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Ed Perlmutter

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Ed Perlmutter is a Democratic politician who served as a U.S. Representative for Colorado's 7th congressional district from 2007 until 2023. During his time in Congress, he focused on issues such as healthcare, renewable energy, and economic development. Perlmutter was known for his work on the House Financial Services Committee and his advocacy for small businesses and job creation in Colorado. He has been an active voice in promoting policies aimed at improving the lives of his constituents and addressing pressing national issues.

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Mar 31, 2022

I remind my friend, Mr. Arrington, that there are 12 million acres of nonproducing Federal land with 9,000 unused but already approved permits for production. Mr. Speaker, I would also like to wish Mr. Arrington a happy birthday. Mr…

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Mar 31, 2022

We are here about reducing prices on insulin, something that so many Americans need. Yet, my colleagues want to talk about a bill that is not even before the House of Representatives today. We ought to be talking about reducing the price…

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Mar 31, 2022

I remind my friend from Minnesota who was talking about party-line votes, we want to bring down the cost of prescription drugs, whether it is insulin or across the board, which we have done in the Build Back Better bill that is sitting in…

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Mar 31, 2022

For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentlewoman from Minnesota (Mrs. Fischbach), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for…

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Mar 16, 2022

At the end of the day, Mr. Rose can agree with me or disagree with me on that.

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Mar 16, 2022

I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, I want to thank staff, both sides.

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Mar 16, 2022

It is the 820,000 people that I represent that are the ones that are going to make a determination as to whether or not I have done right by them

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Mar 16, 2022

Ms. Sanchez' testimony is about as compelling as anything I have ever heard.

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Mar 16, 2022

We have got to be in this century. We can't just deny where we have come.

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Mar 16, 2022

And I don't think we need to police each other.

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Mar 16, 2022

I think we ought to just do everything by remote.

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Mar 1, 2022

I thank you for your service, sir. I thank you for keeping us out of a recession. I think we built a better America by staying out of a recession.

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Mar 1, 2022

The Congress, led by the Democrats, took some pretty substantial and dramatic steps, including the CARES Act, the American Rescue Plan, the infrastructure bill, to build a better America and to help us get out of what looked like it could…

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Feb 28, 2022

I thank the gentleman for his personal remarks about how important the mail--receiving mail and receiving communication--is. There were 7 million people in the European theater during World War II, and there were many names that were…

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Feb 28, 2022

I ask my friend from Ohio--and I thank him for his remarks--if he has any other speakers. If not, I was hoping Ms. Moore would be here, but I am prepared to close. I reserve the balance of my time.

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Feb 15, 2022

I would consider everything that I do is district business and it is not my business.

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Feb 15, 2022

We ought to take a look at some of those ethics rules, because we just pile them on and we never go back...

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Feb 15, 2022

I think we end up tripping over ourselves. We really ought to go back and kind of do a look at some of the ethics rules...

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Feb 15, 2022

Our goal is to be able to, you know, hand it off to a Democrat or Republican, hopefully a Democrat, but hand it off in as clean a fashion as possible

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Feb 15, 2022

We get treated like second-class citizens out here in the hinterlands.

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Feb 15, 2022

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And Danielle Radovich has been my chief of staff for the whole time we have been here...

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Jan 19, 2022

I think we have made some strides on technology. And part of it, you know, was intentional, and part of it was necessity is the mother of invention.

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