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I do think he should recuse himself, the information we know right now raises serious questions about how close Justice Thomas and his wife were to the planning and execution of the insurrection.
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Enough is enough. Veterans deserve a hell of a lot better.
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We are trying to get COVID relief, i'm working with Sen. Romney and other Republicans in good faith to find some pay-fors that are acceptable to Democrats and Republicans in the House and the Senate. We hope to get it done.
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It shouldn’t have taken this long to confirm someone as obviously qualified as Shalanda Young, she’s been leading the OMB for nearly a year, she knows the budget and appropriations process like the back of her hand. She’s proven capable of working with Republicans and Democrats alike.
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When we're unable to find common ground, Democrats will hold firm in defense of our values and be willing to work alone, if needed. But this week, bipartisanship has propelled us over the finish line.
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War in Europe has focused the energies of Congress to getting something done and getting it done fast.
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These planes and other capabilities are very much needed, today, I am urging the administration to explore all feasible options for the transfer of these specific aircraft to Ukraine.
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The bottom line is simple. Vladimir Putin... has launched an unprovoked, immoral invasion of Ukraine, no one ... should fall... for Putin's lies that the Ukrainians wanted him to invade or that he was provoked to invade.
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I look forward to a bicameral conference process that builds on the broad bipartisan support of the Senate-passed U.S. Innovation and Competition Act to supercharge microchip manufacturing here in America, to fix broken and strained supply chains, and invest in the innovation needed to ensure the critical products of today and tomorrow are made in America, we have no time to waste.
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The Senate will have a fair process that moves quickly so we can confirm President Biden’s nominee to fill Justice Breyer’s seat as soon as possible.
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We will all confront a critical question: Shall members of this chamber do what is necessary to pass these bills? it is my hope that courage awakens within the heart of our Republican colleagues before the day is out. But if the Senate cannot protect the right to vote… under the existing rules, then the Senate rules must be reformed.
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As we debate these measures, the Senate will confront the critical question: Shall the members of this chamber do what is necessary to pass these bills and bring them closer to the president's desk? today we have just taken the first steps that will put everyone, everyone on the record.
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Make no mistake, the United States Senate will for the first time, debate voting rights legislation beginning on Tuesday.
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How can we in good conscience allow for a situation in which the Republican Party can debate and pass voter suppression laws at the state level with only a simple majority vote, but not allow the United States Senate to do the same? we will confront this sobering question and every member will go on record.
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Make no mistake, the United States Senate will — for the first time this Congress —debate voting rights legislation beginning on Tuesday. Members of this chamber were elected to debate and to vote, particularly on an issue as vital to the beating heart of our democracy as this one. And we will proceed.
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When tragedies occur, we come together, i am here to express the pain all New Yorkers are experiencing.
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Last night, you may have seen Senator McConnell try to Rule-14 18 gotcha amendments. He was trying to say, ‘See, Democrats, you're not going to like 50 votes,' i challenged him and asked unanimous consent that we have 50 votes on those 18 plus the voting rights Act, the Freedom to Vote Act, and the John Lewis Act. And of course, he objected. So we're not afraid of 50 votes. We want 50 votes. And McConnell's gotcha activity didn't quite work.
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If Republicans continue to hijack the rules of the chamber to prevent us from protecting our democracy, then the Senate will debate and consider changes to the rules on or before Jan. 17, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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Let us go no further down this road, i hope the Republican Leader and I can, in the coming months, find a way to build a firewall around the legislative filibuster, which is the most important distinction between the Senate and the House.
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Look, when a nominee doesn't get 60 votes, you shouldn't change the rules- you should change the nominee.
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I believe our constituents deserve to know which Senators choose to hide behind ill-conceived and abused rules.
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, members of our shared cross-border community have felt the pain and economic hardship of the land border closures. That pain is about to end.
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I have a brief, brief sentence, and that is that the White House, the House and the Senate have reached agreement on a framework that will pay for any final negotiated agreement. So the revenue side, this we have an agreement on. OK, thank you. it's a framework an agreement of a framework agreement.
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We must allow asylum-seekers to present their claims at our ports of entry and be afforded due process.
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One bill ca n’t pass without the other.
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Let's be clear. Democrats love tojust live it up and do all thesethings while the American peoplesuffer.Our border is wide open.Spending is a mess.Inflation is on the rise.The purchasing power of poorAmericans has been obliteratedwe have more than 10,000Americans locked behind Talibanlines in Afghanistan, and these people want to party.
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At its core, this legislation is about restoring the middle class in the 21st Century and giving more Americans the opportunity to get there.
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They need a little more time, i'm prepared to give it to them.
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We may need the weekend, we may vote on several amendments, but with the cooperation of our Republican colleagues, I believe we can finish the bipartisan infrastructure bill in a matter of days.
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It’s not just an idea whose time has come; it’s long overdue, we have all seen the agony of a young person arrested with a small amount of marijuana in his or her pocket. And because of the historical over-criminalization of marijuana, they have a very severe criminal record they have to live with their whole lives.
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Once again, the Senate Republican minority has launched a partisan blockade of a pressing issue.
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Donald Trump – his Big Lie has enveloped the Republican Party, and they run away from truth and honesty and fairness just to appease someone with a very authoritarian instinct.
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There is no good reason to allow this legal authority to persist in case another reckless Commander-in-Chief tries the same trick in the future.
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One track is bipartisan and the second track pulls in other elements of Biden's American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan, which will be considered even if it doesn't have bipartisan support, both are moving forward.
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We will finish it this week, we’ve been so bipartisan. I haven’t seen anything like it in all the years that McConnell was leader, where we have been so open to the process. Today, we just offered them four more Republican amendments.
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Literally, dozens of bipartisan amendments were added to the bill before it ever reached the floor, here on the floor, we are going to continue working through a series of amendments from both sides with such a depth of cooperation and consensus between our two parties, there is no reason we can't wrap up this bill this week and achieve a strong result for our country.
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Instead of doing what you should be doing when you lose an election in a democracy, attempting to win over those voters in the next election, Republicans instead are trying to disenfranchise those voters, shame on them.
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The process that I outlined for S.1 is a process that, I think, could very well cause the Senate to evolve.
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The vote today on the anti-Asian hate crimes bill is proof that when the Senate is given the opportunity to work, the Senate can work to solve important issues.
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We're going to keep going with New York City if that's all right with you, and New York City will sure as hell be back. Because of all the real, tough New Yorkers who, unlike you, loved it and understood it, stayed and rebuilt it.
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What amendments our friends in the minority propose is entirely up to them.
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Secretary Yellen told the Democratic caucus yesterday that it is her belief that if Congress fails to dedicate the necessary resources to meet the needs of the American people and survive this crisis, we will see long-term scarring in our economy, and our country would be mired in the COVID crisis for years.
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We must not, must not, repeat the mistakes of the past and do too little, too reluctantly, and too late.
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Mr. Mayorkas’ qualifications are unassailable: he is a seven-year veteran of the DHS and has already been confirmed by this chamber three—three—times, like most of President Biden’s Cabinet nominees, his nomination is also history-making: He will be the first Latino and first immigrant to hold the top job at DHS.
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Our preference is to make this important work bipartisan, to include input, ideas, and revisions from our Republican colleagues or bipartisan efforts to do the same. But if our Republican colleagues decide to oppose this urgent and necessary legislation, we will have to move forward without them.
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This argument has been roundly debunked from constitutional scholars from the left, right and center, it defies precedent, historic practice and basic common sense. It makes no sense whatsoever that a president or any official could commit a heinous crime against our country and then defeat Congress' impeachment powers by simply resigning.
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Well, we have the trial of the president. That's mandated by law.
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This mob was, in good part, President Trumps doing, incited by his words and his lies, this violence, in good part, his responsibility, his everlasting shame. Todays events certainly, certainly, wouldnt have happened without him.
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Theres strong support for these $2,000 emergency checks from every corner of the country.
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Millions are jobless, 170,000 Americans have died from COVID, and Donald Trump says, It is what it is. America, Donald Trump has quit on you.
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If there was ever an argument that we need Mr. Duffey to come and testify, this is that information.
They cannot even bring themselves to say that climate change is real.
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This is not a Republican issue or Democratic issue. A red state issue. A blue state issue. This is an American issue. In every state, Americans deeply care for their security.
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President Trump tried to squirm away from what he said yesterday, it’s twenty-four hours too late, and in the wrong place.
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Mr. Leonard Leo is the man who assembled Trump's list of potential Supreme Court nominees and no one, no one, has been more dedicated to overturning Roe v. Wade than Leonard Leo.
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Anything but that would be the absolute height of hypocrisy.
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We welcome the opportunity to address it and we’re going to work very hard in August to require our Republican colleagues to do something about it.
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Mitch McConnell ca n’t have it both ways. Mitch McConnell spends all of his time bragging to Mitch McConnell base that they’ve confirmed more judges than anyone else and now Mitch McConnell’s saying they have n’t confirmed enough.
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If the administration goes through with this reported deal, President Trump would be helping make China great again, would be a huge victory for President Xi, and a dramatic retreat by Pres Trump. Both parties in Congress should come together to stop this deal in its tracks.
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In his honor, we will continue to pressure the Pentagon to recognize the Frank E. Evans on the Vietnam Memorial.
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The key to a strong agreement is protecting our intellectual property here in America and stopping the Chinese from keeping out our best goods until we hand over our trade secrets.
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Mr. Bolton’s tendency to try to solve every geopolitical problem with the American military first is a troubling one, i hope he will temper his instinct to commit the men and women of our armed forces to conflicts around the globe, when we need to be focused on building the middle class here at home.
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She had deep convictions – on both issues important to the people of Rochester, and for the integrity and honesty of the political system, throughout her entire career, Louiseworkedwithpeoplefrom so many different philosophies and backgrounds, because she wassuch a genuinehuman spirit.The ferocity of her advocacy was matched only by the depth of her compassion and humanity.
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The most important thing Congress can do right now is to ensure that Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation continues uninterrupted and unimpeded.
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We have yet to reach an agreement on a path forward.
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On Fridayin the Oval Office, I made what I thought was a very generous offer to the president, the most generous offer yet, the president must take yes for an answer. Until he does, it’s the Trump Shutdown.
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Republican leadership can't get its tumultuous president on board with anything, the breakdown of compromise is poisoning this Congress and it all comes down to President Trump.
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We can’t keep kicking the can down the road, in another month, we’ll be right back here, at this moment, with the same web of problems at our feet, in no better position to solve them.
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It must go in a must-pass bill and the only must-pass bill that we see coming down the road between now and March 5 is this [stopgap measure]. So we continue to believe, insist, that it must be in this bill.
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We know the ACA is not perfect. But we also know what you’ve proposed is much worse.
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I think we had a strategy and it worked, democrats and Republicans in the White House and Senate were closer to one another than Republicans were to Donald Trump.
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Because of the White House’s glacial pace, there are hundreds and hundreds of Senate confirmable positions without any pending nominee from the administration, and just 7 pending nominees before the Senate, instead of pointing fingers of blame, the administration ought to roll up their sleeves and send qualified nominees to the Senate.
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It doesn’t have to be this way, the answer is not to change the rules, it’s to change the nominee.
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While Secretary Kerry mentioned Gaza in his speech, he seems to have forgotten the history of the settlements in Gaza, where the Israeli government forced settlers to withdraw from all settlements and the Palestinians responded by sending rockets into Israel.
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Reports of the CIA’s conclusion that Russia actively sought to help elect Donald Trump are simultaneously stunning and not surprising, given Russia’s disdain for democracy and admiration for autocracy, senate Democrats will join with our Republican colleagues next year to demand a congressional investigation and hearings to get to the bottom of this.
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It’s not just a risky strategy, it's the wrong strategy and it's going to fail.
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Advocates on both sides have strong cases for their point of view that cannot simply be dismissed. This has made evaluating the agreement a difficult and deliberate endeavor, and after deep study, careful thought and considerable soul-searching, I have decided I must oppose the agreement and will vote yes on a motion of disapproval.
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I'm disappointed in the efforts by President Obama.
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