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I'm not going to sugar coat my disappointment here, especially since nearly all issues in the climate and energy space had been resolved, this is our last chance to prevent the most catastrophic — and costly — effects of climate change. We can't come back in another decade and forestall hundreds of billions — if not trillions — in economic damage and undo the inevitable human toll.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We need to understand what happened here because Senate Finance Committee raises serious concerns.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Our broken tax code is working for Big Oil, not American families.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is an area where the American people strongly believe… that Vladimir Putin has forfeited with his inhuman conduct the right to normal trade relations.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I believe the Russians -- the inhumane behavior of Russia does not justify it to get the fruits of the international community.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Every president should choose the personnel that will best carry out their vision for the country. To fulfill President Biden’s bold vision for improving and expanding Social Security, he needs his people in charge, i will work closely with the president to confirm a new commissioner as swiftly as possible to lead this critical agency.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Secretary-designate Yellen is one of the world’s top economic minds, and her perspective on economic matters has been widely sought after since she left the Federal Reserve.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
When millions of workers are unemployed through no fault of their own and sectors of the economy are struggling mightily, there is no excuse for delay.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Trumps payroll tax holiday could drain the Social Security trust fund and said some states can not afford the 25 percent unemployment match, especially since the GOP has opposed additional money to state and local governments. Donald Trump is trying to distract from Donald Trump failure to extend the $ 600 federal boost for 30 million unemployed workers by issuing illegal executive orders, this scheme is a classic Donald Trump con : play-acting at leadership while robbing people of the support they desperately need.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Three years after that report was submitted, the intelligence community is still lagging behind and has failed to adopt even the most basic cybersecurity technologies in widespread use elsewhere in the federal government.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Attorney General (William) Barr is demanding that companies like Facebook weaken their encryption to allow the Department of Justice to monitor users' conversations, congress and the American people must understand the serious national security risks associated with weakening the encryption that protects Americans' personal data, as well as government and corporate systems.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There is every reason to believe that his public statements would be designed for one purpose, and one purpose only – to please Donald Trump.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
You want to have it both ways, you want to try to portray yourself as a defender of the Constitution and then you water it down with the specifics.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think we made good progress. But both sides now have issues that they have to go back and check.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Tech companies have an extraordinary special safeguard against legal liability, but that unique protection comes with a responsibility.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This terrible legislation is a Trojan horse to give Attorney General Barr and Donald Trump the power to control online speech and require government access to every aspect of Americans' lives.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Amazon continues to sell defective cloud computing services to businesses, government agencies, and to the general public. As such, Amazon shares some responsibility for the theft of data on 100 million Capital One customers.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
A slap on the wrist from the FTC won't do the job, so under my bill Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg'd face jail time for lying to the government.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Trump is using the office to line his own pockets at the expense of the American people and our standing in the world, requiring our allies to spend money at the president's hotel to attend the G-7 would be an insult to them and a violation of our Constitution's emoluments clause.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Senate Intelligence wasn't Senate Intelligence. They're doing Senate Intelligence as we sit here, and they expect to do Senate Intelligence during the next campaign.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Given that Treasury Department has responded to my oversight questions, I have agreed to allow the nominations hearing for Brett McIntosh, Brian Callanan, and Brian McGuire to move forward so I can ask them directly about their involvement in this and other troubling episodes.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Taken together, this confirms that Treasury Department diverged from standard procedures in this case, from where I sit, the goal is to protect the President.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Last year, my office met with a top official from the Treasury Department to express my serious concerns about the national security risks associated with a Chinese company buying Grindr, it is high time for the administration and CFIUS to consider the national security impact of foreign companies acquiring large, sensitive troves of Americans' private data.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We now have an Interior secretary who has been on the job for one full business day and is already under investigation, with Bernhardt's track record and the number of allegations against David Bernhardt, it's no surprise. At least now, the American people will finally get the answers they deserve.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If politicians want to restrict the First Amendment or eliminate the tools with which much of the world communicates in real time, they should understand they are also taking away the tools that bear witness to government brutality, war crimes, corporate lawlessness and incidents of racial bias.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Drugmakers behave as if patients and taxpayers are unlocked ATMs full of cash to be extracted, and their shareholders are the customers they value above all else.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Olivier Brandicourt said it was' annoying to some extent,' olivier Brandicourt company, meanwhile, continues to raise the price of Symbicort.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
To me from an intelligence perspective, it's just Intel 101 that it would help our country to know what Vladimir Putin discussed with Donald Trump.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Instead of proposing meaningful changes that result in lower costs for families and taxpayers, Trump and his Administration are busy scoring cheap PR points that don't address the fundamental challenges that lead to higher prices every year.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Disclosing that information may not have been required by law. My view is, it would have been a smart exercise of judgment. Certainly if you want to eliminate any question about appearances, you can sell the properties off.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The U.S. shouldn't get suckered into a race to the bottom with a bunch of no-tax, resort-lined islands to please the tax avoidance industry and their lobbyists.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
This admission from DHS bolsters my concern about stingrays and other spying devices being used to spy on Americans’ phones.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The news of a possible foreign stingray near the White House is of particular concern giving reports that the President isn't even using a secure phone to protect his calls, the cavalier attitude toward our national security appears to be coming from the top down. It is high time for the FCC and this administration to act immediately to protect American national security.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I am not at all satisfied on where the committee is on the follow-the-money issue, and if anything, the case for following the money is stronger today than it was 60 days ago.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I urge the FCC expand the scope of this investigation, and to more broadly probe the practice of third parties buying real-time location data on Americans.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Unilateral concessions before an upcoming trade negotiation. This may be the art of the deal for China but it's a big loser for American workers, companies, and national security.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The vast amount of her background can be declassified without compromising what are called sources and methods.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It is going to take place in public yet I believe as of now people will not know much of what the nominee was doing during that crucial period and will not know a number of the facts I know that relate to her record and who she really is.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The Morell report confirms some extremely troubling facts about Deputy Director Gina Haspel and the destruction of interrogation videotapes, gina Haspel didn't just draft the cable that authorized the destruction of the tapes, Gina Haspel played a key role in events surrounding the drafting of the cable.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It is the right thing to do given this series of serious allegations.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
These emails show there is no longer a question of whether this campaign sought to collude with a hostile foreign power to subvert America’s democracy.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Today, across American we are taking the gloves off to say it’s time to knock off the tax rip-off, no more Cayman Islands tax breaks … no more Wall Street tax breaks.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Today, across American we are taking the gloves off to say it’s time to knock off the tax rip-off, no more Caymen Islands tax breaks … no more Wall Street tax breaks.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
This administration never had one substantive conversation with me about health care reform.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Clearly, they have a clear decision to make. Do they want to reach out and support policies that would be beneficial to everybody, which would be that you would have to have the bipartisanship that was so dramatically lacking in the health care debate? this administration never had one substantive conversation with me about health care reform.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
This is a dramatic expansion of the government’s hacking and surveillance authority, such a substantive change with an enormous impact on Americans’ constitutional rights should be debated by Congress, not maneuvered through an obscure bureaucratic process.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This rule change could potentially allow federal investigators to use one warrant to access millions of computers, and it would treat the victims of the hack the same as the hacker himself.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
So after leaving the front door open, the IRS left the back door open, too.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This 'cybersecurity' bill was a bad bill when it passed the Senate and it is an even worse bill today. Americans deserve policies that protect both their security and their liberty. This bill fails on both counts, i think this is very much on President Obama's shoulders.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
If America is to cure Alzheimer's, cancer, diabetes and HIV in the years ahead, these cures must not be unaffordable and beyond the reach of most Americans.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If Gilead's approach to pricing is the future of how blockbuster drugs are launched, it will cost billions and billions of dollars to treat just a fraction of patients.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This agreement with the duplicitous and untrustworthy Iranian regime falls short of what I had envisioned. However, I have decided the alternatives are even more dangerous.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We're continuing to talk to our colleagues, there's great interest in getting this done this week.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This has always been about reforming intelligence policies that do not make America safer and threaten our liberties.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They wait until the very last minute, they wait until the last minute and then they say, 'Oh my goodness it is a dangerous world we've got to continue this program the way it is!'.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This bipartisan bill creates whatIexpect to be unprecedented transparency in trade negotiations, and ensures future trade deals break new ground to promote human rights, improve labor conditions, and safeguard the environment.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I believe there will be Democratic support, number one. I believe it will pass the Finance Committee.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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