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Jim Himes

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Jim Himes is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 4th congressional district since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he has focused on issues such as economic growth, healthcare, and national security during his tenure in Congress. Himes has been an advocate for democratic norms and transparency in government, often emphasizing the importance of the intelligence community in national discussions.

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Mar 21, 2017

I don't know how you tell the American people that after looking at an information, sharing it with the president and running it to the White House, which is the subject of the investigation, no, don't worry, we can still do an impartial…

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Mar 21, 2017

Well, it's sort of hard to do that, isn't it? I mean, this isn't a one-off.

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Mar 21, 2017

We rise and fall on our ability to innovate.

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Mar 21, 2017

All I can tell you is you just saw a wildly irregular action by the chairman of the committee charged with being objective and thorough in an investigation just fly down the street to the White House and, lo and behold, immediately…

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Mar 21, 2017

This is just the most pathetic fig leaf because it has absolutely nothing to do with President Obama potentially wiretapping Donald Trump in Trump Tower but it allows these guys I guess to tick a box and show America that maybe they were…

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Mar 21, 2017

we as Democrats are not sticking around in the face of this behavior, or the face of other instructions. We are not going to lend some bipartisan sheen to what is starting to look more and more like an effort to back up Donald Trump, to…

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Mar 20, 2017

It feels to me like there are four or five people here that we must speak to. Now, they may choose to not to come voluntarily, in which case we would need to issue a subpoena.

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Mar 20, 2017

This was a sort of bizarre moment in history when the president of the United States for the first time in our history wouldn't stand up against a clearly antagonistic power.

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Mar 20, 2017

Donald Trump not only doesn't criticize Putin for doing that, he sort of holding him harmless.

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Mar 20, 2017

You know, I've run five campaigns. I don't know how you could convince anybody that your campaign chairman, that is somehow a limited role.

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Mar 20, 2017

Whether he registered or not is not something that you can't comment on?

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Feb 14, 2017

Every single one of those measures, of course, was opposed by my friends on the other side of the aisle.

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Feb 14, 2017

I was here 8 years ago, sworn-in, in a month when the economy lost almost three-quarters of a million jobs.

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Feb 14, 2017

I wonder, as an economist, whether you agree that our growth rate has been in some way artificially held back.

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Feb 14, 2017

Apparently, growth of 2 percent is not the 4 percent promised by President Trump.

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Feb 14, 2017

I am a big believer in preserving monetary independence or independence for the monetary authorities.

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Feb 7, 2017

None of the terrorist attacks that have occurred in the United States since 9/11 have been undertaken by the refugees or immigrants from the seven countries that are named in the executive order.

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Jan 30, 2017

This Sunday I was out on the road amongst my constituents when at about midday, I started to get panicked emails from the doctors of Yale New Haven Hospital because one of their own, Tarek Alasil, an ophthalmologist of Syrian dissent, an…

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Nov 16, 2016

With all due respect to the gentleman from Michigan, once again, we find ourselves in this dreary and dangerous ritual of considering a bill which, without question, would cause us to violate our agreement under the JCPOA. We get the same…

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Nov 14, 2016

I have struggled to get either Justice or any of the regulators or anybody to say that one simple way...

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Nov 14, 2016

At the end of the day, we are just sort of asking for some scrutiny here.

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