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Richard Blumenthal

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Richard Blumenthal is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Connecticut since 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, Blumenthal has focused on issues such as consumer protection, healthcare, and veterans' affairs during his tenure. He previously served as the Attorney General of Connecticut from 1991 to 2011, where he gained recognition for his advocacy on behalf of consumers and his efforts to hold corporations accountable. Blumenthal has been an active voice in the Senate, participating in various committees and addressing key national issues.

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Jan 16, 2018

The VA has an administrative and moral responsibility to respond, and I am disappointed that it has not done so.

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Jan 16, 2018

Part of taking responsibility is to acknowledge and act on his claim

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Jan 16, 2018

I am deeply dissatisfied with the lack of action under existing authority to crack down on the predatory practices of for-profit schools.

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Jan 8, 2018

To say the administration has not yet delivered would be a wild understatement.

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Jan 8, 2018

He should, because it stands in stark contrast to what he did as a member of the Bush administration.

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Jan 8, 2018

Everybody you ask seems to have a different answer for what exactly 'welfare reform' means.

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Jan 8, 2018

They've got no serious plan to undo the damage.

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Jan 8, 2018

The system is broken. Mr. Azar was a part of that system.

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Jan 8, 2018

Like many Senators, I was disappointed to see Taiwan excluded from the WHA in 2017.

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Jan 8, 2018

The sabotage agenda went into effect on day one.

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Jan 8, 2018

I believe continued exclusions will only make it more difficult to provide solutions to global health challenges.

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Jan 8, 2018

The same Donald Trump who said almost exactly a year ago that price-hiking drug companies were getting away with murder has nominated a drug company executive with a documented history of raising prescription drug prices.

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Jan 8, 2018

Mr. Azar will have to explain today whether he is going to continue that policy.

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Jan 8, 2018

He toured like he was in the Grateful Dead.

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Jan 8, 2018

The American people heard a lot of promises 2 years ago about how great their health care would be under a President Trump, and how the era of skyrocketing drug prices was over.

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Jan 8, 2018

The Trump administration has made millions of people's health care worse, and there does not seem to be a serious plan to undo the damage.

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Jan 4, 2018

The calls for him to resign come mainly from the Trump sycophants and henchmen who want the investigation stopped.

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Jan 4, 2018

Inappropriate and hard to believe that the attorney general of the United States would seek dirt on his own FBI director. It so contravenes the ethic of the Department of Justice that it seems unbelievable.

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Jan 4, 2018

Far from protecting the president, he is supposed to protect the people of the United States. He is the people's lawyer. They are his client.

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Jan 4, 2018

This excellent reporting certainly indicates a key element of an obstruction of justice case which is corrupt intent. And what is building here, it may not have reached the threshold of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, is clearly an effort…

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Dec 17, 2017

I think he's made it and it's the right decision to have resigned. Very strongly, it is the right decision to have resigned.

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Dec 17, 2017

The conviction of Michael Flynn and his cooperation is a shattering blow to the Trump presidency.

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Dec 17, 2017

Very rarely. I can say not only as state attorney general but also as a former United States attorney, chief federal prosecutor in Connecticut, that this kind of letter is sent exonerating, it's rare, virtually nonexistent in the case of…

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