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Chris Van Hollen

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Chris Van Hollen is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Maryland since January 3, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Maryland's 8th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2017. Throughout his career, Van Hollen has focused on issues such as economic policy, healthcare, and education reform.

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Nov 17, 2021

She embodies everything we ought to celebrate, the fighting spirit that makes this Nation great.

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Nov 17, 2021

These inflammatory insinuations continue to stoke the unhinged rhetoric that has poisoned our politics.

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Nov 16, 2021

The Biden administration has now a sum of each policy, I believe how you worded it.

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Nov 16, 2021

I agree with your skepticism on the Taliban, but we need to continue to use the tools we have got.

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Nov 16, 2021

I worry that the open-ended war authorizations that just kind of allow the executive to carry out war on autopilot are sort of an abdication of a congressional oversight responsibility.

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Nov 16, 2021

In my view, the only leverage we have left with the Taliban is the financial leverage that we have in place right now.

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Nov 16, 2021

We are going to have a vote about whether we should repeal authorizations and not have a pending war authorization against a country that we now work as a partner with.

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Nov 16, 2021

We have to make sure that that resettlement process works and I am going to do all I can to make sure that it does.

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Nov 16, 2021

That deal was built on a set of lies, chief among them that the Taliban would sever their connection with al-Qaeda.

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Nov 16, 2021

We owe that to the American people. We owe that to our troops.

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Nov 16, 2021

The political and security environment for our withdrawal was a direct consequence of Trump's surrender deal and we should never forget that.

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Nov 16, 2021

That's a war that I voted against.

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Nov 16, 2021

I was skeptical from the very beginning that that strategy would work.

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Nov 16, 2021

I think he inherited an impossible hand.

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Oct 27, 2021

90 percent of Maryland applicants for this public loan were denied. And it is just outrageous

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Oct 27, 2021

I am especially worried now that those protections have expired entirely, as of last month, that we could see a wave of foreclosures.

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Oct 27, 2021

We have got to do a lot more to protect consumers in this area.

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Oct 27, 2021

I want to endorse some of the statements my colleague, Senator Menendez, Senator Tester, and others have made regarding the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

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Oct 26, 2021

This is the key. It is also often the top line of attack when it comes to anti-democratic efforts.

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Oct 26, 2021

We have to support Moldova and make sure it remains a bright spot.

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Oct 26, 2021

Black Sea states as a whole must do more to improve resilience of institutions, that unstable democratic institutions and processes within these states expose the region to the Kremlin's influence operations in the informational cyber…

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Oct 26, 2021

I am encouraged by recent signaling from the NATO Secretary General that NATO will develop an overarching plan for defense of the region.

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Oct 26, 2021

What appeared to be minor territorial aggression from Russia... is part of a larger pattern of Russia's bellicose behavior that must continue to be condemned.

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Oct 26, 2021

We have to help them succeed. We have to help them reform.

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