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Elaine Luria

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Elaine Luria is a U.S. Representative for Virginia's 2nd congressional district, serving since January 3, 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, Luria has focused on issues such as military and veterans' affairs, healthcare, and environmental protection. Before her political career, she served as a naval officer, achieving the rank of commander in the United States Navy. Luria's military background informs her legislative priorities, particularly in supporting the military community in her district.

Quotes by year · 20192026379 total · peak 2019 (133)
2019: 133 quotes2020: 23 quotes2021: 82 quotes2022: 132 quotes2026: 9 quotes
Feb 16, 2022

Well, again, this is a great step forward for the committee. It’s been very helpful the records we’ve already received from the archives and the fact that we’ll now have access to the visitor logs, as you mentioned. Of course, Trump could…

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Feb 1, 2022

Understanding what that pressure was, what plans were in place and what pressure was applied on the former vice president. To what extent was the former president or those people surrounding him involved in orchestrating and hatching this…

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Jan 28, 2022

I can only hope so. And it is encouraging to hear that at least one of the people receiving the subpoenas intends to cooperate with the committee.

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Jan 28, 2022

This was a plan. It was a plan for a coup.

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Jan 28, 2022

I think it`s truly central. And you just spelled it out. I mean, there was a plan, the Eastman memo. There`s the receipts.

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Jan 24, 2022

I`m very concerned about this. I`m concerned that someone in a position like this would be fired for political reasons.

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Jan 21, 2022

Well, you know, Chris, it`s very clear that those words that you just read never came out of the former president`s mouth, but they certainly should have.

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Jan 21, 2022

I mean, it wasn`t like, you know, some fringe person, maybe Sidney Powell, or people who, you know, were not involved in the government, wouldn`t have access to that kind of classified information.

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Jan 21, 2022

He had a responsibility to stop this violence and he didn`t do it.

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Jan 18, 2022

the Port of Virginia has received $70 million as well for our continuation of the Federal--dredging project.

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Jan 18, 2022

We are the third-largest port on the East Coast and had a record year in 2021.

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Jan 14, 2022

Were these forgeries of public records, were these forgeries of election documents? You know, what was the intent? Was this part of a bigger scheme?

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Jan 14, 2022

What has become incredibly clear to me, and you mentioned this in your opening remarks, this week has brought closer into focus that there has been a coordinated effort by Republicans to derail our democracy.

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Jan 11, 2022

By making much-needed investments in our water infrastructure, we can set coastal Virginia communities up for economic success.

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Jan 11, 2022

My top request for WRDA 2022 is that the Congress include language to clarify that Federal facilities are, in fact, included in the coastal resiliency feasibility study for coastal Virginia.

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Jan 11, 2022

We must take a closer look at Cedar Island and how to preserve the marsh.

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Dec 14, 2021

This is not a vote that I ever thought I would be asked to take. The idea that this body would find a former chief of staff to the President of the United States, a former Member of Congress, in contempt was unthinkable prior to today. We…

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Dec 14, 2021

The ultimate goal in all of this is to get this testimony because it`s key and very important to this investigation.

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Dec 14, 2021

As a committee, we`re trying to paint the full picture of what happened before leading up to and during January 6th and certainly any elements of that that reflect criminal activity or something that the committee is very interested in.

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Dec 13, 2021

The extent of this effort reached the highest levels of our government, and it runs right through Mr. Meadows.

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Dec 13, 2021

The fate of our republic has never faced a threat as acute and as imminent as we face today and that we are looking into through this investigation.

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Dec 13, 2021

Anything less than his full cooperation further enables the erosion of our Constitution, our democratic institutions, and the rule of law.

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Oct 27, 2021

This committee worked deliberately and in a bipartisan manner to reverse and add things back that were clearly missing from the budget.

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Oct 27, 2021

We know we need to be growing the size of the Navy.

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Oct 22, 2021

This is important and we are not going to allow people to defy the subpoenas from Congress, it`s essential that we get information from them.

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