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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 23, 2026

It is fairly insane that the tech industry doesn’t know where AI may go next.

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Katie Britt
@katiebritt· Republican · AL· Sep 23, 2026

We also want to ensure that funding of these technologies is paired with appropriate oversight to ensure that the funding is not used to facilitate such abuse.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 23, 2026

We have got to find a way to balance in America privacy and security. I think there is a balance.

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Josh Hawley
@joshhawley· Republican · MO· Sep 23, 2026

We’ve got to find a way to protect and enforce the Bill of Rights and the basic personal liberties of every law-abiding citizen in this country no matter what the technology is.

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Sep 23, 2026

That’s something we’re going to find out about pretty soon, whether the Democrats are willing to take yes for an answer on that, but it has consequences for all the things we’re talking about today, most importantly energy prices.

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Martin Heinrich
@martinheinrich· Democratic · NM· Sep 23, 2026

I don’t do the prediction stuff, because I actually want to get this done.

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Sheldon Whitehouse
@sheldonwhitehouse· Democratic · RI· Sep 23, 2026

Most of the dealbreaker humps we’re over, but now it’s refining the language, taking raw agreements into legislative texts and figuring out what schedule for voting succeeds.

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Susan Collins
@susancollins· Republican · ME· Sep 23, 2026

I urge you not to move forward with this proposal, which would undermine the intent of the CR provision and more important, the Federal government’s objective of funding biomedical research projects based on scientific merit and value…

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Patty Murray
@pattymurray· Democratic · WA· Sep 23, 2026

It shouldn’t take public outcry to prevent President Trump and [Office of Management and Budget director] Russ Vought from laying waste to the NIH and defunding lifesaving research because they think it’s ‘woke’ or want to extort a…

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Charles E. Schumer
@charleseschumer· NY· Sep 23, 2026

If [Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.] would put them on the floor today, we can pass them. Period.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 23, 2026

Mr. Huang should be nowhere near the negotiating table during President Xi’s visit.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 23, 2026

We certainly should not be letting tech billionaires like Nvidia’s Jensen Huang negotiate away our export controls or decide our AI policy to benefit his own personal bottom line.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Sep 23, 2026

Both sides have expressed an interest in some limited ceasefire that involved grain and energy.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Sep 23, 2026

I think the fundamental challenge, and it's really at the core of what Iran needs to decide - do they want to be a country or do they want to be a revolution?

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Sep 23, 2026

I think slaughtering 10,000 of your own people in protests is a violation of the U.N. - I hope it's a violation of the U.N. principles.

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Kirsten Gillibrand
@kirstengillibrand· Democratic · NY· Sep 23, 2026

Republicans’ roster of corruption and candidates who have been a rubber stamp to Trump is very much affecting their campaigns.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 23, 2026

“Allowing one Trump-aligned, foreign-owned conglomerate to dominate American news and entertainment is a disastrous outcome. After the Trump administration ran an apparently corrupt antitrust review process to wave through a blatantly…

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Sep 23, 2026

It is unacceptable that President Trump has dragged the U.S. into a reckless war while failing to properly protect our service members from Iranian attacks and to give them the care they need.

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