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Donna Edwards

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Donna Edwards is a Democratic politician from Maryland who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2008 to 2017. She represented Maryland's 4th congressional district, where she focused on issues such as women's rights, healthcare, and economic justice. Edwards was the first African American woman to represent Maryland in Congress, and her tenure was marked by her advocacy for progressive policies and her commitment to her constituents. After leaving Congress, she has remained active in public life and has been involved in various initiatives and organizations.

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Feb 10, 2022

Well, it really does matter, because there’s a captive audience at FOX News that is taking in all of the lies, and they’re acting on it.

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Jan 13, 2022

I mean, really pretty simple things. And they couldn`t get it done. And I think it`s going to hurt them morally because it is the moral thing to do.

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Jan 13, 2022

It does seem that these two senators are determined to stand in the way of the changes to the filibuster that would be required to move voting rights through. I think it`s actually rather shameful, and I think it`s going to harm Democrats…

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Jan 3, 2022

It`s a moral imperative, first of all, to ensure voting rights for all Americans. But it`s also a political imperative.

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Jan 3, 2022

Well, I think the numbers prove that in a Washington Post, University of Maryland poll that was released just a couple of weeks ago showed that, in fact, fully a third of Americans believe that violence is a, you know, response that is…

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Dec 29, 2021

I think Republicans are clearly going to use this 'education and parental involvement and what's taught in schools and what's in libraries' as a mechanism to draw their base voters out for this election.

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Dec 29, 2021

we have to have an argument that realizes that there is a healthy balance of parents being involved in schools, but also that professionals are making determinations about what is or is not taught in the schools.

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Dec 29, 2021

no doubt Republicans are actually really good at constructing a narrative that really draws people in, and this is one of those.

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Dec 23, 2021

I look at the former President Trump as he`s now encouraging people to get vaccines and I wonder what would have made a difference?

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Dec 23, 2021

we are in such a different place. Today, over 200 million Americans have gotten a vaccine.

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Nov 19, 2021

I think it was quite a monumental task to get it through the House and negotiate it. And I also think there are a number of provisions that are in the House version that have already been kind of pre negotiated with the Senate.

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Nov 19, 2021

It was necessary. And if there’s any hope that Congress is going to get back to a point of more decorum of, you know, collegiality among, among members, trust among members, then the House had to take this action to censure Gosar.

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Sep 28, 2021

I`m concerned about any senator, any Democratic senator who would put on the line to possibly tank the President`s agenda because that effectively takes Democrats out of the running for the majority in the House and in the Senate.

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Sep 27, 2021

just as Republicans have fallen in line with the big lie about the 2020 election, undermining confidence in our democracy, and its constitutional norms, they are now prepared to set fire to the entire house by tanking our economy.

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Sep 19, 2021

I think Congress has an obligation to fix that.

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Sep 19, 2021

I am still frightened for the fragility of our democracy, because the reason that it held -- and we found this out -- was because of people’s goodwill.

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Sep 19, 2021

I wouldn’t want to put the future of this country in Mike Pence’s hands.

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Aug 26, 2021

Well, I think the tone that the President struck is the right one, we should be honoring, especially today, the service members who lost their lives, and of course, the Afghan and other civilians who were taken in this attack.

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Aug 26, 2021

the President needs to -- he and the military, of course need to continue on as quick pace as I can to get Americans out our allies, our partners, our Afghan friends, NGO leaders.

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Aug 26, 2021

And I think that the President today, as he has been, was very resolute about the decision to leave.

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Aug 24, 2021

this proposal that before the Congress, both the reconciliation and the infrastructure package are the President's agenda.

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Aug 19, 2021

Well, I mean, I do think that for -- we’ve known for more than a decade that it’s past -- it was past time to get out of Afghanistan, and the question was just always going to be how and I agree with the President that this was never going…

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Jul 29, 2021

I think that is going to pay off for Democrats at the polls.

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May 27, 2021

If you don’t think like that, and you think you have all the time in the world, we’re done.

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