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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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May 15, 2017

More than partisanship, I think they're sensing the moral ground shifting, as well as seismically, the political dynamic changing.

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May 15, 2017

What we're seeing, Anderson, is an obstruction of justice case unfolding in real time.

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May 11, 2017

there is a saying, an old adage, that history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. Over the past week, the dramatic firing of James Comey has recalled past events--history that involved one of the major scandals in our Nation's past--the…

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May 9, 2017

This may well produce another United States versus Nixon and may produce impeachment proceedings.

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May 9, 2017

Here we have a massive attack on our Democratic institutions by the Russians and the possibility, I don't want to overstate it, that Trump associates were colluding or involved in it.

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May 9, 2017

The simple answer is no. No Congressional Committee right now has ample resources to conduct this broad wide ranging investigation.

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May 9, 2017

What is behind it? And that's what we need to know in the senate of the United States and that's why I've called for a special prosecutor to make sure that this investigation is above politics, no one is above the law.

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May 9, 2017

It is a looming constitutional crisis because it involves a potential confrontation as did Watergate between the president and other branches of government.

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May 9, 2017

It may well produce another United States versus Nixon on a subpoena that went to the United States Supreme Court. It may well produce impeachment proceedings, although we're very far from that possibility.

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May 9, 2017

The Rosenstein letter really is a ludicrous pretense for this action.

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May 9, 2017

Just to say this issue is not about me. It is about the integrity of our justice system and this kind of distraction doing certainly won't silence me and my call for a special independent prosecutor.

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May 8, 2017

these are immense resources for our nation, and they're underutilized, in my view.

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May 8, 2017

Connecticut has three significant ports--New London, New Haven, and Bridgeport--and I have been committed to improving them.

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May 8, 2017

I have been approached by some of the midshipmen and their families to ask about the consequences to their careers from this issue.

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May 8, 2017

Thanks to you and Senator Booker for having this hearing.

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May 8, 2017

And they are likely to be better if they are the result of consortiums, that is, coming together rather than singly or solely.

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May 7, 2017

You said, Ms. Yates that we're not going to prosecute our way out of the Russian continued attack on this country. But putting Americans in prison, if they cooperate, collude, aid and abet, or otherwise assist in that illegality, might…

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May 7, 2017

If there is another takeaway here, it's Jim Clapper's reference to the power and seriousness of the threat to our democracy, a foundational threat resulting Russian hacks, the cyber attack, really an act of cyber war.

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May 7, 2017

A special prosecutor is the only way to have an independent, impartial objective prosecutor to hold people accountable.

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May 7, 2017

Michael Flynn might still be there but for 'The Washington Post' report that in effect shamed them into getting rid of him.

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May 7, 2017

The headline from today is that Trump Administration waited for two and a half weeks before it took action against Flynn to fire him.

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May 4, 2017

The President of the United States could be a target of your ongoing investigation into the Trump campaign's involvement with Russian interference in our election.

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May 3, 2017

NCL along with 10 other national consumer and passenger organizations supported and do support Senator Markey's and Senator Blumenthal's Fair Fees Act.

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