“I think we can all unequivocally say in 2026, football is not going anywhere.”
“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
“It is imperative that FEMA helps communities quickly respond to wildfires and increase their resilience to future wildfire disasters”
“When giant corporations and Wall Street investors buy up all the fire truck manufacturers, it’s a threat to public safety.”
“They are picking houses the way you pick tomatoes at the grocery store.”
“I’m thrilled to celebrate the Department of Commerce’s $31 million investment in the INEC Tech Hub.”

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On the recordMay 2, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), and the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. Wicker). The result was announced--yeas 81, nays 10, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 158 Leg.] YEAS--81 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Boozman Braun Britt Brown Budd Butler Cantwell Capito Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Merkley Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Paul Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Schatz Schmitt Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Warnock Welch Whitehouse Wyden Young NAYS--10 Cardin Cassidy Hawley Kaine Kennedy Lee Van Hollen Vance Warner Warren NOT VOTING--9 Booker Cramer Johnson Kelly Menendez Sanders Scott (SC) Sullivan Wicker The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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