“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 26, 2023
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott). The result was announced--yeas 11, nays 86, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 270 Leg.] YEAS--11 Braun Kaine Kennedy Lee Markey Marshall Merkley Paul Sanders Vance Welch NAYS--86 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blackburn Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Brown Budd Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kelly Klobuchar Lankford Lujan Lummis Manchin McConnell Menendez Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Schatz Schmitt Schumer Scott (FL) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NOT VOTING--3 King Padilla Scott (SC) The motion was rejected. ____________________
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Republican · South Dakota
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