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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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Sep 3, 2018

I actually got to see it before it was out because Senator Harris gave me a copy, and my kids and I watched it before it was public.

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Sep 3, 2018

I think precedent is critically important, but I do not think the American people--it is not something that we debate in front of them much.

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Sep 3, 2018

One of the reasons that the executive branch seems so powerful right now is, again, because of how weak the legislature is.

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Sep 3, 2018

How many times we see our Founders writing about the norms of our civics.

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Sep 3, 2018

Executive immunity has no place in a democracy.

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Sep 3, 2018

Presidents should not have the power to do whatever they want.

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Sep 3, 2018

Training for a marathon, completing two marathons like this, is a huge accomplishment.

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Sep 3, 2018

I think you can see a lot of that by the type of life you have lived outside of the courtroom.

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Sep 3, 2018

A lot of the other records that have been discussed are mainly duplicative, administrative documents.

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Sep 3, 2018

The comments from the White House yesterday about trying to politicize the Department of Justice, they were wrong, and they should be condemned.

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Sep 2, 2018

These two men have been charged with crimes because of evidence, not because who have the president was when the investigations began.

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Sep 2, 2018

The United States is not some banana republic with a two-tiered system of justice, one for the majority party and one for the minority party.

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Aug 23, 2018

I find it really difficult to envision any circumstance where I would vote to confirm a successor to Jeff Sessions if he is fired because he's executing his job rather than choosing to act as a partisan hack.

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Jun 19, 2018

We really do need to invest in protected financial investigative teams that can go after sophisticated money launderers.

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Jun 19, 2018

We do not know a lot about the questions that you have asked, and I think we need to create a market to get data.

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Jun 19, 2018

Absolutely we should be ending anonymous companies created in the United States. It is way overdue.

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Jun 19, 2018

We have a series of votes coming up, so we are going to have to wind up in about 10 minutes.

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Jun 19, 2018

It seems to me that those feedback loops matter for three reasons.

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Jun 19, 2018

Thank you. Do the other two of you want to add anything on specific techniques that you see?

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Jun 19, 2018

You said they are going to have a CFO.

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Jun 19, 2018

So your CFO point is almost exactly where I was going to go.

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Jun 19, 2018

We can and must do better than this.

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Jun 17, 2018

The administration's decision to separate families is a new discretionary choice. Anyone saying that their hands are tied or that the only conceivable way to fix the problem of catch and release is to rip families apart is flat wrong.

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May 16, 2018

Honestly, I would put my bet on preparing people for the 16 million middle-skilled jobs that this country has to fill between now and 2025 that require solid secondary education and post-secondary licenses and certifications and…

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May 16, 2018

If you were 'King for a day,' and you could put a bunch of chips on one of three bets, K-12, educational preparedness, workforce training and redevelopment for people post age 18 or sort of mobility incentives to try to think about the…

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