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Liz Cheney

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Liz Cheney is an American attorney and politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Wyoming's at-large congressional district from 2017 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, she is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney. During her time in Congress, Cheney was known for her strong stance on national security and her opposition to former President Donald Trump, particularly following the events of January 6, 2021, which led to her being removed from her leadership position within the House Republican Conference.

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Apr 26, 2021

Individual colleagues that confided in Cheney that most of the conference was only too happy to move on from Trump but saying so in public was another matter.

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Apr 26, 2021

That’s something we’ve never seen in this country before.

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Apr 25, 2021

We have to be honest about what happened in 2020, so we can really learn the lessons of that and that is the election was not stolen.

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Apr 20, 2021

The notion that we are asking you simply to life-extend one more time technology from the 1970s is completely irresponsible.

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Apr 20, 2021

I wanted to remind the committee generally of something that President Truman said in NSC-68, which is timeless.

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Apr 13, 2021

We know that this kind of a pull back is reckless, it`s dangerous, it puts American security at risk. It will provide an opportunity for terrorists to be able to establish safe havens again.

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Apr 12, 2021

The only person who called the charges sickening, is Liz Cheney of Wyoming.

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Mar 30, 2021

You know, Representative Cheney said he was the one who assembled the mob. Let the match fanned the flames.

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Mar 29, 2021

He likes to be at the kind of the tip of the spear when it comes to Republican politics.

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Mar 9, 2021

We could have had a bill that was you know, a fraction of the class of this one that could have gotten bipartisan approval and support.

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Mar 9, 2021

I think all of us recognize we were reminded that day of how fragile our systems could be but also how resilient they are.

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Mar 8, 2021

And it didn't have to be this way. We could have had a bill that was, you know, a fraction of the cost of this one that could have gotten bipartisan approval and support, but the Speaker decided to go in another direction.

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Feb 24, 2021

We got to make sure that -- we got to make it so we`re not the party of white supremacy.

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Feb 24, 2021

I don`t believe think he should be playing a role in the future of the party or the country.

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Feb 24, 2021

I don`t believe that he should be playing a role in the future of the party or the country.

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Feb 24, 2021

I have been clear in my views about President Trump and the extent to which, following January 6, I don’t believe that he should be playing a role in the future of the party or the country.

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Feb 23, 2021

That's up to CPAC. I've been clear on my views about President Trump and the extent to which following January 6th. I don't -- I don't believe that he should be playing a role in the future the party or the country.

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Feb 23, 2021

I have been clear in my views about President Trump and the extent to which, following January 6, I don’t believe that he should be playing a role in the future of the party or the country.

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Feb 15, 2021

I definitely think we need to make the program permanent.

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Feb 15, 2021

Vast majorities of people want it. And if they knew what it would get them, they would want it even more.

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Feb 9, 2021

What Trump did constitutes the greatest violation of his oath of office by any president in the history of the country.

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Feb 8, 2021

If I were in the Senate, I would listen to the testimony, I would listen to the evidence, if you`re a senator, you have a responsibility to be a juror. I think that`s very important. But I, obviously, believe and did then that what we…

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Feb 8, 2021

Somebody who has provoked an attack on the United States Capitol to prevent the counting of electoral votes, which resulted in five people dying, who refused to stand up immediately when he was asked and stop the violence, that is a person…

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Feb 8, 2021

There will be a massive criminal investigation of everything that happened on January 6 and in the days before. People will want to know exactly what the president was doing. They will want to know, for example, whether the tweet that he…

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Feb 7, 2021

I obviously believe and did then that what we already know is enough for his impeachment. What we already know does constitute the greatest violation of his Oath of Office by any President in the history of the country, and this is not…

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