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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

Congress can do and must do more to help prevent unnecessary whale deaths and support the industries trying to comply with regulation.

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

The former President did not say that this was a reasonable step to protect U.S. service members and our Afghan allies; he, in fact criticized President Biden for moving back the deadline.

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

the humanitarian toll has been catastrophic as hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions more have become refugees

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

the United States is the largest humanitarian donor, allocating more than $15.8 billion since Fiscal Year 2012

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

We also need to make sure that, as we discussed in our previous round of questioning, we explore all options for monitoring and eliminating terrorist threats emanating from Afghanistan.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

Mike, I would actually really like working with you on this. As you know, there's substantial overlap in our thinking and in our experience.

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

I think that the earthquake and the Russians' manipulation of the UNSC authorizations of U.N. agencies tells us that the United States and other major donors and Turkiye need to explore large-scale national aid in a continuum outside the…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

If we allow companies and wealthy Americans to avoid paying taxes by going offshore, we can assume that they will follow that incentive.

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David Cicilline
@davidcicilline· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

We passed the Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act last Congress, a bill I worked on with Senators Grassley and Durbin and Leahy and Congresswoman Spartz here in the House, to make sure that we had additional ways to hold war criminals…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

I think it is extremely important that we decorrupt and derottenize our Tax Code.

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

It is vital that terrorist organizations like AQ and ISIS, which have been diminished due to the sacrifice of American service members, our NATO allies, and other partners, never regain the capability to launch a large-scale attack on the…

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

I watched that get dramatically worse after the Citizens United decision, when wealthy special interests could spend unlimited amounts of money in politics.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

Letting billionaires pay low or zero tax rates costs America $550 billion.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

Letting multinational corporations shift profits to tax havens leaves a trillion dollar bill for everyone else to pay.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

Letting wealthy business owners avoid Medicare taxes on their full income costs Medicare $250 billion in lost revenue.

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Seth Magaziner
@sethmagaziner· Democratic · RI· Apr 17, 2023

the fact is that it was Donald Trump's Taliban deal that set the chaos in motion.

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