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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Aug 14, 2026

The appearance of numerous conflicts of interest from a President trading in individual stocks – including the potential for insider trading, market manipulation, and policy decisions that benefit the President’s stock portfolio rather…

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Aug 14, 2026

The American people deserve to know that the President is not using his office to increase the value of his stock portfolios, rather than working to bring down the cost of groceries

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Aug 14, 2026

Removing these reports appears to be an attempt to avoid disclosure of information the public needs to evaluate if major, high-dollar weapon systems are effective and safe.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Aug 14, 2026

The decision to purge the office of DOT&E has created significant and unnecessary risk that jeopardizes readiness, service member safety, acquisition reform, and taxpayer dollars.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Aug 14, 2026

(safety regulation rollbacks) were motivated solely by ideology it would reflect a dangerously bad set of policies by the Trump administration. But the specter of corruption – and quid pro quo politics – casts a darker shadow over these…

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Aug 14, 2026

Americans deserve to know whether the deals the administration is cutting with Big Pharma will lower their prescription drug costs — or just further enrich big drug companies.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Aug 14, 2026

Your ongoing refusal to release these deals raises questions about whether the Trump administration is trying to hide the fact that it is giving billion-dollar handouts to Big Pharma without getting anything meaningful in return for…

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Adam Schiff
@adamschiff· Democratic · CA· Aug 14, 2026

Every $1 invested in transit generates $5 in long-term economic value. Conversely, failing to deliver on long-promised transit investment carries serious economic consequences.

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Adam Schiff
@adamschiff· Democratic · CA· Aug 14, 2026

The growing backlog of projects in limbo due to FTA and OMB inaction is unacceptable.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Aug 14, 2026

We are very concerned that delaying the CIG project pipeline, while advancing only the Utah project, is potentially rooted in partisan political considerations, which could further violate statutory requirements.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Aug 14, 2026

In order to protect nursing home residents’ voting rights, we request that you immediately rescind the July 2026 memo and reinstate the 2020 and 2024 guidance.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Aug 14, 2026

The right to vote is guaranteed by the Constitution to all adult Americans, including nursing home residents.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Aug 14, 2026

Ultimately, we are concerned that the changes to CMS’s guidance will result in the disenfranchisement of nursing home residents.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Aug 14, 2026

We write with concern that the recent guidance issued to nursing homes by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) may intimidate nursing home staff from helping residents exercise their constitutional right to vote and…

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Cynthia Lummis
@cynthialummis· Republican · WY· Aug 14, 2026

So it’s time to send the SAVE America Act to President Trump’s desk. I heard that on that parade route, in Cheyenne Wyoming last weekend. And I hear it on this floor.

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Cynthia Lummis
@cynthialummis· Republican · WY· Aug 14, 2026

The Gallup Poll found 84 percent of U.S. adults favoring requiring photo identification to vote, and that same poll found 83 percent, just one less support requiring proof of citizenship for new voter registrants.

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Cynthia Lummis
@cynthialummis· Republican · WY· Aug 14, 2026

So I came home from that parade wondering if Wyoming maybe was a little ahead of the country on this. It turns out Wyoming is right where the country already is.

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Cynthia Lummis
@cynthialummis· Republican · WY· Aug 14, 2026

This past Saturday, I was riding in the Cheyenne Frontier Days Parade alongside Senator Barrasso. Cheyenne is my hometown, it is the world’s largest outdoor rodeo, and we have great parades, four of them during the course of the week of…

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Aug 14, 2026

Washington is standing out as a national leader in youth and youth-adult homelessness, and Casa de la Mora will be a brilliant example of that.

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Aug 14, 2026

At today’s briefing with Sec. Burgum, U.S. Wildland Fire Service Chief Brian Fennessy, and local fire chiefs, we discussed the next steps in responding to the fires and collecting information for a federal disaster declaration.

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Tommy Tuberville
@tommytuberville· Republican · AL· Aug 14, 2026

The bottom line is we need to get bureaucrats and politicians out of this mess. Stop this Social Security scam. Let people really know what’s going on and give the money back to the people.

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Tommy Tuberville
@tommytuberville· Republican · AL· Aug 14, 2026

Basically, Social Security is just, folks, another tax on both employees and employers since most companies have to match the 6 percent that their employees are forced to pay out their paychecks.

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Tommy Tuberville
@tommytuberville· Republican · AL· Aug 14, 2026

If we must keep this outdated program, the least we can do is to ensure that senior citizens don’t get slapped with a double tax.

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Tammy Baldwin
@tammybaldwin· Democratic · WI· Aug 14, 2026

We urge you to enforce dairy standards of identity and stop imitation products from usurping dairy terms.

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