because of decades and decades of recklessness by all three branches.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 20, 2022

There is obviously a trend toward shouting down and canceling opinions that are outside the left-leaning mainstream.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 20, 2022

Today, the Senate takes up our constitutional duty to advise the President on his nominee to the Supreme Court.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 20, 2022

I would like to affirm Chris' point about the beauty of the hymn to America you told, through the eyes of your parents, and the changes, the growth in the country over the course of the last two generations.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 20, 2022

I think it should be a decision for the Supreme Court to make about whether or not there are cameras in the courtroom, not a decision for the Article I branch to make for Article III.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 17, 2022

I would direct a question. The PRESIDING OFFICER.--for a question? The Senator from Nebraska. And I would ask both Senators to direct their remarks to the President, please.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 17, 2022

I am asking a really simple question: Do you think a single person that your Twitter self-pleasuring was for--do you think a single person that voted against it voted against it because they were against Ukrainian aid?

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 17, 2022

So let me just see if I understand what you just said. Eight-tenths of 1 percent of the bill that was passed in the middle of the night last week is about Ukraine aid. Do you believe that the people who voted against it voted against it…

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 17, 2022

I think there are three topics. Argue with me if I misread the three topics before us. One is Ukrainian aid. I don't think we differ. And the reason I came to make a speech--and you and I have talked about this offline multiple times in…

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 17, 2022

in the interest of comity, I will underscore three points of agreement from Senator Murphy's last few minutes there, as well, just as a way to close us out. No. 1, I agree with the Senator that there is a lot of grandstanding all over…

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 17, 2022

I would ask the Senator from Connecticut to explain to me why the only choice was $1.5 trillion or zero. The Senate could work its will and have passed the $13.6 billion of aid money 10 minutes later. Madam President, could the Senator…

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 17, 2022

I want to talk about three things. First, Ukraine. What do they need? How much aid? What kind, and how urgently can and should we get it to them? Second, omnis. Does the way the Congress spends money make any sense right now? And, third…

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 17, 2022

Will the Senator yield? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Would the Senator yield his time----

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Don Bacon
@donbacon· Republican · NE· Mar 16, 2022

I will oppose it and I hope the Congress does.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 16, 2022

We know from backchannel stuff that some encrypted apps that a lot Russian military were using afterwards, they were cheering the fact that they had killed children. This wasn`t some accidental bombing.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 9, 2022

In World War II, there were planes dragged across the U.S.-Canadian border.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 9, 2022

I would like to go back to the escalation ladder, though, with these types of weapons.

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Ben Sasse
@bensasse· Republican · NE· Mar 9, 2022

There is no moral limit to what the guy will do.

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