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William Warren
@williamwarren· Democratic · MA· Oct 31, 2025

The Trust for the National Mall appears to have become a vehicle for favor-seeking and possible corruption.

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John Hickenlooper
@johnhickenlooper· Democratic · CO· Oct 31, 2025

You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t. I can’t remember a situation where I felt there were less palatable choices.

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Markwayne Mullin
@markwaynemullin· Republican · OK· Oct 31, 2025

They’re setting everything up for next week. They know they’ve got to get out.

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Chris Van Hollen
@chrisvanhollen· Democratic · MD· Oct 31, 2025

Trump should spend less time traveling around the world and more time negotiating an end to his shutdown.

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William Warren
@williamwarren· Democratic · MA· Oct 31, 2025

billionaires and giant corporations with business in front of the Trump administration are not coughing up millions of dollars to build Trump’s ballroom out of concern for the National Mall.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Oct 31, 2025

a new low for the administration and corrosive to our democracy

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Raphael Warnock
@raphaelwarnock· Democratic · GA· Oct 31, 2025

How am I supposed to choose between those two constituencies? I care about all those people.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Oct 31, 2025

The issue that I’ve always been focused on ... is a deal, a deal?

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Kamala Harris
@kamalaharris· Democratic · CA· Oct 31, 2025

I’m not going to be distracted by, ‘Oh, does the guy have a big f–king hammer!?’ What about those babies!?

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Kamala Harris
@kamalaharris· Democratic · CA· Oct 31, 2025

This guy wants to create a ballroom for his rich friends while completely turning a blind eye to the fact that babies are going to starve when the SNAP benefits end in just hours from now. Come on.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Oct 31, 2025

Shutting Democrats out of a briefing on U.S. military strikes and withholding the legal justification for those strikes from half the Senate is indefensible and dangerous.

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Oct 31, 2025

The simplest way to end it and the simplest way to make sure that people are getting the food assistance they need is to pick up the bill and give us five votes.

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Marsha Blackburn
@marshablackburn· Republican · TN· Oct 31, 2025

Verizon willfully handed over my call logs to the Biden FBI without hesitation, empowering Jack Smith’s witch hunt targeting Republicans for political gain.

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Oct 31, 2025

This nonpartisan, independent organization is about to be enmeshed in the very perilous quicksand of Donald Trump’s donation scheme for his ballroom.

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Oct 31, 2025

If we want to win the competition with China, we need to think well beyond the next election and even the next decade.

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Oct 30, 2025

American families are being squeezed by prices going up and up and up.

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Oct 30, 2025

The Senate is not a spectator to the workings of the federal government.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Oct 30, 2025

This approach risks creating turf battles and undermining the effectiveness of our Intelligence Community.

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