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Tammy Duckworth

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Tammy Duckworth is a United States Senator from Illinois, serving since January 20, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented Illinois's 8th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2013 to 2017. Duckworth is a veteran of the Iraq War, where she became the first female double amputee from the conflict, an experience that has shaped her advocacy for veterans and military families. She has been a strong proponent of healthcare reform, women's rights, and disability rights throughout her political career.

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Oct 25, 2023

Romania is providing energy to its neighbors Ukraine and Moldova when necessary.

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Oct 25, 2023

Thirty years ago... we offered the countries a simple choice. Come be a normal country.

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Oct 25, 2023

I was struck by the central role that Romania has played in countering Putin's aggression.

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Oct 25, 2023

We will stand with the Ukrainian people as long as it takes until they beat back Putin.

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Oct 25, 2023

We will stand with the Ukrainian people as long as it takes until they beat back Putin.

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Oct 25, 2023

For America you beat a bully before he gathers steam and that is what we are doing now.

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Oct 25, 2023

I was struck by the central role that Romania has played in countering Putin's aggression.

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Oct 25, 2023

Romania is providing energy to its neighbors Ukraine and Moldova when necessary.

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Oct 24, 2023

Thirty years ago... we offered the countries a simple choice. Come be a normal country.

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Oct 24, 2023

I am running out of time, but perhaps you can respond in a written format, if you could just discuss how the U.S. can build on current efforts to promote the development of SMRs to speed broader use of this technology responsibly.

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Oct 24, 2023

I was struck by the central role that Romania has played in countering Putin's aggression.

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Oct 24, 2023

We will stand with the Ukrainian people as long as it takes until they beat back Putin.

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Oct 24, 2023

For America you beat a bully before he gathers steam and that is what we are doing now.

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Oct 24, 2023

Romania is providing energy to its neighbors Ukraine and Moldova when necessary.

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Oct 19, 2023

on September 11, 2001, even while smoke was still billowing from the wreckage of the Twin Towers, I knew deep within me that that attack on American soil would change not just my Nation's future but my own, and it did. I rushed back to the…

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Sep 26, 2023

I rise today to highlight the importance of the Rehabilitation Act and to recognize the law's significance as we celebrate its 50th birthday today. The Rehabilitation Act prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in…

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Jul 26, 2023

I join my colleagues today in expressing my great disappointment in my colleague from Alabama and his continuing hold on military promotions. He has argued--and I have seen him say this several times--that he is not affecting military…

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Jul 26, 2023

What are the tools that we have at our disposal to persuade them that it is worth following our higher transparency, environmental, and labor standards?

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Jul 26, 2023

What are the tools that we have at our disposal to persuade them that it is worth following our higher transparency, environmental, and labor standards?

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Jul 26, 2023

bottom line: This is unnecessary. There are robust existing coordination mechanisms among the IGs to ensure comprehensive oversight, provisions in the committee-passed NDAA to assist the DOD IG with enhanced hiring authorities, and $27…

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Jul 15, 2023

It is bizarre for Senator Tuberville to say that he's not jeopardizing national security when he injects politics into the defense process.

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Jul 15, 2023

I'm not opposed to court expansion, but I'm not certainly there where I would support it at this point in time.

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Jul 15, 2023

What Vladimir Putin has done is not only has he expanded NATO, he's actually strengthened the resolve of countries like Japan and Korea and Taiwan and other nations.

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Jul 10, 2023

He is wrong and you could just -- not just take my word for it, but take the word of former secretaries of Defense, a bipartisan group have come forward and said that he is wrong. Military officers have come forward and said he is wrong.

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Jul 10, 2023

to have commanders, the commandant -- not have a commandant of the Marine Corps, who can exercise his full duties as commandant is destructive to this nation's national security, and it all is laid at Senator Tuberville's feet.

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