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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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Mar 21, 2019

As much as the President may be exalting in the lack of indictments, there are other potential facts and evidence of wrongdoing that may not be chargeable criminally.

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Mar 21, 2019

And if the President is serious, and he's in favor of transparency, he ought to back my bill that I've introduced with Senator Grassley to require that the report and all the facts and findings be made public.

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Mar 21, 2019

But my hope is that it will be expedited and that any Congressional subpoena, which there should be, if necessary, will be quickly resolved.

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Mar 21, 2019

Far from overreaching, Anderson, Congress has an obligation to do oversight.

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Mar 18, 2019

The report hopefully will be long enough to contain the incriminating information that he has gathered about Donald Trump.

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Mar 18, 2019

We're talking here about an effort to hide criminality, obstruct justice in the name of executive privilege.

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Mar 18, 2019

I think that the claim of the White House to review this report should not be upheld. The Department of Justice has a claim to review the report, the White House does not.

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Mar 18, 2019

There is a credible case of obstruction of justice right now, a powerfully credible case against Donald Trump.

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Mar 12, 2019

there are many reasons to care about our Federal judiciary. It touches all of us in our everyday lives even though we often fail to appreciate its enormous impact. No court of appeals in the United States is more important than the DC…

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Mar 12, 2019

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Nomination of Neomi J. Rao

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Mar 12, 2019

What it says to me is that the president was attempting to influence potentially that investigation in New York where he was an unindicted co-conspirator and, in fact, he was called individual number one but clearly he was that person in a…

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Mar 12, 2019

The transcript should be released, just like I've insisted that the entire Mueller report should be released.

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Mar 12, 2019

If the president called the acting attorney general of the United States about an ongoing investigation of him in the Southern District of New York, where he was named as an unindicted co-conspirator, any conversation would be wildly…

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Mar 12, 2019

Clearly, the president's intent in calling Whitaker was to influence the outcome.

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Mar 7, 2019

The president's comments are plainly ludicrous. They are deeply wrong and regrettable. And what he's doing is essentially trying to again divide us, seeking to distract from his own problems, resorting to demagoguery about a resolution…

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Mar 7, 2019

the president is trying to politicize and weaponize this issue on a very partisan basis.

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Mar 6, 2019

does the Senator believe climate change is real, and will he stand with the scientific community, which believes unanimously or almost completely unanimously that climate change is real and that human activity caused it?

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Feb 28, 2019

Most people lie because they want to conceal something, because they feel they have something to hide.

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Feb 28, 2019

Legally he can do it now, which raises the question, by the way, whether Congress should impose more restraints.

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Feb 28, 2019

What Donald Trump did was put those secrets and those individuals in the gravest of jeopardy by overruling the intelligence community about who should have access to those secrets.

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Feb 26, 2019

we are in the midst of a stealth campaign. Normally, we think about ``stealth'' as associated with bombers or submarines, weapons platforms designed to go, in effect, under the radar, to avoid detection, to escape public notice or the…

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Feb 13, 2019

in just a matter of hours, we are expected to vote on the nomination of William Barr to be Attorney General of the United States. This office is one of paramount importance to the people of this country, and as a former U.S. attorney, the…

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