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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Apr 3, 2025

What has changed is that there is a sense of fear that has been taking hold in our country, and I understand it.

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Jena Griswold
@jenagriswold· CO· Mar 26, 2025

This would potentially disenfranchise millions of people all across the nation and disproportionately affect women, people of color and blue collar Americans.

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Jena Griswold
@jenagriswold· CO· Mar 26, 2025

A president can’t just grab power from Congress and dictate the national law of the land. That’s not how this country works.

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Al Schmidt
@alschmidt· PA· Mar 11, 2025

I thank the chairman of the committee for bringing this bill, and I rise in strong support of H.R. 1156, the Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Enforcement Act. There is an old expression that we have all heard at one time or another about the…

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Mar 9, 2025

I pledge to maintain the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.

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Steve Simon
@stevesimon· MN· Feb 24, 2025

The Biden administration has created new safeguards to reduce the potential for this fraud, but this legislation that is supported by our committee would build on this effort, making convicted fraudsters ineligible for Federal small…

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Steve Simon
@stevesimon· MN· Feb 24, 2025

I thank Ranking Member Velazquez for this opportunity to speak. I thank Chairman Williams for working with me to introduce this bill. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this effort to prioritize small businesses in the future…

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Steve Simon
@stevesimon· MN· Feb 24, 2025

I'm concerned and alarmed at what looks like a retreat from the anti-disinformation mission.

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Steve Simon
@stevesimon· MN· Feb 24, 2025

We're here because in 2016 a foreign government — Russia — tried to tamper with our stuff.

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Adrian Fontes
@adrianfontes· AZ· Feb 24, 2025

This decision undermines Arizona's election security at a time when our enemies around the world are using online tools to push their agendas and ideologies into our very homes.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Feb 22, 2025

But we know exactly what to do, because we have done it before. And we will do it again. We use our power. We organize, mobilize. We educate. We advocate. Our power has never come from having an easy path.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Feb 22, 2025

Some see the flames on our horizons, the rising waters in our cities, the shadows gathering over our democracy and ask ‘What do we do now?’

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Feb 22, 2025

While we have no illusions about what we are up against in this chapter in our American story, this chapter will be written not simply by whoever occupies the oval office nor by the wealthiest among us.

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Steve Simon
@stevesimon· MN· Jan 23, 2025

I thank the ranking member for yielding me time. Mr. Speaker, I oppose this misleading bill that deeply will criminalize doctors who provide the most basic and emergency healthcare to women. His name was Selah Weston. At 21 weeks, his…

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Steve Simon
@stevesimon· MN· Jan 16, 2025

I thank Congresswoman Chu for organizing the California delegation in support of our fellow Californians who are grieving as a result of the devastating fires in southern California. Our hearts break as tens of thousands of folks have lost…

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Steve Simon
@stevesimon· MN· Jan 16, 2025

I thank Ranking Member Raskin for the time. Mr. Speaker, I am honored today to speak in this Chamber as a survivor. Folks know back home that I have been doing this work for 30 years, day in and day out. As a survivor, I almost lost my…

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Al Schmidt
@alschmidt· PA· Nov 2, 2024

And when it does occur the extent to which there's evidence of it, and allegations of widespread voter fraud in Pennsylvania are completely and totally unfounded. Voters should have confidence that we will have a free, fair, safe and…

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Oct 31, 2024

I know she will protect my daughter’s future and your children’s future and our families’ future.

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Brad Raffensperger
@bradraffensperger· GA· Oct 31, 2024

We want people to understand here what the facts are. Come to draw your own conclusions based on the facts, not by stuff that's just made up.

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Al Schmidt
@alschmidt· PA· Oct 27, 2024

The most important people on Election Day, it's not the secretary of state, it's not even a county commissioner. It's those friends and neighbors who volunteer essentially for a 14-hour day in Pennsylvania to make sure that when you show…

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Oct 26, 2024

This is a person, Donald Trump, who tried to undo the – a free and fair election.

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