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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Oct 20, 2021

We used to have the Voting Rights Act, which was a mechanism DOJ could use to keep these overly restrictive, overly suppressive laws from going into effect.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Oct 20, 2021

Jim Crow in the 21st century is now a sinister combination of voter suppression and elective -- and election subversion.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Oct 20, 2021

Some state legislatures want to make it harder for you to vote. And if you do vote, they want to be able to tell you whether or not your vote counts. They want the ability to reject the final vote and ignore the will of the people.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Oct 20, 2021

No matter how long you live here in Scranton, it`s a place that climbs into your heart, and it never really leaves you and that`s the God`s truth. It`s like that old saying goes, you can take the boy out of Scranton, but you can`t take…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Oct 20, 2021

If we make the investments, there`s going to be no stopping America in the remainder of the 21st century. It`s never ever, ever been a good bet to bet against America. Never, never, never.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Oct 20, 2021

It isn`t enough just to invest in our physical infrastructure. We also have to invest in our people.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Oct 19, 2021

These bills are not about left vs. right, or about moderate vs. progressive, or anything that pits one American against another. These bills are about competitiveness vs. complacency, about expanding opportunity, not having opportunity…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Oct 19, 2021

We can`t afford to sit while other countries pass us by. We`re going to breathe new life into the economy and our work force.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Oct 19, 2021

There's something comparable between abortion and slavery [...] and that while the people who obviously suffer the most are those subjected to it, I think it has this morally distorting effect on the entire society.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Oct 19, 2021

Somewhere along the way, we stopped investing in ourselves. America is still the largest economy in the world. We still have the most productive workers in the world, and most innovative minds, but we risk losing our edge as a nation.

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Mike Pence
@mikepence· Republican · IN· Oct 19, 2021

I thank the gentleman from Louisiana for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise today in staunch support of the bipartisan Secure Equipment Act of 2021. Hoosiers back home in my home State of Indiana rely heavily on telecom companies to connect…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Oct 18, 2021

he’s not only a dear friend and a patriot, one of our great military leaders and a man of overwhelming decency.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Oct 17, 2021

Trump is a bully. He`s always been a bully. And that`s clear in his conduct in this particular case, where part of this deposition today involved, we`re told, Trump being confronted with evidence from his own campaign rallies, where he…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Oct 17, 2021

He`s not only a dear friend and a patriot, one of our great military leaders and a man of overwhelming decency, this is a guy born son of immigrants in New York City raised in Harlem in the South Bronx, graduated from City College of New…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Oct 17, 2021

If you`re going to trim the Build Back Better package, do you trim it in the way that Joe Manchin seems to want, which is you basically do one or two things, but you do those well, or in the way that Congresswoman Jayapal seems to want…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Oct 17, 2021

He’s not only a dear friend and a patriot, one of our great military leaders and a man of overwhelming decency, this is a guy born son of immigrants in New York City raised in Harlem in the South Bronx, graduated from City College of New…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Oct 17, 2021

If confirmed, I will prioritize efforts to share intelligence and evidence about such cases and encourage this information be used to support law enforcement actions, including indictments and property seizures.

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JD Vance
@jdvance· Republican · OH· Oct 17, 2021

It`ll be very important for DOJ to proceed. The madness has gone on for long enough. It`s time for someone to just tell Trump no, to tell him that the law applies to him.

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