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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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Jul 20, 2025

The last question you asked the secretary shows what a con man he is.

cbsnews.com
Jul 20, 2025

Look, we need to acknowledge and every- and all of America saw it on the night of that disastrous debate in the July before the election that Joe Biden was not going to win the election.

cbsnews.com
Jul 20, 2025

This notion that Jay Powell is unilaterally stopping a decline in interest rates... would be absolutely bananas.

cbsnews.com
Jul 19, 2025

Every legitimate investigation, including the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee investigation, found no evidence of politicization and endorsed the findings of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment.

cnn.com
Jul 17, 2025

for all the rah-rah patriotism, think about this. Again, I will acknowledge that we don't know if this is a good idea or a bad idea, and we ought to find out. Let's imagine that the European Union, which Mr. Barr wants to dissociate…

govinfo.gov
Jun 27, 2025

It's pretty clear that there was no imminent threat to the United States.

cbsnews.com
Jun 26, 2025

The law requires the congressional intelligence committees to be kept fully and currently informed, and I expect the Intelligence Community to comply with the law.

truthout.org
Jun 25, 2025

[Iran's] alternative is to look at North Korea, which developed a bomb in secret.

newsweek.com
Jun 25, 2025

My worry is not that there's going to be a military attack on our naval assets in Bahrain or on our airfield in Qatar. My worry is that the Iranians....are going to do exactly what North Korea does.

newsweek.com
Jun 25, 2025

If you were an Iranian regime member...you would take the really critical stuff and you would move it away from you knew was going to be targeted.

newsweek.com
Jun 23, 2025

Anybody who says that they have any idea whatsoever about whether these raids did anything other than create a big boom and a lot of dust has no idea what they’re talking about.

cnn.com
Jun 22, 2025

It is impossible to know at this stage whether this operation accomplished its objectives.

breitbart.com
Jun 22, 2025

Trump’s decision to launch direct military action against Iran without Congressional approval is a clear violation of the Constitution.

breitbart.com
Jun 22, 2025

We also don’t know if this will lead to further escalation in the region and attacks against our forces.

breitbart.com
Jun 22, 2025

history suggests that you better be well aware of the fact that the best-case scenario almost never happens.

nbcnews.com
Jun 21, 2025

The president has taken a massive, massive gamble here.

motherjones.com
May 30, 2025

Absent evidence to justify the firings, the workforce can only conclude that their jobs are contingent on producing analysis that is aligned with the president’s political agenda, rather than truthful and apolitical.

nbcnews.com
May 25, 2025

We can take another path, which I hope the president will take, which is to say, what we need to do right now is generate maximum leverage against Vladimir Putin.

cbsnews.com
May 25, 2025

They're cutting Medicaid and nutritional assistance, food stamps, to tens of millions of Americans in order to preserve tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.

cbsnews.com
May 25, 2025

The American people want basically three things out of their federal budget. Number one, at this point in time, when Americans – the wealthiest Americans, are doing better than ever before, Americans want the wealthiest of the – of…

cbsnews.com
May 24, 2025

we're at a fork in the road with respect to the Russia-Ukraine war.

cbsnews.com
May 24, 2025

This bill fails spectacularly on all three counts.

cbsnews.com
May 24, 2025

the wealthiest of the Amer- of Americans to pay more taxes, and to give tax relief to the middle class and below.

cbsnews.com
May 24, 2025

this bill fails spectacularly on all three counts.

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