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I certainly watched how agitated people got when they understood that the White House had changed their position, and you can understand, we’re all sort of working off the same sheet of music, usually.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
As a representative of Oxford, Michigan, I cannot believe that I’m here again doing this 15 months later, and I am filled with rage that we have to have another press conference to talk about our children being killed in their schools.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I met my husband on my third tour in Iraq, he’s a career army officer. His name’s Dave. We’re a service family, right? He’s thirty years in the army as an Apache pilot. He’s still a civilian counterterrorism planner four days a week at the Pentagon.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
From my perspective, if the district moves and is a Lansing-based district, and that is the district that’s most natural for me to run in, then I will move and live in the Lansing area and run in the Lansing district.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I remember being with a bunch of senior leaders in November, screaming my head off about the price of gas in November and being patted on my head and saying like,' Don't worry, we got to get through Christmas and it'll be better in 2022,' i don't think that we have a great sense of where this is going.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Whether you're a gun owner or not, whether you're a Democrat or Republican, I think most people feel it's reasonable to say parents should keep guns away from children. It's a child safety issue, not a Second Amendment issue.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
What really stood out in Oxford was the role that the parents played, we came up with this bill, building on good work that others have done -- both in the state of Michigan and also federally -- and created a bill that would make it against the law for a person to keep an unsecured firearm if it's reasonable the child could access that firearm.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I'm still hopeful, i think it just reflects the fact that gun safety issues, unfortunately, have become these really political conversations. I'm trying to defy that.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I personally don't think this is a congressional issue … so I am not taking a position on that.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Bennie Thompson is what you would hope for in a committee chairman, bennie Thompson is serious and experienced, but Bennie Thompson also allows people on Homeland Security Committee, like Elissa Slotkin, to take leads on things that are important to us. You know a lot of my peers, complain about Homeland Security Committee chairman or chairwoman, who don't let them do anything.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The place where I hear a real debate about staying in, changing the plan, reversing the decision, is inside the Beltway, if you go back to my district, where veterans are sending their sons and daughters off to fight in the same war that they fought in, I think President Biden is in touch with popular opinion about this.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I will say it will be interesting to know what the plan is longer term, you know, the Michigan National Guard is back participating in protecting the Capitol right now, our National Guardsmen will not be here and should not be here forever. These gates and fences should not be here forever. So do we have a security situation that's better than January 6, especially given the hell that the Capitol Police has gone through as an organization since then ? That's definitely something I'm interested in.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What I wanted to see in this package is sticking to the very specific emergency need that the country has, and so I feel like there are a lot of things that I pushed for, and I believe in, especially money for our cities and towns. There's money for testing, like really critical things, and then there are some things that I don't feel like had to be in the bill, and what I'm trying to decide is does the net positive outweigh that negative.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We had to switch up who was answering phones and for how many hours.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's increasingly difficult to get things out of China and a sanitizing process that's approved by the FDA is something that we can control, it's something that we can scale up.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There just have to be some decisions that are beyond the political calculus.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I haven't felt pressure from my leadership at all, i do believe we live in a world where there are still facts, where there is still data, where there are still rules, and there are still standards.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Im not waking up in the morning looking for some golden poll.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
My constituents expect me to make an objective decision.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I was trained as intelligence analyst, so we read the facts and make an assessment, and that's what I plan to do when the facts are presented.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The issue that got to me was this idea that the President, the most powerful man in the world, reached out to a foreigner, a foreign leader, and asked him to dig up dirt on an American.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I realized after a few people said it, that they were used to either a man running for office and the wife is way in the background, you know, quiet, not a part of the campaign, or there is a strong woman who's running, we've had strong women who have run and won, but their husband is nowhere to be seen. So when they saw a strong woman and a strong man together, that was new for them.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
None of us is ever going to get in a Twitter war with anyone else, if we have a concern with someone, we're going to go right up and talk to Chrissy Houlahan about it and we're not going to add unhelpful rhetoric to an already bad tone coming out of Washington.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Having the sitting President of the United States, use leverage over a foreign leader to get dirt on an opponent, that very basic idea, I think cut for us, as national security people, just close to the bone.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Being able to text folks and say,' you know, I'm really getting hit up on this issue, how have you been handling it ?' ' I'm not sure how to translate my service into something that's relatable. How do you guys do that ?' we have a lot in common.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I am doing everything I can to explain to people how I came to the decision. Because my hope is, even if they disagree with the decision, they give me the benefit of the doubt.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It just was meant to send a really clear signal from a large group of freshmen what are the things that are important to us, it was something that was requested by Tim Ryan, and so it's just a way for us to talk about what is important to us as a class.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I never want to be disrespectful to anyone who served, especially a woman who has broken glass ceilings, but you have to hear what people in your district are saying, and I got a very loud and clear signal from people across the aisle that they wanted new leadership.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Something just broke for me. It was the absolute straw that broke the camel's back.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
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