“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 18, 2023
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul). The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 44, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 260 Leg.] YEAS--53 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Cotton Cramer Crapo Cruz Daines Ernst Fischer Graham Grassley Hagerty Hawley Hickenlooper Hoeven Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy King Lankford Lee Lummis Manchin Marshall McConnell Moran Mullin Murkowski Ricketts Risch Romney Rounds Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sinema Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Tuberville Vance Wicker Young NAYS--44 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Kelly Klobuchar Lujan Markey Menendez Merkley Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Reed Rosen Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Smith Stabenow Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Welch Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--3 Butler Durbin Paul The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 32) was passed, as follows: S.J. Res. 32 Resolved by the Senate and House of Represenatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to ``Small Business Lending Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (Regulation B)'' (88 Fed. Reg. 35150 (May 31, 2023)), and such rule shall have no force or effect. (Mr. Hickenlooper assumed the Chair.) The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Cortez Masto).…
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