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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 4, 2025

Any pause in intelligence sharing must end immediately.

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Mar 4, 2025

There are just very few Republicans who are raising the alarm about this because they know the target that that will put on their backs with respect to Donald Trump.

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Mar 4, 2025

I don't remember FDR saying to Winston Churchill, we're going to help you out, but we want that North Sea Oil. We want your coal.

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Mar 4, 2025

The Europeans understand both the values at stake here, which is do we care about democracies or do we just do whatever totalitarian murderous regimes want us to do?

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Mar 4, 2025

Many more Ukrainians will die because the Ukrainians will not have as much warning as they did previously of Russian attacks, and many fewer Russian military assets and people will be at risk.

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Feb 5, 2025

It's so unnecessary. It is so easy to convey these things through classified channels.

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Feb 4, 2025

It is evident to me that 2 weeks into the new administration, we no longer have a Congress and that we no longer take care that laws be faithfully executed. We passed a law that says TikTok must either be sold or be shut down, but that…

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Feb 4, 2025

An absolutely unnecessary counterintelligence risk was assumed today.

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Feb 4, 2025

We put a lot of people needlessly at risk here, including young people at the start of their careers.

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Jan 27, 2025

So the message that Donald Trump is sending here is that if you're a flag officer and you're doing what you think is right and constitutional, that's not good enough. You do what I tell you to do.

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Jan 27, 2025

But with the exception of Don Bacon, pretty much every other Republican member of the house and almost every Republican member of the Senate is a wholly owned subsidiary of Donald Trump.

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Jan 27, 2025

I bet he wasn't elected to make people hungry, to make them homeless, and to make sure that they couldn't heat their houses in the winter.

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Jan 27, 2025

No, never has a history -- in our 250-year history. Has a president said, stop all foreign aid, stop all spending?

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Jan 27, 2025

Congress has the power of the purse. And no, the president doesn't have the right to say, sorry, Congress, even though you appropriated it, I'm not going to spend it.

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Jan 23, 2025

Here we are on the final legislative day of inauguration week. As a Democrat, this was a week of mixed feelings for me and for my colleagues on this side of the aisle. I am also a genetic optimist, so on Monday, I went to the inauguration…

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Jan 23, 2025

I thank the gentleman from Virginia for his comments. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. Costa).

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Jan 23, 2025

I thank my colleague from Vermont for her words as we close this up. As is so often true in this Chamber, we heard lots of words, and I think they were powerful words, honoring those who protected us and honoring the truth, but what can we…

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Jan 23, 2025

I thank the gentleman from California for his comments. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Jackson).

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Jan 23, 2025

I thank the gentleman from Illinois for his words. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Vermont (Ms. Balint), my fellow New Englander.

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Jan 16, 2025

I'm concerned about the United States going down a path of banning apps and limiting American's access to content.

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Jan 1, 2025

Yeah, yeah. No. And sadly, there are examples. There have been you'll -- you'll recall a number of years ago, there are examples of military members, you know, breaking the law, doing horrible things. You know, very sadly, as we approach…

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Dec 16, 2024

And I asked probably in 12 different ways, is any of this federal government operations? You know, there's a lot of rumor out there that this is radiation sniffing or chemical sniffing. This is not a federal government operation.

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Jul 10, 2024

President is secure. He must not risk that legacy, urging him to step aside.

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Jul 10, 2024

It's because of those traits and in consideration of that legacy that I hope President Biden will step away from the presidential campaign.

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Jun 16, 2024

But yeah, there's lots of Ukrainians dying because China and India in particular, but other countries are purchasing Russian energy.

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