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Ted Cruz
@tedcruz· Republican · TX· Sep 19, 2025

No, no, no, no, no.

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Ted Cruz
@tedcruz· Republican · TX· Sep 19, 2025

I think it is unbelievably dangerous for government to put itself in the position of saying, ‘We’re going to decide what speech we like and what we don’t, and we’re going to threaten to take you off air if we don’t like what you’re saying.’

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Sep 19, 2025

We're prepared, when we get back, to have a vote on a bill already passed by the House, ready to be signed by the president.

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Ted Cruz
@tedcruz· Republican · TX· Sep 19, 2025

Look, look, I like Brendan Carr. He’s a good guy. He’s the chairman of the FCC. I work closely with him. But what he said there is dangerous as hell.

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Ted Cruz
@tedcruz· Republican · TX· Sep 19, 2025

Going down this road, there will come a time when a Democrat wins again – wins the White House … they will silence us. They will use this power, and they will use it ruthlessly. And that is dangerous.

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Ted Cruz
@tedcruz· Republican · TX· Sep 19, 2025

But let me tell you: If the government gets in the business of saying, ‘We don’t like what you, the media, have said. We’re going to ban you from the airwaves if you don’t say what we like,’ that will end up bad for conservatives.

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Ted Cruz
@tedcruz· Republican · TX· Sep 19, 2025

And it might feel good right now to threaten Jimmy Kimmel, but when it is used to silence every conservative in America, we will regret it.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Sep 19, 2025

Now that it's clear that neither bill will get the 60 votes that the Senate needs, it's time to negotiate.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Sep 19, 2025

The American people will look at what Republicans are doing, look at what Democrats are doing, and it will be clear that public sentiment will be on our side.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Sep 19, 2025

When we were in the majority for four years, there was not a shutdown. Not one. Why? Because we did what you're supposed to do: talk in a bipartisan negotiation and each side has input.

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Ted Cruz
@tedcruz· Republican · TX· Sep 19, 2025

And I gotta say, that’s right out of Goodfellas.

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Ted Cruz
@tedcruz· Republican · TX· Sep 19, 2025

But let me tell you, if the government gets in the business of saying, ‘We don’t like what you the media have said, we’re going to ban you from the airwaves if you don’t say what we like,’ that will end up bad for conservatives.

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J.D. Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Sep 19, 2025

The First Amendment protects a lot of very ugly speech, but if you celebrate Charlie Kirk’s death, you should not be protected from being fired for being a disgusting person.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Sep 18, 2025

The safeguards we put in place, the oversight this body provides, only work if intelligence officers know that they can tell the truth without losing their jobs.

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Kamala Harris
@kamalaharris· Democratic · CA· Sep 18, 2025

But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Sep 18, 2025

These are critical posts in one of our most important intelligence organizations, vacated not because of misconduct or failure, but because of the whims of a political provocateur whose public record is filled with hate and conspiracies.

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Raphael Warnock
@raphaelwarnock· Democratic · GA· Sep 18, 2025

Now the entire country can see what we in Georgia already know — Georgia’s Medicaid work reporting requirement program is the real waste, fraud, and abuse.

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