“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 recordApril 19, 2024
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Schmitt), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance). The result was announced--yeas 62, nays 30, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 143 Leg.] YEAS--62 Bennet Blumenthal Booker Boozman Britt Budd Butler Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cotton Crapo Duckworth Durbin Ernst Fetterman Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hyde-Smith Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Lankford Lujan McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Murphy Ossoff Peters Reed Ricketts Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Rubio Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Thune Tillis Warner Welch Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--30 Baldwin Barrasso Braun Brown Cantwell Cramer Cruz Daines Hawley Hirono Hoeven Johnson Kennedy Lee Lummis Markey Marshall Menendez Merkley Murray Padilla Paul Sanders Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Tester Tuberville Van Hollen Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--8 Blackburn Capito Cortez Masto Hagerty Manchin Schmitt Vance Warnock The motion was agreed to. ____________________
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Republican · South Dakota
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