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Sean Casten

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Sean Thomas Casten is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 6th congressional district since January 3, 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, Casten has focused on issues such as climate change, renewable energy, and public safety during his time in office. He has been an advocate for policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions and promoting sustainable practices. Casten's background in business and science informs his legislative priorities, particularly in areas related to energy and environmental policy.

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May 6, 2025

You should be asking me hard questions about that, right? It’s insane.

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Apr 30, 2025

A few weeks ago, I got a call from a constituent whose 46-year-old son had just been diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer back in December, and the whole family is now wondering whether he is going to live long enough to see his kids…

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Apr 30, 2025

I missed Roll Call vote nos. 111 and 112 because I attended my daughter's senior awards night ceremony. Had I been present, I would have voted Nay on Roll Call No. 111, H.J. Res. 87, and Nay on Roll Call No. 112, H.J. Res. 89. personal…

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Apr 27, 2025

I think we’re moving from incoherent to directed anger.

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Mar 20, 2025

They should try actually fighting for once. They should try to actually be the opposition party.

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Feb 25, 2025

I want you to imagine that a friend came over to you and said: Donald Trump taught me how to save 50 percent on my shoe purchases. All you have to do is cut off one leg. It is just math, as the gentleman from Arizona says. So let's get out…

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Feb 22, 2025

The actions that Musk and his IT goons have taken, they're illegal.

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Feb 15, 2025

In three weeks, the public mood has gone from apathy to fear to anger. And I think the next thing in that cycle is action.

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Feb 15, 2025

It only took 50 days for Hitler to destroy democracy in Germany.

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Feb 15, 2025

Part of our job right now as Democrats in Washington inside of this is to be Churchillian, very clear-eyed about what the stakes of this moment are.

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Feb 13, 2025

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, last week, my colleague, Haley Stevens, and I introduced the Taxpayer Data Protection Act. I am going to get to that in a minute. I woke up this morning to find that apparently this bill had…

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Feb 11, 2025

The first thing we do is make sure that unless you have a security clearance, a top-secret security clearance, you cannot access those records. The second thing it does is, if you have not been a Federal Government employee for at least a…

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Feb 11, 2025

May I inquire how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Illinois has 18 minutes remaining.

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Feb 11, 2025

Confirming her as DNI serves only to tell Trump that Senate Rs would rather lick his boots than do a single damn thing to protect our national security.

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Feb 11, 2025

I thank the gentlewoman from Wisconsin (Ms. Moore) for her remarks. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Turner).

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Feb 11, 2025

Haley Stevens and I introduced the Taxpayer Data Protection Act last week. This is a very simple but, tragically, an urgently necessary bill to address the hack of the U.S. Treasury payment system by Elon Musk and his band of IT goons last…

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Feb 11, 2025

Some people have said that this bill is unnecessary because what is being done by the White House is simply going after waste, fraud, and abuse. I want to explain why that is actually the opposite of what they are doing. First, we have to…

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Feb 11, 2025

They are worse than useless. And they are putting every American at risk.

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Feb 11, 2025

Joseph Stalin said that one death is a tragedy and a million deaths is a statistic. When we talk about constitutional crises and hacks into $5 trillion systems, that risks sounding like a statistic. I want to share just a couple of stories…

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Feb 10, 2025

It’s hard to talk about memecoins with the language that the industry uses to talk about them.

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Feb 10, 2025

The president of the United States issued something that has no innate value.

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Feb 7, 2025

That motion is a chance for all of my colleagues to choose leadership, to choose patriotism, to choose to honor the oath that we all took to the Constitution, to be remembered and honored by future generations, and, in the words of William…

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Feb 7, 2025

We are in a constitutional crisis. The President of the United States is trying to delete the 14th Amendment, ignoring Congress' constitutional power of the purse to illegally block Federal spending, exposing the identities of our…

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Feb 7, 2025

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of passage. The vote…

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Feb 7, 2025

I have a motion to recommit at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Casten of Illinois moves to recommit the bill H.R. 26 to the Committee on Natural Resources. The…

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