“I think we can all unequivocally say in 2026, football is not going anywhere.”
“When giant corporations and Wall Street investors buy up all the fire truck manufacturers, it’s a threat to public safety.”
“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
“It is imperative that FEMA helps communities quickly respond to wildfires and increase their resilience to future wildfire disasters”
“They are picking houses the way you pick tomatoes at the grocery store.”
“Protecting and defending innocent life is and remains important to our Legislature, governor, attorney general and citizens.”

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On the recordJanuary 13, 2025
I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray), the Senator from California (Mr. Padilla), and the Senator from California (Mr. Schiff) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 82, nays 10, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 2 Leg.] YEAS--82 Alsobrooks Baldwin Banks Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Blunt Rochester Boozman Britt Budd Cantwell Capito Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Curtis Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fischer Gallego Gillibrand Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell McCormick Moran Moreno Murkowski Murphy Ossoff Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Rosen Rounds Rubio Schmitt Schumer Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shaheen Sheehy Slotkin Sullivan Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Welch Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--10 Booker Hirono Kim Lujan Markey Merkley Sanders Schatz Smith Warren NOT VOTING--6 Fetterman Graham Mullin Murray Padilla Schiff The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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Democratic · Illinois
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