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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Jun 25, 2026

Republicans’ cruel assault on reproductive healthcare has left millions of women with no option but to travel out of state for the care they need.

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Jun 25, 2026

Women are bearing these unbelievable tragedies in their life, but they're also bearing all this extra cost because somebody promulgated this rule on our health care system.

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Jun 25, 2026

Four years after Dobbs, women are worse off. They are traveling farther, paying more, and facing greater barriers to care. Since Idaho imposed a restrictive abortion ban, more than one-third of the state’s OB-GYNs have left – and women are…

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Jun 25, 2026

Housing is a crisis in America and huge bipartisan majorities passed this bill on to the President’s desk. He should now sign it or pledge not to veto it. Doing anything else is just sticking Americans with higher housing costs.

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Jun 25, 2026

We urge you to honor that commitment by abandoning these proposals and to further reject any legislation that would permanently cut off these benefits to veterans.

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Jun 25, 2026

We are equally opposed to the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act because it codifies the same harmful reductions in benefits for veterans with tinnitus and sleep apnea benefits.

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Jun 25, 2026

We urge you to listen to the growing opposition from veterans and publicly commit to addressing their concerns.

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Jun 25, 2026

We write in strong opposition to a proposed reduction in benefits for more than one million veterans suffering from sleep apnea and tinnitus outlined in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) draft rule.

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Tommy Tuberville
@tommytuberville· Republican · AL· Jun 25, 2026

Seems like every time I call for customer service, it comes from India. Is that correct? Are they as much complicit?

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Tommy Tuberville
@tommytuberville· Republican · AL· Jun 25, 2026

Mr. Miller, China is known for its investment fraud and scam centers. What do these criminal enterprises look like? And is the Chinese Communist Party or [its] syndicates with their protection or approval—are they approving these?

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Jun 25, 2026

Our story is stronger when we tell it in its entirety – the good and bad, the challenging chapters, the rough places, the foundational sins, the wrongs, and the arc towards a more perfect union.

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Jun 25, 2026

Ultimately, the American story is not simply one story. We are a nation founded not on one ethnicity or one language, one religion or one history, but on an idea.

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Jun 25, 2026

I will do whatever I can to ensure that our service members have what they need to defend themselves, and our military is ready to face down the threats of the modern age.

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Jun 25, 2026

But if this supplemental request is in fact a backdoor to authorizing the war in Iran it will not have my vote.

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Jun 25, 2026

Our nation’s military has real needs, from filling significant munitions backlogs – partly created by President Trump’s war of choice in Iran – to protecting our troops and bases from the lethal, cheap drones that are a fact of modern…

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Mark R. Warner
@markrwarner· VA· Jun 25, 2026

Accordingly, we insist that the Postal Service abandon this proposed regulation and return to its core mission of providing universal postal services to every American. The Constitution and federal law demand nothing less.

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Mark R. Warner
@markrwarner· VA· Jun 25, 2026

Ultimately, the proposed rule seeks to create a centralized national absentee voter database with individualized barcodes connected to the voters’ names under the control of the President that contains the voting information of millions of…

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Mark R. Warner
@markrwarner· VA· Jun 25, 2026

We write for a second time regarding the unconstitutional and illegal attempt to transform the United States Postal Service into an election administration agency controlled by the White House and President Trump.

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John Hoeven
@johnhoeven· Republican · ND· Jun 25, 2026

We appreciate our Senate colleagues for joining us in passing this bill, and we look forward to moving it through the House.

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John Hoeven
@johnhoeven· Republican · ND· Jun 25, 2026

I look forward to moving this legislation forward and passing a strong Farm Bill that maintains our nation’s network of family farms and ranches.

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John Hoeven
@johnhoeven· Republican · ND· Jun 25, 2026

This legislation builds on our long-term priorities of strengthening the farm safety net, advancing ag research and securing market access for our producers.

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John Hoeven
@johnhoeven· Republican · ND· Jun 25, 2026

We appreciate Chairman Boozman for working with us to write a Farm Bill that is all about supporting the farmers and ranchers who ensure Americans continue to have access to the highest-quality, lowest-cost food supply in the world.

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Martin Heinrich
@martinheinrich· Democratic · NM· Jun 25, 2026

Getting students to college is only part of the equation — we also need to make sure they have the tools and support to finish,

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John Curtis
@johncurtis· Republican · UT· Jun 25, 2026

Utah’s firefighters shouldn’t have to worry that the gear designed to keep them safe could expose them to harmful chemicals.

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