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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 9, 2025

No society can survive when one man becomes a trillionaire while the working class struggles to survive. This cannot stand.

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Ruben Gallego
@rubengallego· Democratic · AZ· Sep 9, 2025

comes from a sense of patriotism, you know, as someone who served this country, as someone who unfortunately buried a lot of Marines with full military honors.

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Ruben Gallego
@rubengallego· Democratic · AZ· Sep 9, 2025

The idea that they're giving this to a person who actively tried to overthrow the government, who was violent in nature, who knowingly was entering a restrictive zone while we were trying to conduct the safe passage of democracy, and the…

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Ruben Gallego
@rubengallego· Democratic · AZ· Sep 9, 2025

I'm gonna put people on the record to make sure that we know who stood with your traitor, Ashli Babbitt.

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Bill Cassidy
@billcassidy· Republican · LA· Sep 9, 2025

These scores clearly show the K-12 system is failing children and families.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 9, 2025

This is not only grossly immoral. It is insane economics.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Sep 9, 2025

Another $900 billion for Elon Musk, while 60% live paycheck to paycheck? Really?

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Bill Cassidy
@billcassidy· Republican · LA· Sep 9, 2025

To protect children’s health, Americans need to know what has happened and is happening at the CDC.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Sep 9, 2025

This budget potentially won’t be worth the paper it’s written on, because the president isn’t implementing the law.

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Sep 9, 2025

I think there are a lot of options, and hopefully this will continue to be on the table.

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J.D. Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Sep 9, 2025

Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Sep 9, 2025

It’s a war. It’s a war on killers. It’s a war on terror.

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Bill Cassidy
@billcassidy· Republican · LA· Sep 9, 2025

If the meeting proceeds, any recommendations made should be rejected as lacking legitimacy given the seriousness of the allegations and the current turmoil in CDC leadership.

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Sep 8, 2025

It’s time to take steps to restore Senate precedent and codify in Senate rules what once was understood to be standard practice — and that is the Senate acting expeditiously on presidential nominations to allow a president to get his team…

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Sep 8, 2025

If Republicans go nuclear, the historically bad nominees we’ve seen so far under Donald Trump will get only worse.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Sep 8, 2025

Sen. Thune was very involved. He seemed very willing to come up with an agreement, and then, at the last minute, of course, Donald Trump said, literally, to me, ‘Go to hell.’ And the talks fell apart.

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