“I think we can all unequivocally say in 2026, football is not going anywhere.”
“When giant corporations and Wall Street investors buy up all the fire truck manufacturers, it’s a threat to public safety.”
“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”
“They are picking houses the way you pick tomatoes at the grocery store.”
“Protecting and defending innocent life is and remains important to our Legislature, governor, attorney general and citizens.”

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On the recordOctober 25, 2023
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott).- The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 45, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 268 Leg.] YEAS--53 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy King Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Paul Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NAYS--45 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Kaine Kelly Klobuchar Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Peters Reed Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--2 Padilla Scott (SC) The amendment (No. 1354) was agreed to. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Murphy). The Senator from Illinois. Unanimous Consent Request--Executive Calendar
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