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J.D. Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Sep 18, 2025

I want to let you know that whether you’re a Democrat or Republican, whatever your belief is, I will fight for your right to speak your mind.

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J.D. Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Sep 18, 2025

We reject political violence, and we reject the crazy left-wing radicals that gunned down our friend Charlie Kirk.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Sep 18, 2025

By refusing to work with Democrats, Republicans are steering our country straight toward a shutdown.

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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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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Sep 18, 2025

The House Republicans-only spending bill fails to meet the needs of the American people and does nothing to stop the looming healthcare crisis.

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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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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Sep 17, 2025

There's been some confusion, I think, around this lately, and frankly, coming from the White House and some of the other positions of authority that suggest, even before we had determined who the perpetrator of this evil act was, that…

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Sep 17, 2025

There are no ifs, ands or buts about it, the central premise of our democratic system is that we have to be able to disagree and have sometimes really contentious debates without resorting to violence.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Sep 17, 2025

Putting a gag order on a CDC director and directing her not to speak to those who have confirmed her and to whom she is responsible for oversight is a very serious matter.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Sep 17, 2025

We'll sit down and negotiate, if they will sit down and negotiate. We don't have a red line.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Sep 17, 2025

Again, no concern about your qualifications. I had concern about your backbone, and I was wrong, and I apologize to you for being wrong.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Sep 17, 2025

You got over the qualifications bar easily, but my worries about the direction of HHS made me question you very significantly on your backbone, a trait that is not in long supply in this town. And then when I voted against your…

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Ted Cruz
@tedcruz· Republican · TX· Sep 17, 2025

That statement is false. What you just said is false. What you just said is false, Kaitlan.

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Ted Cruz
@tedcruz· Republican · TX· Sep 17, 2025

You just said law enforcement has not laid out a motive. That is objectively false. That is objectively false.

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J.D. Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Sep 17, 2025

I want to let you know that whether you’re a Democrat or Republican — whatever your belief is — I will fight for your right to speak your mind.

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Deb Fischer
@debfischer· Republican · NE· Sep 17, 2025

This is something that we need to work on together.

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