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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.
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 6:57 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, December 16, 2020, at 10…
I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The bill (H.R. 4356) was…
I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Veterans' Affairs be discharged from further consideration of H.R. 4356 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title…
I further ask that the committee-reported substitute amendment be agreed to; that the bill, as amended, be read a third time and passed; and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening…
I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read three times and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The bill (H.R. 8354)…
I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The…
I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 801, submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The senior assistant…
I ask unanimous consent that the Feinstein substitute amendment at the desk be considered and agreed to and that the bill, as amended, be considered read a third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The…
Senators have worked through the weekend and the clock is obviously winding down later today. Tonight after final confirmation vote, Judge Amy Coney Barrett is going to become Justice Amy Coney Barrett. For those of us who have been…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
QAnon is nuts and real leaders call conspiracy theories conspiracy theories.
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…
before Chairman Roberts leaves, I just wanted to come down and lend my voice to him and Senators Boozman, Thune, and Hoeven, and to Chairman Roberts and his staff for his work, and the Presiding Officer. Thank you for spelling me in the…
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…
Unconstitutional slop is what Republican Senator Ben Sasse called the executive actions.
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.
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…
I rise today with a heaviness in my heart for what we have seen happening in the last 36 hours in Hong Kong. Freedom-loving people in Hong Kong for the last 23 years have known basic, fundamental human and natural rights, and we see the…
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
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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