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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Aug 8, 2026

The Trump administration must be held accountable for its attacks on our immigrant neighbors.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Aug 8, 2026

This report shines a light on Trump’s cruel project to dismantle due process, strip immigrants of their lawful status, and turn our immigration courts into deportation machines.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Aug 8, 2026

As our nation commemorates its 250th anniversary, we should be celebrating our identity as a nation of immigrants. Instead, the Trump administration is quietly gutting critical protections to systematically demonize and target our…

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Aug 8, 2026

The longer de la Torre evades responsibility, the more people will die. I will continue fighting for my Health Over Wealth Act and to get private equity out of health care.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Aug 8, 2026

Dr. Ralph de la Torre looted Steward Health Care for his own personal gain, including selling land out from under hospitals while he bought a yacht and lavish homes.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Aug 8, 2026

The United States must cut through the red tape preventing the efforts of non-governmental organizations to provide such basic needs of North Koreans.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Aug 8, 2026

Sanctions on North Korea should target the oppressive Kim regime and its dangerous nuclear ambitions—not its vulnerable civilians who lack access to essential services and lifesaving care.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Aug 8, 2026

This fight isn’t close to over and Senate Democrats will do all we can to stop this corrupt disaster before it takes effect.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Aug 8, 2026

No president has ever been so insistent on putting guns in the hands of violent criminals.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Aug 8, 2026

The reason that this war is dragging on endlessly – it does matter, and my colleagues should care about Trump's insider trading subscription scheme.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Aug 8, 2026

This war is a disaster. America is losing. Consumers can't afford to pay these prices. Businesses are going under.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Aug 8, 2026

Can any of my Republican colleagues defend the president selling announcements from the White House for $100,000 a month, in the middle of a war?

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Aug 8, 2026

I just want to go through this pattern for you because it is really important to talk about the fact that the White House is just not being straight with the American public about what's going on in this war…

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Aug 8, 2026

He gaslights. He tells lies. And the essential gaslight is that the war is about to end: ‘Don't worry. Yes, it appears that there is no end. It appears that you're going to have to continue to pay these prices forever. It appears that…

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Aug 8, 2026

The war might be continuing, not just because of incompetence, but because the president has found a way to make money.

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Angela Alsobrooks
@angelaalsobrooks· MD· Aug 8, 2026

Sergeant Ed Ramsey spent 20 years serving our country in the Army followed by another 27 years working for USPS. He is a patriot and a public servant who served with courage, kindness, and conviction. At the Olney Post Office, every member…

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Aug 8, 2026

Sergeant Ed Ramsey lived a life of public service – joining the Army to defend our nation, then going on to serve his community in his local post office for nearly three decades. During those years, his unstinting kindness made such an…

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Aug 8, 2026

Common sense prevailed today and that’s great news for Oregonians who shouldn’t have to worry about getting slammed with a huge tax hit on top of losing their home to wildfire.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Aug 8, 2026

But that’s exactly the issue—there’s no choice in forced arbitration. It was a ‘take it or leave it’ [approach] for the employees before this new law was enacted.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Aug 8, 2026

These are hospitals that are serving clearly rural areas and not wealthy people. They are struggling farm families and struggling rural families.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Aug 8, 2026

Here’s what I’m proposing—it is modest, by federal standards, but it is important. I think we ought to make a commitment in this Farm Bill to rural hospitals.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Aug 8, 2026

What do the hospitals tell you when you go home? … Senator Duckworth and I sent letters to 129 rural hospitals in Illinois and said, how are you doing? More than half of them said, we are in trouble—serious trouble.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Aug 8, 2026

Let’s put farm families back in the Farm Bill. And what I’m talking about specifically are not only the profits and losses in farm operations, but the burdens that farm families are carrying.

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