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Brian Schatz

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Brian Emanuel Schatz is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Hawaii since December 26, 2012. A member of the Democratic Party, Schatz has focused on issues such as climate change, healthcare, and education during his time in office. He succeeded Daniel Akaka and has been an advocate for renewable energy and environmental protection, reflecting Hawaii's unique ecological challenges and opportunities.

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May 13, 2025

It’s like this was designed in a lab to piss off the maximum number of people.

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May 12, 2025

I cannot believe I have to say this, but a President should not take a $400 million gift from a foreign country. It doesn't matter which President or what party. It doesn't matter which foreign country. It doesn't matter if there is or is…

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May 6, 2025

this week is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Awareness Week, and it is a sobering reminder of both the breathtaking scale of this tragedy that has plagued Native communities for generations and how far we still have to go to bring…

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May 1, 2025

yesterday, the Health Secretary, RFK, Jr., announced that the Department would subject all new vaccines--including vaccines for children and vaccines for well-researched diseases like measles and polio--to placebo testing. So what does…

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Apr 29, 2025

we are 100 days into Donald Trump's term, and it is time that we ask the most important question, the most obvious question, but it is a question, actually, that has not been asked enough--not ``How is he doing?'' not even ``What is he…

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Apr 28, 2025

everyone enters public service hoping that they can make a difference, but few have the ability or the fortune to do as much good as Senator Dick Durbin has over his long and storied career. Since stepping into these Halls of Congress more…

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Apr 21, 2025

On its face, this new reorganization plan raises grave concerns that the United States will no longer have either the capacity or capability to exert U.S. global leadership, achieve critical national security objectives, stand up to our…

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Apr 4, 2025

Donald Trump is ruining the economy on purpose. He is ruining the economy on purpose. I am not sure if there has ever been an American President, let alone a Chief Executive of any country, that has ruined the economy on purpose. The stock…

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Apr 4, 2025

leave Social Security alone. Leave Social Security alone. Donald Trump wants to gut the most successful antipoverty program in American history. Over the past 3 months, his administration has made sweeping cuts to Social Security in ways…

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Mar 23, 2025

They’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. They realize that cutting Medicaid is going to be politically fatal, but they are also trying to make these numbers work.

nbcnews.com
Mar 12, 2025

I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum with respect to the Miran nomination be waived. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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Mar 12, 2025

we are 50 days into Donald Trump's second term, and the American economy is already in free fall; prices are soaring, stocks are plummeting, and people are panicking about a recession. None of this was inevitable. All of this is Trump's…

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Mar 12, 2025

I ask unanimous consent that the previously scheduled rollcall vote begin immediately. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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Mar 3, 2025

There actually is no need for this brinkmanship.

cnn.com
Mar 3, 2025

We are in a position to enact an appropriations bill and we need a little more time so why wouldn’t we buy ourselves a little more time.

cnn.com
Mar 3, 2025

the price of everything is going up. Outbreaks of measles and bird flu are killing people. Airplanes are almost crashing or actually crashing and falling out of the sky. Tens of thousands of Federal workers, including veterans, are being…

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Feb 19, 2025

as I hear the senior Senator from Iowa, it is like I am living in another world. I am not alleging that Mr. Patel has an enemies list. He is the one that has said that. I am not alleging that he would use law enforcement against Donald…

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Feb 16, 2025

The multiple ways in which the Trump administration's incompetence and arson is about to hit Americans.

commondreams.org
Feb 16, 2025

The mass firings underscored the multiple ways in which the Trump administration's incompetence and arson is about to hit Americans.

commondreams.org
Feb 12, 2025

it is not often that the stakes of a vote to confirm a Cabinet nominee are this high, but tomorrow, when we vote on the nomination of RFK, Jr., to be the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, the stakes will be life and…

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Feb 11, 2025

There's an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda. There's an outbreak of Marburg's disease in Tanzania. Thousands of American diplomats leaving their posts abruptly. We just look so weak and a bit nuts. Foreign policy is hard, but this is just a…

newsweek.com
Feb 10, 2025

There's an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda. There's an outbreak of Marburg's disease in Tanzania. Thousands of American diplomats leaving their posts abruptly. We just look so weak and a bit nuts. Foreign policy is hard, but this is just a…

newsweek.com
Feb 6, 2025

I'm not going to let some pundit dictate whether or not I exercise my obligations as a member of the Article One branch.

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Feb 5, 2025

Don't Google it. Google doesn't work anymore. But anyway, this is the end of this as a useful way to understand something. It is now just an epithet that you hurl when you are not sure what else to say, right? And so, look, back to Russell…

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