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Greg Stanton

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Gregory John Stanton is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Arizona's 9th congressional district since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Stanton has focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and economic development during his time in office. He previously served as the mayor of Phoenix from 2012 to 2013, where he worked on initiatives to improve public safety and transportation in the city. Stanton has been an advocate for immigration reform and has supported policies aimed at enhancing the quality of life for his constituents in Arizona.

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Feb 5, 2019

Gun violence happens every single day in America.

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Feb 5, 2019

The American people deserve better.

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Feb 5, 2019

When this Congress finally does pass H.R. 8, and I think we will, it will honor you.

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Jan 31, 2019

It is time for Congress to act and rebuild with us.

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Jan 28, 2019

I want to ask the witnesses here, particularly Ms. Gupta and Ms. Ifill, to talk about the benefits--if this Congress does do the right thing and restore the Voting Rights Act.

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Jan 28, 2019

The American people in a bipartisan way are in favor of these positive reforms.

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Jan 28, 2019

I am proud that in the 116th Congress the very first bill that was introduced is the 'For the People Act.'

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Mar 1, 2016

Weak words are not enough. Failure to call ISIS a mass murderer of Christians, Muslims, and other groups in addition to Yezidis by its proper name, genocide, would be an active denial as grave as U.S. refusal to recognize the Rwandan…

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Dec 8, 2015

Certain groups are being targeted, and let's call what that means. Let's call out the right name and that is called genocide.

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Dec 8, 2015

When lesser terms, weaker terms, are used it is a sure indicator of an unwillingness to act.

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Dec 8, 2015

About 1.5 million in Iraq alone, Christians, were there before the second Iraq war.

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Dec 8, 2015

I am asking again that the administration work within the United Nations Security Council to convene such a war crimes tribunal.

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Dec 8, 2015

Two years ago I introduced a resolution and tried to get the administration, I wrote on behalf of it in the Washington Post, to create a Syrian war crimes tribunal to hold all sides to account for atrocities.

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Dec 8, 2015

I think the letter that you provided as an addendum as part of your testimony, Mr. Anderson, laid it out very clearly, and others have done so as well as to how that would be a mistake of monumental proportions to exclude a group of people…

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Dec 8, 2015

When genocide became the word that described the crime then action would be taken.

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Dec 8, 2015

Why is it important to use the word 'genocide'? Some people say, well, we can just call them crimes against humanity...

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Dec 8, 2015

Soon the State Department is likely to recognize the Yazidi genocide, based not only on an excellent U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum report...

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Dec 8, 2015

State's failure to call ISIS' mass murder of Christians, Muslims, and other groups in addition to Yazidis, by its proper name 'genocide' would be an act of denial as grave as U.S. refusal to recognize the Rwandan genocide in 1994.

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Oct 5, 2015

The strategies that we're using to end chronic homelessness among veterans are the exact same strategies that we're going to use to end chronic homelessness among the broader population.

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