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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

Another is a ruling from District Court Judge Sykes earlier this month requiring federal immigration officials to provide clean drinking water and adequate medical care for those held at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

We’re reminded by the findings of a court-appointed monitor that the California City Detention Center has failed to comply with a judge’s order to provide adequate healthcare.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

The American people deserve better than that. We owe them a government where public office is a public trust, not a private enterprise.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

If we care about preserving our democracy for future generations, corruption must not just be called out; it must be met with action.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

Corruption is his governing philosophy, and it doesn’t–it’s not just him and his family.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Jul 31, 2026

Trump has turned the presidency into the most profitable scam of his life, and Republicans have helped him cash every check.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jul 31, 2026

When a president uses the office for personal profit, that is not ‘just the way it is,’ despite what Trump wants you to believe.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jul 31, 2026

Chairman, really, this is a question for you. And it’s a question to try to figure out how do we get a good answer on this.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jul 31, 2026

The Wuhan Institute of Virology… being, as was noted by many people, the only lab in the world that was doing research like this that had a lower standard of actually their security standards there than many other labs around the world.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jul 31, 2026

If we’re going to fund research and cooperate with you, we’ve got to have certain things from you.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jul 31, 2026

It’s not just our cooperation with Chinese scientists. It’s our acknowledgment that China covered up their data, wouldn’t allow our scientists to be able to come in.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jul 31, 2026

On May 6th, 2020 you wrote, at that time, ‘I had a conversation with Robert Redfield’... ‘This is terrible and needs to be addressed, since on that basis alone there would be far, far more excess deaths from measles among children than…

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jul 31, 2026

Countless families, including my own, watched a loved one die behind glass or through a screen because we couldn’t get access to them.

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Jul 31, 2026

For more than a quarter century, FDA has repeatedly and consistently affirmed that mifepristone is safe.

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Jul 31, 2026

Decades after FDA’s initial approval of mifepristone and years after the in-person dispensing requirement was eliminated, Louisiana now seeks to re-impose this onerous nationwide restriction on all Americans.

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Jul 31, 2026

For the good of our country, the rule of law, and the American people, we demand that you change course and restore the previously awarded funding.

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Jul 31, 2026

At a time when energy prices are skyrocketing, the administration is hell-bent on political retribution instead of working to bring down costs for millions of Americans.

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Jul 31, 2026

Once an administration begins punishing Americans for how they vote, the threat extends far beyond these projects: no state, community, business, or worker can trust that the federal government will apply the law fairly.

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Jul 31, 2026

Now that court documents have confirmed what we knew to be true, we write to demand that you restore previously awarded funding that the Trump administration has weaponized in an attempt to punish perceived political enemies.

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Jul 31, 2026

While we were unable to reverse these harmful changes, I will keep fighting to make childcare more affordable.

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Jul 31, 2026

Today, Senate Republicans voted to keep a Trump Administration policy that will make childcare more expensive and less accessible for many of those families.

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Jul 31, 2026

“More than 15,000 low-income families in Washington rely on the Child Care and Development Fund,” said Sen. Cantwell.

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Jul 31, 2026

If we're going to get our fiscal house in order, the least we can do is fund our own tax accounts receivable function.

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