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Ted Cruz
@tedcruz· Republican · TX· May 3, 2025

Thank God there was a decisive response from air traffic controllers and pilots, or else these two close calls could have resulted in the loss of hundreds of lives.

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Chip Roy
@chiproy· Republican · TX· May 2, 2025

If the House budget reconciliation package does not include structural Medicaid reform that achieves desired Republican outcomes, we will be setting up massive tax increases and benefit cuts in the future.

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Greg Abbott
@gregabbott· Republican · TX· May 2, 2025

Today is the culmination of a movement that has swept across the state and our country.

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Elon Musk
@elonmusk· America · TX· May 2, 2025

Banning the AfD would be an extreme attack on democracy.

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Chip Roy
@chiproy· Republican · TX· May 2, 2025

The president has unlocked America’s energy potential, or at least taken a giant step to do so.

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Chip Roy
@chiproy· Republican · TX· May 2, 2025

If other states don’t like California’s approach, they don’t need to follow it…But Congress shouldn’t intervene.

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Al Green
@algreen· Democratic · TX· May 1, 2025

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for your kindness. He is defying the Federal courts. Once you do this, you become a de facto dictator--you reduce the country to a de facto dictatorship--and for this you must be impeached. The Articles will go into…

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John Cornyn
@johncornyn· Republican · TX· May 1, 2025

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 3:23 p.m., adjourned until Monday, May 5, 2025, at 3 p.m.

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John Cornyn
@johncornyn· Republican · TX· May 1, 2025

for the information of all Senators, we will have one rollcall vote at 5:30 p.m. on Monday on the motion to proceed to H.J. Res. 61. ____________________

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Chip Roy
@chiproy· Republican · TX· May 1, 2025

Let's fast-forward. What we are really talking about--for everybody at home watching C-SPAN, all 14 of you--we have a situation where ObamaCare expanded the Medicaid population, and it expanded it massively to a population that is much…

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John Cornyn
@johncornyn· Republican · TX· May 1, 2025

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following resolutions that are at the desk: S. Res. 196, OU Women's Gymnastics; and S. Res. 197, UConn Women's Basketball. There being no objection, the…

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Chip Roy
@chiproy· Republican · TX· May 1, 2025

I do want to take one second before I yield to my friend from California to honor a dear friend of mine who passed away a couple weeks ago, Diana Denman. Often called the godmother of the Texas Republican Party, she passed away on April 17…

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Chip Roy
@chiproy· Republican · TX· May 1, 2025

The question I have for the gentleman: When I graduated from law school at the University of Texas in 2003, the national debt was somewhere in the $6 trillion range, $6.5 trillion dollars. When I came to Congress, when I was campaigning to…

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Chip Roy
@chiproy· Republican · TX· May 1, 2025

I thank the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Schweikert). We have engaged in a colloquy on his time. I am going to start my 30 minutes. He, of course, is welcome to stick around a little bit if he wants. I am going to just jump off from where…

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John Cornyn
@johncornyn· Republican · TX· May 1, 2025

I now ask for a second reading and, in order to put the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule XIV, I object to my own request. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The bill will be read for a second time the next…

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Chip Roy
@chiproy· Republican · TX· May 1, 2025

I thank the gentleman from Arizona for his steadfast devotion to highlighting for the American people the state of our fiscal health, which is not good, and the extent to which we are complicit in it. I would just point out that this thing…

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