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Raphael Warnock

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Raphael Gamaliel Warnock is an American pastor and politician currently serving as the junior United States senator from Georgia since January 20, 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Warnock is the first African American to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate. He previously served as the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, a position that has deep historical significance in the civil rights movement. Warnock's legislative focus includes issues such as voting rights, healthcare, and economic justice.

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Mar 5, 2021

Help is on the way. We’re about to pass a historic piece of legislation that will cut child poverty in half.

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Mar 5, 2021

contrary to the suggestion from my colleague from Pennsylvania, this provision has everything to do with COVID-19 relief. The thing about this terrible pandemic is that it has both illuminated and exacerbated longstanding disparities…

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Mar 5, 2021

I think it’s a contradiction to say that people ought to work and not make work pay.

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Mar 1, 2021

It is great to be here with you, and let me say how excited I am to be named chairman of this Committee's Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection.

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Mar 1, 2021

Our military men and women in uniform are obviously putting it all on the line for us, to protect us, and the least we can do is protect them from abusive practices in our financial systems.

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Mar 1, 2021

I look forward to working with you on this issue. It is my view that our young people should not have to mortgage their future just to have a shot at a future, and it pressing not only for them but for our entire economy.

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Feb 22, 2021

I look forward to working with you as we work on a recovery that embraces our whole country.

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Feb 22, 2021

I especially look forward to working with you and Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic to help Georgians over the next 2 years.

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Feb 22, 2021

the bottom line is that poverty, systemic inequality, wealth inequality are risks to the entire economy

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Feb 22, 2021

So we want the economy to fully recover, but we have got to get the virus under control, and those things work together.

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Feb 12, 2021

I send a question to the desk. The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Send it to the desk. The Senator from Georgia, Senator Warnock, has a question for the House Managers. The clerk will read the question. The legislative clerk read as follows: Is it…

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Jan 26, 2021

I don`t know about you, but I`m so proud of the State of Georgia, let America hear you roar.

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Jan 18, 2021

There is a sense in which the world is in flux. When that happens, there are always those demagogues who are trying to scapegoat other people, stirring up the worst types of stereotypes and creating all kinds of division, age old racial…

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Jan 4, 2021

He's on his way out the door whether he recognizes it or not.

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Jan 4, 2021

Georgians need a senator not a sycophant. They need someone who understands that their job is to represent the people.

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Jan 4, 2021

The people of Georgia deserve relief. And that's what I intend to fight.

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Jan 4, 2021

Send her home. We need a senator. Fire her, and hire something who will be thinking about the people of Georgia.

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Jan 4, 2021

She had barely unpacked. Had been there three weeks. When she heard about the coronavirus pandemic, rather than focusing on the folk who were sheltering in, she was focused on sheltering her own investments.

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Dec 31, 2020

When you received the private briefing regarding the coronavirus pandemic, you dumped millions of dollars of stock in order to protect your own investments. And then weeks later, when there came an opportunity to give ordinary Georgians an…

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Dec 29, 2020

Kelly Loeffler made clear her priorities when she sold $3 million of her own stock while downplaying the pandemic, called unemployment relief counterproductive and then waited nearly nine months to take any action on additional relief…

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Dec 24, 2020

When you received the private briefing regarding the coronavirus pandemic, you dumped millions of dollars of stock in order to protect your own investments. And then weeks later, when there came an opportunity to give ordinary Georgians an…

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Dec 13, 2020

There's a lot of stuff to do this time of year -- get the tree, done. Hang the lights. Not yet. Wrap presents. Check. But this year there's one extra thing to do. Vote. That's right. Early voting starts December 14th so make voting part of…

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Dec 10, 2020

It's suspicious when politicians come in here and talk about these kinds of values when in fact they step out of the church doors and they don't do the same thing.

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Dec 9, 2020

When you received the private briefing regarding the coronavirus pandemic, you dumped millions of dollars of stock in order to protect your own investments. And then weeks later, when there came an opportunity to give ordinary Georgians an…

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