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Ben Sasse

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Ben Sasse is an American politician and academic who has served as the junior United States Senator from Nebraska since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Sasse has focused on various issues during his tenure, including healthcare, education, and employment for individuals with disabilities. He has been an advocate for competitive integrated employment, emphasizing the importance of fair wages for people with disabilities. Sasse has also been involved in bipartisan efforts to address these challenges in the workforce.

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Dec 15, 2020

I have a request for one committee to meet during today's session of the Senate. It has the approval of the Majority and Minority leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following committee…

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Oct 19, 2020

I'm worried that if President Trump loses as looks likely that he's going to take the Senate down with him. I'm now looking at the plus possibility of a Republican bloodbath in the Senate.

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Oct 16, 2020

The United States now regularly sells out our allies under his leadership, the way he treats women and spends like a drunken sailor. He mocks evangelicals behind closed doors. His family is treated the presidency like a business…

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Oct 15, 2020

The way he kisses dictators' butts. The United States now regularly sells out our allies under his leadership, the way he treats women. He mocks evangelicals behind closed doors. He's flirted with white supremacists. I think we're staring…

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Oct 15, 2020

All of these things about Trump that we all know to be true, that Republicans all know to be true, about his family using the presidency as a business, about him playing footsie with white supremacists, about his love affair with dictators.

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Oct 15, 2020

He kisses dictators butts. The United States now regularly sells out our allies under his leadership. The way he treats women and spends like a drunken sailor. He mocks evangelicals behind closed doors. His family has treated the…

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Oct 15, 2020

The way he kisses dictators butts, the United States now regularly sells out our allies under his leadership. The way he treats women and spends like a drunken sailor the ways I criticize President Obama for that kind of spending. I've…

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Oct 14, 2020

QAnon is nuts and real leaders call conspiracy theories conspiracy theories.

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Oct 14, 2020

The United States now regularly sells out our allies under his leadership, the way he treats women and spends like a drunken sailor. He mocks evangelicals behind closed doors, as his family has treated the presidency like a business…

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Aug 9, 2020

There are many people who have said for years, hey, these athletes are uncompensated, but in a true student athlete model, if sanity prevailed, the scholarship could be worth well more than half a million dollars over the course of four…

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Aug 9, 2020

No President whether named Obama or Trump or Biden or AOC has unilateral power to rewrite immigration law or to cut taxes or to raise taxes. This is because America doesn't have kings.

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Aug 9, 2020

Unconstitutional slop is what Republican Senator Ben Sasse called the executive actions.

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Jul 2, 2020

I would also like to praise the chairman for the work he does. Flying around the world can be hard on bodies. When you have all the work you have to do at home and you go around the world and you encourage freedom-loving people--I know…

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Jun 24, 2020

I thank the Senator for his question. I told the Senator from Maryland I would get out of his way, and I thank him for the time. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Loeffler). The Senator from Maryland is recognized. Justice in Policing Act

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Jun 24, 2020

There are so many different procedures in the Judiciary Committee. You defined yourself as a rookie who has been here for 7 years. I am a rookie to your rookie, and I am new on Judiciary. So there are a lot of ways. The way you are…

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Jun 22, 2020

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:31 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, June 23, 2020, at 10 a.m…

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Feb 4, 2019

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:37 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, February 5, 2019, at 10 a.m.

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Sep 25, 2018

Our future will only be brighter if we follow the path of smart economic policy.

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Sep 3, 2018

I think Dr. Ford is a victim, and I think she has been through hell, and I am very sympathetic to her.

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Sep 3, 2018

If we had to unpack American political philosophy in one word, I think it is anti-majoritarianism.

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Sep 3, 2018

The rights... belong to people because of the nature of humans, and humans are created in the image of God and they have dignity.

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Sep 3, 2018

We need a First Amendment because it is required for individual liberty, and we need it structurally because society, and particularly a republic, needs that discourse.

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Sep 3, 2018

One of the most frightening numbers is that Americans under 35, 41 percent of them tell pollsters they think the First Amendment is dangerous.

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Sep 3, 2018

I think what is happening on campuses right now is really dangerous.

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Sep 3, 2018

I thought that was a great line of questioning.

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