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Kamala Harris
@kamalaharris· Democratic · CA· Jul 30, 2025

I love this state, its people and its promise.

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Kamala Harris
@kamalaharris· Democratic · CA· Jul 30, 2025

For now, my leadership — and public service — will not be in elected office.

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Markwayne Mullin
@markwaynemullin· Republican · OK· Jul 30, 2025

We are actually not looking to do reforms, but we don't have a choice.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Jul 30, 2025

We should be outraged by the firing of April Doss, a deeply principled public servant, apparently for the role that she played in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s bipartisan investigation into Russian election interference.

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Kamala Harris
@kamalaharris· Democratic · CA· Jul 30, 2025

We must recognize that our politics, our government, and our institutions have too often failed the American people, culminating in this moment of crisis.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Jul 30, 2025

this sham, hide-the-ball confirmation process is a new low for subservient Senate Republicans.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Jul 30, 2025

The situation with the Epstein files is very simple — Donald Trump promised transparency and he has broken that promise.

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Gary Peters
@garypeters· Democratic · MI· Jul 30, 2025

We are using very unique statutory authority that is granted only to our committee.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Jul 30, 2025

Even as the lawless Emil Bove appears to have misled the committee about multiple, credible, backstopped allegations of misconduct, this body has sunk to simply being a partisan rubber stamp for President Trump.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Jul 30, 2025

if there's nothing to hide, why all the evasiveness?

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Kamala Harris
@kamalaharris· Democratic · CA· Jul 30, 2025

I am a devout public servant, and from the earliest days of my career, I have believed that the best way I could make a difference in people's lives and fight for a better future was to improve the system from within.

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Jul 30, 2025

This, to me, is the problem with Democrats in America right now is we’re willing to be complicit to Donald Trump.

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Jul 30, 2025

I am standing for my police officers. I’m standing for the Constitution, and I’m standing for what’s right. And dear God, if you want to come at me that way, you’re gonna have to pick it up with me, because there’s too much on the line…

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Jul 30, 2025

I say we reject this and, in a bipartisan way, that we demand and end this kind of constitutionally unjust carving up of the resources that we approve.

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Kamala Harris
@kamalaharris· Democratic · CA· Jul 30, 2025

It is my home. But after deep reflection, I’ve decided that I will not run for governor in this election.

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Jul 30, 2025

We are standing at a moment where our president is eviscerating the Constitution of the United States of America, and we’re willing to go along with that today. No, no, not on my watch.

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Cory Booker
@corybooker· Democratic · NJ· Jul 30, 2025

Don’t question my integrity. Don’t question my motives. I’m standing for Jersey, I am standing for my police officers, I’m standing for the Constitution and I’m standing for what’s right.

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