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Rubén Gallego

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Rubén Gallego is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Arizona's 7th congressional district since January 6, 2015. Born on November 20, 1979, he has focused on issues such as veterans' affairs, immigration reform, and education during his time in office. Gallego, a former Marine, has been an advocate for military families and has worked to improve access to healthcare for veterans. He has also been involved in efforts to address gun violence and climate change.

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Jun 1, 2025

chaos that doesn’t bring any more security

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May 19, 2025

prevent corporations from using Trump's reckless tariffs as an excuse to price gouge hardworking Americans.

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May 10, 2025

I'm sure you guys heard like, 'Oh, well, the Democrats need to have their own Joe Rogan.' We had Joe Rogan. We canceled Joe Rogan years ago.

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May 10, 2025

You have to get a lot of votes, and that means we're going to have to have alliances with people that we may not agree with 100% of the time, right?

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May 10, 2025

People don't vote for a party, right? It's us that run as Democrats. We need to be the face of the party, and we need to be out there.

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May 10, 2025

What happened the last election is that we got so pure, and we kept so pure that we started kicking people out of the tent.

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May 10, 2025

The problem is that we are too effing safe all the time.

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May 10, 2025

I think the Democrats messed up by not really focusing on that.

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May 8, 2025

running for president has 'f---ing of course' crossed his mind, while insisting it’s not on his immediate radar.

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May 8, 2025

Big donors, big organizations, well-known political big Democratic operatives that have encouraged me to run. I’m not denying that.

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May 8, 2025

They want to hear that there is a message that Democrats can deliver that can bring the party back to a winning situation — bring back working-class people, because that’s where we’re really getting f---ed and losing votes.

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May 8, 2025

I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 2 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?

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May 8, 2025

I think there’s still a lot of elements within our party that take a very knee-jerk reaction to border security and think that any type of border security is somehow acquiescing to the right.

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May 8, 2025

I think it’s a good thing that we have border crossings at the lowest point possible.

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May 8, 2025

They’re going to have to have the belief that Democrats are gonna be sane on border security, sane on immigration reform.

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May 8, 2025

we made some great progress this past week. I greatly--greatly--appreciate the work that we have done in a bipartisan manner. I want to thank my fellow colleagues across the aisle: Senator Warner, Senators Lummis, Hagerty, Chairman Scott…

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Apr 10, 2025

The sequence of Trump's posts on social media and the market increase raised grave legal and ethics concerns.

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Mar 20, 2025

We have to fight them down. We have to grind them to the point where they give up on this fight.

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Mar 13, 2025

I think we should do a retrospective.

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Mar 13, 2025

Let’s not kid ourselves. This is a bad resolution that gives Elon Musk and his cronies permission to continue cutting veterans’ benefits.

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Mar 12, 2025

Congressman Grijalva was not just my colleague, but my friend.

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Mar 3, 2025

I invited Kyle to the State of the Union because I want Trump, Musk, and their DOGE minions to look him in the eyes and see the faces of the people their reckless chaos is hurting.

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Mar 3, 2025

Look, if you’re running and you don’t have any other identity and you’re not known for fighting for people to have a decent living...

nbcnews.com
Mar 1, 2025

Everything we need to be doing is make sure to remind people that whatever the president’s doing right now, whatever Elon Musk’s doing now, is not making your life any better.

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