“This war has killed 18 US service members, cost billions of taxpayer dollars, and displaced millions of civilians.”
“I’m pleased that my efforts will provide relief to the millions of Americans who’ve been squeezed by the surge in gas prices.”
“If the President wants to fix the problems at the pump, he should end this illegal war with Iran”
“The point is that tariffs contributed to inflation.”
“These disparities are not just statistics; they represent lives lost, families impacted, and communities left behind.”
“Prices are higher than when the president came into office, and tariffs made it worse.”

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On the recordDecember 7, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Cotton) and the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 60, nays 34, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 382 Ex.] YEAS--60 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Durbin Feinstein Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Sasse Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--34 Barrasso Blackburn Blunt Boozman Braun Capito Cassidy Cramer Crapo Daines Ernst Fischer Hagerty Hawley Hoeven Hyde-Smith Inhofe Johnson Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall McConnell Moran Paul Risch Rubio Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Sullivan Thune Tuberville Young NOT VOTING--6 Cotton Cruz Duckworth Hickenlooper Schatz Warner The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. On this vote, the yeas are 60, the nays are 34. The motion is agreed to.
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Republican · South Dakota
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