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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Aug 18, 2026

I will always fight to ensure New York’s rural communities have the resources they need to access affordable health care services.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Aug 18, 2026

When Keuka College leaders came to me asking for help to build a new Rural Community Outpatient Clinic, I promised I wouldn’t stop fighting until they got every penny they needed to build the health care facility the community deserves…

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Roger Marshall
@rogermarshall· Republican · KS· Aug 18, 2026

Election integrity is the heartbeat of our constitutional republic. Americans must have confidence in our elections. We must pass voter ID, require proof of citizenship, and strengthen guardrails around mail-in ballots.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Aug 18, 2026

The Trump administration — potentially in violation of federal law — has defunded and impeded civilian protection efforts.

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Kirsten Gillibrand
@kirstengillibrand· Democratic · NY· Aug 18, 2026

I continue to have deep concerns about how the school in particular was targeted, especially as the strike was deliberately planned for the first day of the conflict and did not occur amid the fog of war.

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Bill Cassidy
@billcassidy· Republican · LA· Aug 18, 2026

The point is that when you’re making the decision process, you’re taking in everything at once. And you just make the best decision that presents at the time

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Bill Cassidy
@billcassidy· Republican · LA· Aug 18, 2026

People can draw their own conclusions, but it’s pretty evident that that was the White House and the RFK pledge — RFK may say, technically this is the president, not him, and technically he’s right

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Bill Cassidy
@billcassidy· Republican · LA· Aug 18, 2026

There are guarantees that were given to me and guarantees that were supposedly going to be enforced by the White House. Among those were not to affect the [Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices] schedule

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Bill Cassidy
@billcassidy· Republican · LA· Aug 18, 2026

You’ve lost sight of affordability for the parent. You’ve lost sight of the convenience for the American family. You’ve lost sight of that which is driving higher costs in healthcare — for example, more doctor’s visits

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Bill Cassidy
@billcassidy· Republican · LA· Aug 18, 2026

Right now, there is not three different vaccines. There’s only these three combined. And why did they combine them? To make it more convenient for the parent, to make fewer jabs for the child

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Bill Cassidy
@billcassidy· Republican · LA· Aug 18, 2026

So, if you’re going to tell me that somebody didn’t tell me the truth, and I should have like, you know, seen in the future that they were not going to tell the truth.

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Bill Cassidy
@billcassidy· Republican · LA· Aug 18, 2026

The policy that the president just put forward is going to decrease immunization rates aside from being less convenient and costing families more.

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Bill Cassidy
@billcassidy· Republican · LA· Aug 18, 2026

And that means that we should be working to increase immunization rates, not to decrease them.

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Bill Cassidy
@billcassidy· Republican · LA· Aug 18, 2026

Yeah. Again, people always want to bring that up, and all I can say is you have to live life living forward.

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Jon Ossoff
@jonossoff· Democratic · GA· Aug 18, 2026

He doesn’t want to do the job,” Ossoff said. “He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar.

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Mark Kelly
@markkelly· Democratic · AZ· Aug 18, 2026

Our ability to help defend our ally against the North Koreans is because our forces are well trained and able to coordinate with the South Koreans.

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Thom Tillis
@thomtillis· Republican · NC· Aug 18, 2026

Reducing joint exercises with South Korea does nothing more than free up thousands of North Korea’s troops to support Putin’s systematic kidnapping, torture, rape and murder of innocent Ukrainian citizens.

theguardian.com
Andy Kim
@andykim· Democratic · NJ· Aug 18, 2026

Our alliance with the Republic of Korea is critical for US security and prosperity – and I am concerned that President Trump’s post today suggests a disregard for this relationship.

theguardian.com
Mark Kelly
@markkelly· Democratic · AZ· Aug 18, 2026

North and South Korea are still technically at war. Our ability to help defend our ally against the North Koreans is because our forces are well trained and able to coordinate with the South Koreans. Hollowing out these joint exercises is…

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Aug 18, 2026

When President Trump cuts military exercises to flatter a dictator or punishes South Korea for declining to join a war he started, all of our allies – and adversaries – think that America’s commitments are negotiable.

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John Cornyn
@johncornyn· Republican · TX· Aug 18, 2026

My constituents believe that the 1,000-foot riverbank cliffs and remote Big Bend terrain offers its own sources of deterrence for any illegal migrants crossing into the United States.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Aug 18, 2026

This should be stopped immediately: Shasta County Registrar Clint Curtis is trying to hire election-denier Tina Peters to collude with the Trump Administration’s election mischief.

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