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When people are in crisis and find themselves trapped in confined spaces, how quickly our first responders are able to conduct search and rescue often depends on these workers’ access to modern, reliable technology to save precious time.

I know him from working with him in the Senate before he became secretary. I have no reason to think that he's not telling me the truth. But my motto, as with Ronald Reagan, is trust but verify.

One of your qualifications is to tell the truth to power and you will not answer reasonable questions.

There's been some discussion earlier about the importance of analytical integrity. Telling truth to power.

I’m gonna wait until we actually vote on the confirmation in a week or so.

I continue to have some concerns, but I’m not going to make any decisions at this point.

Well he basically confirmed that it’s not dead.

Breaking up the healthcare conglomerates that have enriched themselves by immiserating patients and cheating employers is good policy.

The last thing that the American people need is just more consolidation and less diversity, especially when it comes to information and broadcasting and news.

Congress set the national television ownership cap at 39 percent, and only Congress — not the FCC — has the authority to change it. It is clear that Chairman Carr is once again doing President Trump’s bidding.

As I mentioned in February during our hearing on this matter, I am skeptical a change can be made absent an act of Congress. I look forward to reviewing the full order when it is released tomorrow to get more detail on the FCC’s precise…

If there’s anyone in the country who demands more attention, it’s the president, and I think that behavior is very dangerous to the court and to the whole system.

Kennedy has spent sixteen months using his official position to undermine the health and well-being of his fellow Americans, and now he is using his official position to undermine the integrity of democratic elections too.

“I believe that all of us must avoid that kind of dangerous and disturbing rhetoric, because it could in fact trigger violence,” Collins added.

“It’s appalling to me that some of the rhetoric is coming from public officials on both sides of the aisle who should know better than to levy personal and political attacks against the judiciary and the court specifically,” Collins said.

Overheated language” about the justices “could in fact trigger violence.

The idea that Democrats are to blame for the Trump administration’s failure to deploy body cameras to the field and to protect people from out-of-control agents that they have failed to properly train is completely absurd.

It’s been this administration’s refusal to quickly put in place basic accountability measures like requiring body cameras.

But to be fair to the Department of Homeland Security, they couldn’t enter into contracts when the government was shut down by the Democrats.

What appears to have happened is that there now has been ... somewhat of an increase of ICE activities before the additional training and body-worn cameras were deployed.

They don’t have them yet. The orders were placed, but they couldn’t [process] the orders when the government was shut down.

We should not hold out hope for a sudden outbreak of courage and integrity among elected Republicans in Washington.

I don’t think they’re gonna do anything about it.

It’s not even new that in private conversations a huge number of my Republican colleagues have contempt for the president.