Tariffs are an important economic tool to level the playing field for U.S. workers and reshore key industries, but they must be employed with careful consideration, as part of a broader industrial strategy.
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VAMark R. WarnerVirginia360 Quotes
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Former senators
We urge you to reject any efforts by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to compensate January 6 rioters for their crimes and to commit to vigorously defending American taxpayers.
Although a federal judge has enjoined the slush fund, there are other plans to undermine the American justice system to pay out January 6 rioters, including those convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers.
This resolution rejects hateful policies that terrorize our immigrant neighbors and calls on the Senate to invest in inclusion, celebrate the contributions of immigrants, and honor our nation’s human rights commitments.
I won’t stop until we roll back all of the cuts to our social safety net and reverse the billionaire tax cuts.
Donald Trump is the most unpopular president in the recent history of this country. And so he is trying to rig the election in part by creating this national…
We just choose not to because we've become okay with dozens and dozens of people in this country making hundreds of billions of dollars.
In the most affluent, most powerful country in the world, if you work full time, you should be able to pay your bills.
The question on this anniversary is whether we have the wisdom and the courage to keep it. I hope today’s hearing rises to that challenge.
That is not the rule of law. That is weaponization. That is corruption not behind closed doors. And it is precisely what the Founders feared when they built this republic.
To see them delayed is a dismissal of the rights and needs of people with disabilities.
OMB’s proposal unlawfully seeks to substitute Congress’s role in directing federal spending with the President’s preferred priorities, and in doing so, makes it harder for every community and organization in the United States to fairly…
Rather than focusing on fulfilling the statutory purposes of a grant program, applicants and recipients will be forced to play an endless guessing game, trying to determine which of their activities may or may not run afoul of OMB’s…
Taiwan remaining free and independent is important to our national security.
Presidents come, presidents go, but the commitment to our role on the global stage remains.
It really is critical to not yield even an inch to President Xi, and that’s why I really wanted to go to Taiwan at this time.
We’re not going to spend any time trying to persuade the unpersuadable.
We can do that in a Congress that’s willing to do that, especially if we’re willing to reform the filibuster, which is one of the things in the Senate that’s stopping us from having the kind of democratic reforms that we want to have…





