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On the recordFebruary 5, 2025
I would like to start by thanking Senator Murray for her extraordinary leadership. She has been a stalwart in the Senate for many, many years and now is the ranking member of the Appropriations Committee and knows firsthand the importance of the process by which we make a law in the United States. And that includes that we pass those laws in Congress. We fund them in Congress. It is signed by the President of the United States. And people across this Nation can know, through that process, those are what the laws are. If you don't like those laws, then elect different people who will come up with different versions of the law. But everyone--Democrat or Republican--sticks to the same version, and that is: A law is a law. The President of the United States or his co-President, Elon Musk, do not have the right simply to go back on the laws and say: Oh, we pick that one, that one, and that one to enforce--and that one, no; that one, no; and, maybe, that one, half time. That is not how the process works. Senator Murray has been the leading voice in fighting back against this, and I want to say how much I appreciate all that she has done. I want to talk for just a minute about Project 2025. During the 2024 election, the American people became familiar with this Republican document called Project 2025. The document laid out Republican plans to reshape our country if they gained control. Now, Americans, a little at a time, got a chance to see the plan.…
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Elizabeth Warren
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