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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 3, 2025

The reality is that Secretary Kennedy has profited from and built a career on sowing mistrust in vaccines.

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Rand Paul
@randpaul· Republican · KY· Sep 3, 2025

I think it’s a bad idea.

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Sep 3, 2025

Both sides recognize that we need to get something done, and I sincerely hope my Republican colleagues don’t stand in the way.

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Sep 3, 2025

Families are already struggling with high costs, and allowing these tax credits to expire would make things much worse for working Americans.

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Sep 3, 2025

I believe there comes a time when everyone should stand up and fight for what’s right, and that’s what I intend to do.

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Lisa Murkowski
@lisamurkowski· Republican · AK· Sep 3, 2025

The fact is, advancing the final appropriations bills and avoiding a government shutdown will require a great deal of hard work and collaboration when Congress resumes session next week.

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Bill Cassidy
@billcassidy· Republican · LA· Sep 3, 2025

We need radical transparency because what is at stake here is children’s health, and we need to focus on those issues related to children.

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Sep 3, 2025

I am standing and fighting against any kind of budget proposal that’s going to hurt Americans or hurt people in New Jersey.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 3, 2025

When consumers’ finances are already stretched thin, exorbitant overdraft fees can cause other payments to bounce — leading to even more fees in a vicious circle that can ‘turn setbacks into crises,’

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 3, 2025

Overdraft and non-sufficient fund (NSF) fees are ‘one of the most common exploitative mechanisms big banks use to target the poor,’

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Kevin Cramer
@kevincramer· Republican · ND· Sep 3, 2025

I think that Congress has every right to defend its Article I role.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Sep 3, 2025

We know about their 191 consecutive days in combat, from the trenches of France to the banks of the Reine.

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Bill Cassidy
@billcassidy· Republican · LA· Sep 3, 2025

I am reserving judgment because we don’t know who’s right or wrong.

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Rand Paul
@randpaul· Republican · KY· Sep 3, 2025

It’s always a mistake to say, ’Well we have this one bad policy, all right, we’ll tolerate a little socialism, but we don’t want anymore.

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· Sep 3, 2025

Iran’s mission is ‘death to America,’ so it’s particularly concerning that Joe Biden allowed someone so deeply connected to Iranian leadership access to our national security.

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