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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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Jun 4, 2019

Well, I don't know he makes up for it if you mean by stealing money from the Department of Defense to build a wall.

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Jun 4, 2019

I don't think he cares. I don't think he cares to honor those who have served. They have done something he was too afraid to do himself, I think he finds those threatening to him, he lashes out to them and minimize their service by saying…

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Jun 4, 2019

Yes, he is a coward. He is a coward when it came time to serve in Vietnam.

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May 14, 2019

We in Congress are the only authority to declare war and so you should share with us information if you're pushing us into the conditions where war may happen.

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May 14, 2019

I think not just administration, but I think Mr. Bolton in particular, right? He himself has said two things, what caused the U.S. to be in conflict, one which is for Iran to ramp up its nuclear production, and then the other is for them…

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May 14, 2019

I would like to see what this intelligence that the administration keeps talking about. They need to share it with members of Congress.

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Jan 22, 2019

Mulvaney has actually said on record in a press interview that there was quid pro quo, right? He said, hey, we do this all the time, get used to it.

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Jan 22, 2019

Well, then allow us to subpoena the additional evidence that the White House is hiding from the American people.

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Jan 22, 2019

If anybody has denigrated America, it's President Trump. It is certainly not Colonel Vindman. He, in fact, has talked about how great this nation is, how grateful he is that his father escaped Soviet Union to come to the United States, how…

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Jan 22, 2019

I watched the House trial, and the way that the House managers have actually presented the evidence in chronological order was new to me.

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Jan 22, 2019

I am just appalled that that is what she has said, that she would actually attack a veteran, a man of honor, a man who in his remarks when he testified under oath was that here in the United States, right matter. And that is why he spoke…

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Nov 28, 2018

I hope we can move swiftly to clarify this important law by passing S. 2968.

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Nov 28, 2018

DOE employees deserve the same whistleblower protections that are provided to employees of DOE contractors and subcontractors.

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Nov 28, 2018

I think that if we are all being honest, we will recognize that, of course, Congress meant to provide DOE employees with enforceable whistleblower protections.

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Nov 14, 2018

Do you think this bill should require that States use a portion of their funding to help recover threatened and endangered species as part of the Act?

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Nov 14, 2018

I believe that additional funding for these efforts, as well as for Federal agencies, will go a long way in Illinois and across America.

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Nov 14, 2018

If he truly wants to support our troops, then he should pay more attention to making sure that we actually have a strategy for North Korea, that he provides these funding to support our veterans, those are going back to school in a GI bill…

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Nov 14, 2018

No. If anything, those 5,000 troops being sent to the Texas border when the caravan 1,000 miles away is headed towards California and they're being sent to the border over Thanksgiving and potentially over Christmas is, if anything, it's…

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Nov 14, 2018

If he truly cared about the troops, he would go visit them in a combat zone. He would go to the cemetery whether it was raining or snowing to honor our heroic dead.

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Nov 14, 2018

Well, I think it's 100 percent in him trying to make up for the fact that he couldn't be bothered to stand in the rain to honor our heroic dead on Veterans Day, that he's had a terrible week, and he is trying to take credit for things that…

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Oct 9, 2018

I think we are, if anything, late to the party.

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Oct 9, 2018

I was really struck by how these actions shined a spotlight on Congress' failure to modernize Federal privacy laws.

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Oct 9, 2018

A clear, simple standard for U.S. companies to know what they are allowed to do with our regular or personal data or sensitive data is a good move.

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Oct 9, 2018

The reality is that the Federal Government has fallen behind the curve in protecting digital security rights.

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Sep 24, 2018

They also have potential to address some of the world's most challenging problems and the United States is poised to be a leader in this development.

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