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Mark Kelly

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Mark Edward Kelly is an American politician, engineer, and former astronaut currently serving as the junior United States senator from Arizona. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected to the Senate in a special election held in November 2020 and officially took office on December 2, 2020. Kelly has focused on various issues during his tenure, including veterans' affairs, healthcare, and gun control, reflecting his commitment to public service and safety.

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Nov 24, 2025

You can refuse illegal orders.

nytimes.com
Nov 23, 2025

If Putin gets the chance with that deal to, you know, rearm… rebuild his economy and gain territory, by the way, that's what he wanted.

cbsnews.com
Nov 23, 2025

That plan, that's Putin's plan. That is a very good deal for Russia. It is a horrible deal for Ukraine.

cbsnews.com
Nov 23, 2025

I'm not going to be intimidated. You know, you just heard Jason Crow. He's not going to be intimidated either.

cbsnews.com
Nov 23, 2025

The message he sent a couple days ago was, he declared that loyalty to the Constitution is now punishable by death.

cbsnews.com
Nov 22, 2025

Refuse illegal orders

slate.com
Nov 21, 2025

What’s most telling is that the President considers it punishable by death for us to restate the law.

latimes.com
Nov 21, 2025

He has talked about sending troops into more U.S. cities, he's talked about invoking the Insurrection Act.

abcnews.go.com
Nov 21, 2025

I think it's important to say that there is nothing more American than standing up for the Constitution, that's what we were doing. President didn't like it, so now he calls for us to be hanged.

abcnews.go.com
Oct 30, 2025

The off ramp is: Let’s get in a room. Let’s get the president actually in a room. Let’s get him to focus on this for more than an hour.

msnbc.com
Oct 19, 2025

They need to get in the room and stay in the room until we can hash this out.

cbsnews.com
Oct 19, 2025

This is more important than any single person. This is about our democracy at this point.

cbsnews.com
Oct 19, 2025

Regime change hasn't ever really worked out well for us as a nation where we have supported that.

cbsnews.com
Oct 19, 2025

We should be able to wrap this up this week, if they will sit down and have a negotiation with us.

cbsnews.com
Oct 19, 2025

They had a very hard time explaining to us ... the legal rationale for doing this and the constitutionality of doing it.

cbsnews.com
Oct 19, 2025

The president has spent one hour negotiating this issue with leadership in Congress.

cbsnews.com
Oct 19, 2025

We want negotiations on how to fix this skyrocketing premium.

cbsnews.com
Oct 19, 2025

This is about our democracy at this point, and those admirals and generals, they need to speak truth to power.

cbsnews.com
Oct 19, 2025

I would like to – we should – we could – we should be able to wrap this up this week if they will sit down and have a negotiation with us.

cbsnews.com
Oct 19, 2025

Well, I hope not. Regime change hasn't ever really worked out well for us as a nation where we have supported that, whether it was in Vietnam, Cuba, Iraq, Afghanistan.

cbsnews.com
Oct 15, 2025

We currently do not have representation in the U.S. House of Representatives, and that is wrong.

nbcnews.com
Oct 14, 2025

I think he's the key. He needs to get engaged on it.

cbsnews.com
Oct 8, 2025

It didn’t even seem that he understood what these premium tax credits were.

msnbc.com
Oct 8, 2025

Seven-hundred-thousand people do not have representation right now.

nbcnews.com
Sep 14, 2025

I immediately thought back to the day in 2011 when I got that phone call. And I know Erika, his wife, got a similar call.

nbcnews.com

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