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Angus King

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Angus Stanley King is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Maine since January 3, 2013. A member of the Independent party, King previously held the position of Governor of Maine from January 4, 1995, to January 8, 2003. Throughout his political career, he has focused on issues such as education, healthcare, and renewable energy, often advocating for bipartisan solutions to complex problems. King is known for his moderate stance and willingness to work across party lines.

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Jul 28, 2025

I cannot defend the indefensible... I am through supporting the actions of the current Israeli government.

commondreams.org
Jul 2, 2025

disgusting..I have never seen a bill this irresponsible, regressive and downright cruel.

commondreams.org
Jun 30, 2025

first, I want to respond. We can solve this problem and solve the problem of people in trailer parks by limiting the tax cuts to people making $400,000 a year and less. That would cut the cost of this bill by 60 percent. It would also…

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Jun 30, 2025

If it was important enough to tweet it, it would seem to me it was important enough to notify this committee.

theintercept.com
May 4, 2025

What’s going on is the destruction of the agency from the inside out, and it’s accelerating.

truthout.org
Apr 29, 2025

almost 75 years ago, the junior Senator from Maine rose in this Chamber to deliver a speech from her heart about a crisis then facing our country, a crisis not arising from a foreign adversary but from within, a crisis that threatened the…

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Apr 28, 2025

That’s easy to say. States can’t print money the way they can around here. So it would be very difficult for the state to make up that difference.

nbcnews.com
Apr 8, 2025

I think it’s a problem that we are losing the middle.

cnn.com
Apr 4, 2025

Nobody is talking about raising the rates. The only question before us on this amendment is, Should the rates be cut for people making more than $1 billion a year? I urge a ``yes'' vote and will accept a voice vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER…

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Apr 4, 2025

I call up my amendment No. 1773 and ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Maine [Mr. King] proposes an amendment numbered 1773…

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Apr 4, 2025

do I have any time left? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator has 10 seconds remaining.

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Apr 4, 2025

I think I would title this amendment the ``Are There No Limits?'' amendment. My amendment is that there should be no tax cuts for anyone earning-- an individual earning--more than $1 billion a year. There are 170 people who fit into that…

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Mar 31, 2025

I want to ask you questions about veterans in this country, but before I do, you talk a lot about courage.

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Mar 31, 2025

And how the world has been changed by people of courage, and I look down at my tie that I have on today, which has the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and we think of that as a sacred document, an important document, in our…

govinfo.gov
Mar 24, 2025

So the attack sequencing and timing and weapons and targets you don’t consider to have been classified?

motherjones.com
Mar 24, 2025

This wasn’t just a casual mistake. This wasn’t a bunch of teenagers deciding what they were going to do on the weekend.

cnn.com
Mar 11, 2025

Every single one of these reports that we have had has mentioned global climate change as a significant national security threat except this one.

motherjones.com
Mar 10, 2025

That's one of the things we have to consider. We're dealing with people, many of whom, I suspect, think a shutdown would be a good thing.

nbcnews.com
Mar 10, 2025

"That's one of the things we have to consider. We're dealing with people, many of whom, I suspect, think a shutdown would be a good thing," King said, "and they could prolong it and use it to expand the president's power even beyond what…

nbcnews.com
Mar 5, 2025

The reckless cuts being made at the VA are dangerous to our men and women who served.

newsweek.com
Mar 2, 2025

I cannot think of a rational argument for pulling our support from Ukraine.

cbsnews.com
Mar 2, 2025

If we persist in walking away from Ukraine, it will be the greatest geopolitical mistake that this country's made since World War II.

cbsnews.com
Feb 25, 2025

The implication of that is that Elon Musk decides what we are going to fund and what we aren't. And that's really what worries me about what's going on.

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Feb 25, 2025

The President is to see that the laws are faithfully executed.

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