There are parents in every county who have lost their brothers or sisters or spouses or children to the contamination from fentanyl.
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Merkley highlights the tragic personal losses due to fentanyl contamination.
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I’ve come to the Senate floor tonight to ring the alarm bells. We’re in the most perilous moment, the biggest threat to our republic since the Civil War. President Trump is shredding our Constitution.
Democrats continue to show up and fight every provision of this Big, Beautiful Betrayal of a bill, because this bill is an attack on workers and families everywhere.
It’s not just over this bill. It’s also over preventing America from losing its architecture of its Constitution, separation of powers so that we can have government by and for the people, not government by and for the powerful.
Our responsibility is to, yes, express our views. Yes, protest. But best done at a distance from these federal troops … because their goal is to create an engagement, an engagement that will lead to conflict.





