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This resolution is necessary as it is time when America can never hope to be a land of freedom and opportunity so long as half its population is treated like second class citizens.
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In 2023, we should move forward to ratify the ERA with all due haste, because if you look at the terrible things happening to women’s rights in this country … women in America have far fewer rights today than they did even year ago.
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Today, I am acting not just as Leader but as Dianne’s friend, in honoring her wishes, until she returns to the Senate.
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Look, I spoke to Senator Feinstein just a few days ago and she and I are both very hopeful that she will return very soon.
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Repealing this AUMF will in any way not hinder our national defense, in fact, the repeal is an important step in strengthening our relationship with Iraq.
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I hope this year, on the 20th anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, both chambers will finally speak in one voice and send the AUMF repeal to the president’s desk.
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I’m glad that repealing these AUMF has been a genuinely bipartisan effort. I expect we’ll have a number of amendment votes on the floor once the amendment is before us.
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There is no doubt about it: it’s time to clear the runway for President Biden’s choice for FAA administrator, Phil Washington. With recent events, including airline troubles and last week’s tech problem, this agency needs a leader confirmed by the Senate immediately, i intend to break this logjam, work to hold a hearing for Mr. Washington, where he can detail his experience and answer questions and then work towards a speedy Senate confirmation.
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A legend in California as the first woman senator, a legend in this Senate. She was the leader on so many different issues: assault weapons, environment, women’s rights and so much else.
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Our friends are playing politics with US intelligence. We sent a clear message to China that this is not acceptable. We protected civilians. We gained more intelligence while protecting our own sensitive information. And the bottom line here is shooting down the surveillance balloon over water wasn’t just the safest option, but it was the one that maximized our intelligence payload.
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Yes. Joe Biden's done an excellent, excellent job, if Joe Biden runs, I'm going to support Joe Biden all the way.
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We will maintain our new majority on committees, exercise our subpoena power and be able to clear nominees without discharge votes.
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She asked me to keep her committee assignments, and I agreed, kyrsten is independent, that’s how she’s always been.
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Despite the efforts of the Republican legislature to make it harder to vote, our people voted, people voted, Georgians voted, they said, 'We're not going to let these barriers stand in our way, even if we have to wait in line in the rain.'.
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We have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to, the only way we're going to have a great future in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants, the dreamers and all of them, because our ultimate goal is to help the dreamers, but get a path to citizenship for all 11 million or however many undocumented there are here. And we will be pursuing that in the next Senate.
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Leader McConnell and I have agreed to try and work together to make sure we get a yearlong funding bill done.
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If both parties can come together, today could be truly one of the highlights of the year for this body.
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My job at the end of the day will always be to prioritize getting things passed through this chamber, and marriage equality is too important an issue to risk failure.
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I want to be clear that passing this bill is not at all a theoretical exercise, but rather it is as real as it gets.
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With the races now called in Arizona and Nevada, Democrats will have a majority again in the Senate. And I will be the Majority Leader, this election is a victory, a victory and a vindication for Democrats, our agenda, and for the America and for the American people.
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Our candidates Catherine Cortez Masto, Mark Kelly, Maggie Hassan and John Fetterman and Raphael Warnock are just fine human beings who really care about people who have the understanding of how to get things done. And those who have been in the Senate have already accomplished great things.
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I'm making a plea to my Republican colleagues. We can disagree on so many issues. That's fair. But let's not have this kind of divisive negativity. Let's not have the condemnation of viciousness and even violence against poll workers, against so many others. Let us try to come together.
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I spoke with Paul Pelosi earlier this morning and conveyed my deepest concern and heartfelt wishes to Paul Pelosi husband and their family, and I wish him a speedy recovery.
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While this ruling keeps the existing DACA program in place, it continues to deny other eligible recipients the possibility to receive protection, for these reasons, Drew Angerer/Getty Images is time for Republicans to join Democrats in supporting legislation that will codify these life-saving protections and ensure Dreamers have the opportunity to finally receive the citizenship they’ve worked hard to earn.
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The permitting agreement is part of the The Inflation Reduction Act agreement, i ’m going to add it to the CR and it will pass.
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Senate Republicans have made very clear they will block legislation to fund the government if it includes bipartisan permitting reform, they've chosen to obstruct instead of work in a bipartisan way to achieve something they've long claimed they wanted to do.
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I want to thank President Joe Biden. We would never, never have gotten the inflation Reduction Act done without his steady hand for over a year and a half, he dared us to dream big, pushed us to aim high, and urged us to never let go of our promise to the American people.
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Keeping and growing the Democratic majority in the Senate is my top priority.
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President Joe Biden knew precisely when to step in and when to let negotiations play out.
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Our intention is to add it to the [continuing resolution], absolutely.
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We've got to get these judges done, they're lifetime appointments, they're very important and we will keep working on them.
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I’m not focusing on that, if we get a couple more seats in the Senate — right now, if the election were held today, we would pick up a few seats.
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We would get childcare, we would get paid family leave, we would help for the elderly home care, we would get the kind of things Joe Manchin was against and we couldn’t do in this bill.
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We would get the kind of things Joe Manchin was against and we couldn’t do in this bill.
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Our NATO alliance is the bedrock that has guaranteed democracy in the western world since the end of World War II. This strengthens NATO even further and is particularly needed in light of recent Russian aggression.
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When Leader McConnell and I met with the Finnish President and Swedish Prime Minister in May, we committed to do this as fast as we could and certainly before we go home for the August recess.
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I have some good news, the minority leader and I have come to an agreement to vote on the PACT Act this evening, i'm very optimistic that this bill will pass so our veterans across America can breathe a sigh of relief.
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I don't know where they came up with this, we offered Pat Toomey -- Pat Toomey's standing in the way -- the ability to do an amendment at 60 votes just like the bill is a 60-vote bill. Pat Toomey insisted, at least in conversations with some others, saying' no, no, no. If you don't put it in the bill,' which will kill the bill,' I'm not going to be for it.' I stand by the offer.
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By a wide margin, this legislation will be the greatest pro-climate legislation that has ever been passed by Congress.
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If this package does that in a bold way, this could put us on the path to reaching our goals and could be a huge win.
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The package is ready to go, the vast majority of senators on both sides of the aisle want it. There's now only one thing holding us back the junior senator from Kentucky is preventing swift passage of Ukraine aid because he wants to add at the last minute his own changes directly into the bill. His change is strongly opposed by many members of both parties.
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That is not the case for the overwhelming majority here, again all he will accomplish with his actions here today is to delay that aid. Not to stop it.
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This is not an abstract exercise, it's as real and as urgent as it gets.
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Borrowers don't just need their debts paused ; they need them erased, with the flick of a pen, President Biden could provide millions upon millions of student loan borrowers a new lease on life.
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After months of waiting, communities in Georgia and Ohio and Nevada and Minnesota and New Hampshire and other states are finally getting the security they need with confirmed U.S. Attorneys. So I'm very glad that this... finally, finally happened. It took too long but now it's done.
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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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Another glass ceiling shattered by a remarkable member of the President's historic Cabinet.
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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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We all know that when the post office is forced to cut hours of operation or delivery routes or lay off workers, the rest of us are worse off, thankfully, for the past few months, Democrats and Republicans have been working together in good faith to reform some of the most troubled parts of Postal Service.
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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 U.S. is a major oil producer. We only get one percent of imports from Russia, the real problem with gas prices is gouging and monopolies. Democrats are focused on those two issues. We are focused very strongly. You’re going to hear a lot more from us on those issues in the future.
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Read MoreSchumer was a strong and wonderful partner to Senator Feinstein, read MoreSchumer fought valiantly against illness in the final chapters of Read MoreSchumer life, a life so well lived.
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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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In the days to come, we will continue working and communicating with Senator Lujań's staff about Senator Lujań recovery process.
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I think we have shown that we've gotten a lot done, i spent the last week in New York. And you know, obviously, we haven't gotten everything everyone wants done, but people are quite pleased and impressed with what we've gotten done.
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People knew Joe Manchin positions, joe Manchin speaks to the press regularly, speaks to The White House regularly. Joe Manchin talked to Pelosi regularly. People knew Joe Manchin positions.
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When it comes to something as crucial as voting rights, can't just push it off the table, senators are there to vote. We had to vote. And I think it was the right decision. And it had virtually, it had broad, wide, and deep support in our caucus.
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I am focused on 2022, getting things done, and winning the election on 2022, i'm not at all focused on 2024 right now, and neither should anyone else be. That's just how you lose in 2022.
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Joe Biden set the agenda, and I am working to pursue that agenda, OK ? And I agree with it.
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It's the speech I gave many times before and many times after.
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We've got to move quickly. We've got to be thorough, but we've got to move very quickly, as quickly as we can.
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President Biden nominee will receive a prompt hearing in the The Senate Judiciary Committee, and will be considered and confirmed by the full United States Senate with all deliberate speed.
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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 lost the vote. But to have not voted would have been a far greater loss, we know history is on the side of voting rights, and we know that forcing leaders to take stands will ultimately move the ball forward.
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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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As we debate this issue, so critical to the wellspring of our democracy, we will all confront the critical question : Shall members of this chamber do what is necessary to pass these bills and move them to the President's desk ? It's my hope that courage awakens within the heart of our Republican colleagues before the day is out.
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Our proposal for a talking filibuster on these pieces of legislation would be the first step towards passing voting rights, restoring this body and breaking the gridlock that we now face on this vital issue.
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Senate Democrats are under no illusion that we face difficult odds, especially when virtually every Senate Republican is staunchly against legislation protecting the right to vote, but I want to be clear : when this chamber confronts a question this important, one so vital to our country, so vital to our ideals, so vital to the future of our democracy, you don't slide it off the table and say, never mind.
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Just a few days removed from what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 93rd birthday, the Senate has begun the debate on the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act for the first time in this Congress.
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We must consider and vote on the rule changes that are appropriate and necessary to restore the Senate, and make voting legislation possible.
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When this chamber confronts a question this important... you don't slide it off the table and say, ‘nevermind,’ win, lose or draw members of this chamber were elected to debate and to vote... And the public is entitled to know where each senator stands on an issue as sacrosanct as defending our democracy.
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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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I wouldn't want to delude anybody into thinking this is easy, but we're trying to come to a place where 50 senators can support two bills -- the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Act -- and with a change in the rules, so we can get the votes to pass these bills into law.
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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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We're discussing them in private with Sen. Manchin [and] Sen. Sinema, and before we vote on them, whichever one we've arrived at — you'll hear and see about it.
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It’s an uphill fight, i don't want to give anybody the illusion that we're there, but hopefully we can get 50 of us to come to an agreement.
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Rules have been changed in the past. That's an important point we're making to( Sen.) Manchin and Sen. Sinema, when circumstances change, the rules must change. Well wow, circumstances have sure changed with this new Republican party.
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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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Few dedicated their life and career to working for and delivering for working families like Senator Harry Reid, and it will be an honor to pay tribute to him in the Capitol next week.
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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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Responsible governing has won on this exceedingly important issue, the American people can breathe easy, and rest assured there will not be a default.
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Yesterday I had a good discussion with the President and the speaker where we talked about ongoing negotiations on finalizing Build Back Better before Christmas so we can pass Build Back Better before Christmas through the Senate.
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Last week, we advanced bipartisan legislation that will enable this chamber to address the debt ceiling on a fast-track basis. For the information of all, Senate Democrats will act tomorrow to prevent default.
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If their plans go into effect, Covid will linger longer and the chance of new variants and new more dangerous variants occurring increases, it is anti-science, anti-common sense. It makes no sense.
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If their plans go into effect, Covid will linger longer and the chance of new variants and new more dangerous variants occurring increases, it is anti-science, anti-common sense, it makes no sense.
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If we can pass the defense bill with USICA language included, I am hopeful that we will be able to work with the Speaker and our House colleagues to find a way to get this legislation enacted.
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On a bill of this magnitude, this process takes time and patience, timing of consideration of the BBBA in the Senate will largely depend on when Democratic House sends us the bill and when CBO finalizes their scores for all of the committees, which are needed to complete the' Byrd Bath' process.
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I thank her for working with us in good faith on this bill.
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Fixing prescription drug pricing has consistently been a top issue for Americans year after year, including the vast majority of both Democrats and Republicans who want to see it change because they simply can not afford their medications.
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The question before the Senate is how we will find a path forward on protecting our freedoms in the 21stcentury, the fight to protect our democracy is far from over in the United States Senate. Senate Democrats have made clear that voting rights is not like other issues we deal with in this chamber.
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As Canada prepares to further open the border next month, the United States is failing to reciprocate, jeopardizing an already tenuous recovery for thousands of businesses, families, and communities across Upstate New York.
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Kudos to President Biden for doing the right thing and increasing cross border travel between Canada and the U.S. The high vaccination rates on each side of the border have opened the door of safe cross border travel and will now safely increase the rebirth of the economic energy of Upstate NY.
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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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We have reached agreement to extend the debt ceiling through early December and it's our hope that we can get this done as soon as today.
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Too many Republicans seem proud of this, pushing us to the edge of default.
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Republican obstruction on the debt ceiling over the last few weeks has been reckless, it's been irresponsible, but nonetheless today Republicans will have an opportunity to get exactly what they kept asking for. The first and easiest option is this : Senate Republicans can simply get out of the way and we can agree to skip the filibuster vote so we can proceed to final passage of this bill.
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Tomorrow's vote is simply a cloture vote. It is not a vote to raise the debt ceiling, it's rather a procedural step to let Democrats raise the debt ceiling on our own, just as Republicans have called for.
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We're telling Republicans,' we're not asking you to vote for it, just let us vote for it,'.
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This debt is Trump debt, it's Covid debt. Democrats joined three times during the Trump administration to do the responsible thing and the bottom line is that Leader McConnell should not be playing political games with the full faith and credit of United States. Americans pay their debts.
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As default gets closer and closer to becoming a reality, our Republican colleagues will be forced to ask themselves how long they are going to keep playing political games while the economic stability of our country is at risk.
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Going through the long, convoluted, difficult reconciliation process with debt limit is very, very risky, we're not pursuing that.
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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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The White House, the The White House and the Senate have reached an agreement on a framework that will pay for any final negotiated agreement, so, the revenue side of this, we have an agreement on.
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Should Republicans careen our country towards a default, our country could actually be plunged into recession, laying off millions, making it harder for people to pay for the food on the table and their mortgages and their rents, shame, shame on the leader, the Republican leader.
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We are discussing all of the options with the president and with Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi.
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There are some in my caucus who believe $ 3.5 trillion is too much. There are some in my caucus who believe it's too little, and we're going to work very hard to have unity because without unity, we're not going to get anything.
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We're moving full speed ahead, we are moving forward on this bill.
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Our goal is to have a joint proposal that can the President, the House Dems and the Senate Dems can pass, and support and we are working towards that goal we're working well towards that goal, there are some disagreements as always comes about, but I am pleased with the progress we're making.
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I t would be just the height of responsibility for Republicans to play games to take the debt limit hostage, that would be playing with the full faith and credit of the United States. It would be a horrible act, a despicable act, really.
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These benefits are undeniably important for our nation seniors and were left out of Medicare at the beginning when they shouldn't have been.
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Everyone knows you've got to get rid of coal, but nobody has the ability to say here's what's going to be in the actual bill and here's an assessment of that.
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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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Job number one is for us to bring back, first, all American personnel ... But second, all of the brave Afghans who helped our military, they have to be provided an exit to come to America.
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We have reached a point in this chamber where Senate Republicans appear to oppose any measure no matter how common sense to protect voting rights and strengthen our democracy.
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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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The bill will represent a substantial down payment towards the level of infrastructure investment our country needs, and for the first time, the Senate has come together around such a package in decades.
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I rise today with some sad, some horrible, news about the passing of a great friend, Rich Trumka, who left us this morning, the working people of America have lost a fierce warrior at a time when we needed him most.
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This is an important bill. I know all the parties want to get this right.
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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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Given the bipartisan nature of the bill, The Senate should be able to process this legislation rather quickly, 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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We are surrounded by evidence of the climate crisis -- the fires out West, the heat waves, the floods, everywhere you look, because of global warming, things are getting worse and worse.
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Resuming these payments could stall our countrys economic recovery. It could bring millions of loan borrowers to the edge of financial crisis.
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As you know, I have done everything to speed them along. First with the motion to proceed on Wednesday and second with the global offer that we made Sunday night. We are getting close.
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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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It is not a final deadline for legislative text. It is not a cynical ploy, it is not a fish-or-cut-bait moment. It is not an attempt to jam anyone. It is only a signal that Senate Democrats is ready to get the process started – something Senate Democrats has routinely done on other bipartisan bills this year.
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Start debate on what ? You know, we don't have a product yet. And we won't have a product until we can finish the negotiations properly, again, this is a complex bill -- it involves several committees, it involves, you know, a lot of very tough issues because we've got to resolve them between us first, so again we're meeting today. ... We're moving as fast as we can.
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The budget resolution with instructions will be $ 3.5 trillion. You add that to the $ 600 billion bipartisan plan, you get to $ 4.1( trillion), which is very, very close to what President( President Biden) Biden asked us for, every major program that President Biden has asked us for is funded in a robust way.
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Communities of color have paid such an awful price for the historical overcriminalization of marijuana that we want to make sure the money goes back to The Democratic senators.
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Joe Biden is coming to Senate Democrats lunch tomorrow to lead Senate Democrats on to getting this wonderful plan that affects American families in a so profound way, more than anything that's happened to generations.
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The budget resolution with instructions will be $ 3.5 trillion. You add that to the $ 600 billion bipartisan plan, you get to $ 4.1( trillion), which is very, very close to what President( Joe) Biden asked us for, every major program that President Biden has asked us for is funded in a robust way.
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What the Republican governor is doing in Texas is just despicable, despicable, it boils my blood to even watch what they're doing to these brave people … when there's not any serious evidence of voter fraud.
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It does great things for families who have had to struggle with Covid, so many families have had to struggle, this is going to help.
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One of our goals in the upcoming Build Back Better plan is to extend this way beyond December 31. Many of us would like to make this permanent, but we're going to extend it. It will be extended for sure, for a very a significant amount of time, and we will see if we will get the permanence we are fighting for, so this is very, very important for everybody.
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With Joe Biden in the White House and Democratic majorities in the White House and Senate, the time is now to take action.
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Once again, the Senate Republican minority has launched a partisan blockade of a pressing issue.
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I want to be clear about what just happened on the Senate floor, every single Senate Republican just voted against starting debate … on legislation to protect Americans' voting rights.
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Republicans across the country are deliberately targeting all the ways that younger, poorer, nonwhite and typically Democratic voters access the ballot, republicans claim they’re making it easier to vote and harder to cheat in an election; but in reality, they are making it harder to vote and easier to cheat an election.
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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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Tomorrow, I'm convening a meeting with all 11 Democratic members of Senate Budget Committee regarding a fiscal year'22 budget resolution and now that President Biden's fiscal'22 budget request has been received by Congress, Senate Budget Committee can begin the important work of producing a budget resolution, both are moving forward -- the bipartisan track and the track on reconciliation and both we hope to get done in the month of July, both the budget resolution and the bipartisan bill.
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Both are moving forward -- the bipartisan track and the track on reconciliation and both we hope to get done in the month of July, both the budget resolution and the bipartisan bill.
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We must expand not only demographic diversity, but professional diversity, and I know that President Biden agrees with me on this, and this will be something that I will set out to do.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Senate Republicans mounted a partisan filibuster against a very straightforward piece of legislation to help provide equal pay to women, it's shocking that my Republican colleagues believe that the Senate has no role to play in defending the rights of women who are unfairly and illegally discriminated against in the workplace.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We're pursuing, a two-path proposal, on the one hand, there's bipartisan negotiations, and those are continuing. ... We all know, as a caucus, we will not be able to do all the things the country needs in a totally bipartisan, a bipartisan way. ... And so at the same time, we are pursuing the pursuit of reconciliation.
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Look, the only way that a bill to provide equal pay to women is designed to fail is if The Senate on Tuesday Republicans block The Senate on Tuesday.
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Reconciliation is certainly a serious consideration to get that big, bold action if we can't get it with Republicans.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Out of fear or fealty to Donald Trump, the Republican minority just prevented the American people from getting the full truth about January 6.
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This vote has made it official: Donald Trump’s big lie has now fully enveloped the Republican Party, donald Trump’s big lie is now the defining principle of what was once the party of Lincoln.
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I’m sorry that it may be bad politics for Republicans in their midterm campaigns, the Democratic-led Congress is not going to just sweep Jan. 6 under the rug. The truth will come out.
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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.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
S1 is very, very important to Washington Democrats Democracy. You can not let millions of people's rights be taken away, failure is not an option and everything will be on the table. We're continuing to have discussions within the whole caucus.
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They are caving to Donald Trump and proving that the Republican Party is still drunk off the big lie.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I want to see a ceasefire reach quickly and mourn the loss of life.
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In the wake of the 2020 elections.... former President Trump told a lie, a big lie, that the election was stolen... poisoning faith in our democracy and fomenting an armed insurrection at the Capitol.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We have discussions in our caucus all the time. Our leadership team is broad. It goes from Sen. Bernie Sandersto Joe Manchin. And in the past we have come together on every major issue.
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Every Republican in this room knows Joe Biden won the election fair and square. Every Republican knows that Donald Trump perpetrated the big lie. But the price of admission in today’s Republican Party is silence in the face of provable lies, aren’t there a few Republicans who will refuse to follow the rush of their party? Who will follow the example of a Liz Cheney?
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The big lie's consuming the GOP: House GOP's plotting the demotion of Rep. Cheney for the crime of repeating the truth—that Joe Biden is President, senate GOP seems content to allow the right to vote to be taken away.
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These laws are about one thing and one thing alone, making it harder for Americans to vote, they are reprehensible in my judgment. They are antidemocratic in the judgment of most. And they carry the stench of oppression.
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Down the hall from us, House Republicans are plotting the demotion of a Republican member for the crime of repeating the truth: that Joe Biden is the president of the United States and that Donald Trump is lying. Liz Cheney spoke truth to power, and for that, she’s being fired.
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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.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
S. 1 is going to be voted on by the committee on Monday, it will be voted by the floor of the Senate, Senate Democrats hope Senate Democrats Republican colleagues will join Senate Democrats because this is just democracy and common sense, if not, everything will be on the table, Senate Democrats must get it done.
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Tim Scott're making good progress with Sen. Tim Scott, this is a serious problem. We need strong legislation. And we're hopeful that the Booker-Scott negotiations can produce just that.
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This water infrastructure bill is a core component of the Republican infrastructure proposal released last week. So I hope this legislation will serve as a starting point for our two parties to collaborate on infrastructure when and where we can.
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We've got to continue to do that. We won in states like Georgia and Arizona, which last instance you would've said are Republican states.
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I believe the people who have been ranting and raving about starving schoolchildren, calling those people involved in legitimate political dialogue 'extremists,' are in fact promoters of paranoia and purveyors of hate and divisiveness.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There is a bipartisan consensus that the United States must invest in the technologies of the future to out-compete China.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
To have someone with such a background in civil rights at this time in American historyis so important and so vital to the country, and I'm so glad that the Senate has now approved herand she can do her vital job, including dealing with the systemic bias we've seen in policing and inlaw enforcement throughout the country.
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If our Republican colleagues, we welcome them on amendments throughout the bill, but if they don't see the big, bold need for change in infrastructure and climate that the nation sees and wants and that we see and want, we will have to move forward without them. But our first preference, let's see if they can work in a bipartisan way.
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This guilty verdict serves as an official proclamation of what so many of us have known for nearly a year: George Floyd was murdered by an officer who was sworn to protect and serve.
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We're not going to repeat the mistake of 2009 and'10 where for a year-and-a-half they negotiated and then nothing came of it.
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If Republicans let us get on the bill, we can work out a process to have bipartisan debate and amendments, but if the Republican minority prevents the Senate from even debating some of these common-sense proposals, we’ll have to try to move forward without them.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I think this is a careful, thought-out plan. Now, there are questions that remain. I’m happy to let you know that the administration has agreed to a classified briefing for all senators which we’ll have shortly so questions can be answered, you want to make sure that this Sept. 11 date is ... a date that sticks and it’s not kicking the can down the road.
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It’s my intention to make the first amendment a bipartisan one, but I can’t do that unless our Republican colleagues allow us to debate the bill.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We grieve with you. We feel that shock and sorrow with you. And we'll heal together with you.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Look, we all know we have to root out systemic bias in law enforcement and we feel the best way to do that is the Justice in Policing Act.
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We are open to strengthening the bill. There's an effort underway to add a bipartisan amendment, sponsored by Senators Blumenthal and Moran, one a Democrat one a Republican, as an amendment, and their bill would provide resources to state and local law enforcement to improve hate crime reporting, increase training, and establish pathways to rehabilitation, as majority leader, it's my intention to make the first amendment a bipartisan one, but I can't do that unless our Republican colleagues allow us to debate the bill.
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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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Addressing infrastructure, climate and environmental justice together, and creating millions of good paying jobs, is just the right combination to meet head on the challenges that America now faces, this will not only make clean energy and clean transportation affordable, it will create millions of new jobs with good wages, which always occurs when we invest in infrastructure and manufacturing as we will be doing here.
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The Senate is going to debate and address the epidemic of gun violence in this country.
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Make no mistake : the era of Mitch McConnell's legislative graveyard is over.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Following the despicable attack on January 6, there must, there must be truth and accountability if we are going to move forward, heal and bring our country together once again, sweeping something as momentous as this under the rug brings no healing whatsoever.
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Many of these families because of Covid don't have money for a proper funeral and a proper burial. And that is just awful and inhumane.
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I want to address the vote the Senate took yesterday on the point of order raised by the junior Senator from Kentucky, i regret to say: for 45 Republican Senators to vote for a spurious constitutional objection to the coming impeachment trial was deeply, deeply, irresponsible.
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What amendments our friends in the minority propose is entirely up to them.
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There’s universal agreement: We must go big and bold, we are united as one for a big, bold package, working with our Republican friends when we can.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
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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I am happy to report this morning that the leadership of both parties have finalized the organizing resolution for the Senate, we will pass the resolution through the Senate today, which means that committees can promptly set up and get to work with Democrats holding the gavels.
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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.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The Senate, as early as next week, will begin the process of considering a very strong COVID relief bill, we need recovery and rescue quickly. Everywhere you look alarm bells are ringing.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I regret to say for 45 Republican senators to vote for a spurious constitutional objection to the coming impeachment trial was deeply, deeply irresponsible, only five Republican senators are willing to take a principled stand against this reckless and ill-advised effort by members of this body who are eager to excuse President Trump's campaign to overturn the election, and apparently, to excuse President Trump incitement to the mob that every one of us experienced in this Capitol.
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Time is of the essence to address this crisis, we are keeping all options open.
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In keeping our options open, on our caucus call today, I informed senators to be prepared that a vote on a budget resolution could come as early as next week.
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Now, I have heard some of my Republican colleagues argue that this trial would be unconstitutional because Donald Trump is no longer in office, an argument that has been roundly repudiated, debunked by constitutional scholars left, right and center, and defies basiccommonsense, it makes nosensewhatsoever that a president — or any official — could commit a heinous crime against our country and then be permitted to resign so as to avoid accountability and a vote to disbar them from future office. It makes nosense.
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We can get a lot of the COVID bill done with reconciliation, and that’s something we certainly will use if they try to block this immediate COVID bill.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
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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We have made good progress in our efforts to determine the timing and structure of the impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
During that period, the Senate will continue to do other business for the American people, such as Cabinet nominations and the COVID relief bill which would provide relief for millions of Americans who are suffering during this pandemic.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The Senate will conduct a trial of the impeachment of Donald Trump, it will be a full trial. It will be a fair trial. But make no mistake, there will be a trial, and when that trial ends, senators will have to decide if they believe Donald Trump incited the insurrection against the United States.
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The House will deliver the article of impeachment to the Senate. The Senate will conduct a trial of the impeachment of Donald Trump. It will be a full trial. It will be a fair trial.
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Right now, we don't know whether it will be abused, if they're going to use it to obstruct absolutely everything, then I'm prepared to change my mind.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Our caucus believes that the fairest easiest and most bipartisan way to come to an organizing resolution is to enact the 2001 agreement that senators Lott and Daschle came to in a bipartisan way back then. We, our caucus, is strongly opposed to any extraneous provisions.
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Once he leaves office, do we really expect him to change his tune and accept the truth? of course not. He will continue spreading lies about the election and stoking the grievances of his most radical supporters. Using the prospect of a future presidential run to poison the public arena.
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Well, we have the trial of the president. That's mandated by law.
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That is a very slippery slope, when we talk about US persons, that is a very slippery slope.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're going to have to do several things at once, but we got to move the agenda as well, yes, we've got to do both.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The threat of violent extremist groups remains high and the next few weeks are critical in our democratic process with the upcoming inauguration at the U.S. Capitol to swear in President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I'll ask consent for the final time that The Senate set a time for a vote on the House bill to provide $ 2,000 checks. I've done it every day this week. This is it -- the last chance for the 116th Congress to pass $ 2,000 checks and to say to regular Americans that help is on the way. Let's have a vote.
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At the very least, The Senate deserves the opportunity for an up-or-down vote.
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Theres strong support for these $2,000 emergency checks from every corner of the country.
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I'm not going to do any negotiations here in public, as you know, I believe state and local aid is vital to get something done. There are lots of things that are vital to get things done, but I'm not negotiating in public.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If the Republican leader would only back off maximalist demands on corporate immunity, we could get something done.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I urged The Trump administration to be tough on China, but in a much smarter, multilateral way than the The Trump administration administration was, so that American workers aren't left behind and so the US leads in critical industries like semiconductors, quantum computing, and clean energy.
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The Republican leader should not waste the Senate’s time on another inadequate, partisan proposal and instead should sit down with Democrats to begin a true bipartisan effort to quickly meet the needs of the country.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I fully expect to see some crocodile tears spilled on the other side of the aisle over President-elect Biden's Cabinet nominees, but it will be very tough to take those crocodile tears seriously.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I just heard Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell say Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's going to put another partisan proposal on the floor, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's going to talk to Kevin McCarthy and President Donald Trump and put something on the floor, the obvious fact of the matter is, the biggest impediment to getting an agreement is the Republican leader refusing to negotiate in a bipartisan way.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This should be a moment of clarity for everyone, this is a huge crisis and we need big relief.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I've had a long and serious talk with Dianne Feinstein, that's all I'm going to say about it right now.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Maybe we should give the moderator a mute button, given how President Trump just interrupts atwill, and the bottom line is Donald Trump doesnt follow the rules [and]the commission hasgot to get a lot tougher.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
When you flip your vote a few weeks before the election, the American people see right through it. Vulnerable Republican senators are worse off today no matter how Vulnerable Republican senators voted because Vulnerable Republican senators flip-flopped, vulnerable Republican senators can't hide from all Vulnerable Republican senators votes to repeal the ACA and this new vote only shows Vulnerable Republican senators hypocrisy.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Republicans came to us with this resolution, but it ignored Justice Ginsburg's dying wish, what Justice Ginsburg called Justice Ginsburg most' fervent wish' that Justice Ginsburg not be replaced until a new president is installed, so we simply have added it to the exact same text of the resolution the Republicans gave us.
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Let me be clear : if Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans move forward with this, then nothing is off the table for next year, nothing is off the table.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The event at the country club is just what President Donald does, a big show but it doesn't do anything, and as the American people look at these executive orders they'll see they don't come close to doing the job.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If we pass emergency rental assistance and extend the evictions moratorium, we'd help families and individuals pay the bills, stay in their homes and stabilize the rental market and help owners keep up with their property taxes and mortgages, so, once again, I say to Leader Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to Senate Finance Republicans, work with us to get something done.
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Congressional Democrats pushed it. It's got ta be 100 %, not 94 %, not 97 %.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This was the longest meeting weve had and it was more productive than the other meetings.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Right now they don't get how serious the problem is, did we have a good discussion ? Yes. Will we continue to discuss ? Yes. Do we want to continue to come to an agreement ? Absolutely. But it's got to meet the gravity of the problem.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The idea that we need to drastically reduce these benefits because workers will stay home otherwise is greatly exaggerated.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
When it comes to spending money on these kinds of things, a number of Republicans just are not going to be willing to do that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The lack of any urgency, understanding, and empathy for people who need help from Senate Republicans has led us to a very precarious moment.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Job No. 1 for us is to get the majority. We don't take anything for granted, but it's looking better and better, once we get the majority, we'll discuss it in our caucus.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have not heard a peep from( Senate Democrats Majority Leader Mitch) McConnell or the Republicans or the administration on any proposal, even though we've been asking for weeks and weeks and weeks.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
McConnell knows from the previous bills that passed in Senate Democrats he's got to work across the aisle.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The bottom line is we're going to fight for the whole HEROES bill period.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I was not briefed on the Russian military intelligence but it shows that we need in this coming defense bill, which we're debating this week, tough sanctions against Russia which thus far Mitch McConnell has resisted.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This place is full of people who want to do finger pointing and partisan games. The American people are sick of it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
When you don't believe in truth, you can't solve the problem. And the President avoids truth in every way, that's all I'm going to say.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This legislation is so important because just like any other small business, access to this federal funding could be a vital lifeline for local news outlets that are losing major advertising revenue and suffering huge financial losses.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We've made very good progress and I'm very hopeful we can come to an agreement tonight or early tomorrow morning.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We have greatly strengthened the bill and we're proud of what we've done.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's a huge bill of $ 2 trillion, with many different moving parts.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We haven't dotted the i's and crossed the t's. But conceptually, I think we're there.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
That means a dramatic expansion and reform of unemployment insurance ; we need unemployment insurance on steroids, some are calling it employment insurance.It must be easier to access. It must cover many more Americans during this crisis, including Americans who have non-traditional employment. And it must provide more generous benefits. Workers who are laid off should receive a paycheck equal to what they were receiving while employed. Workers must be protected whether they work for businesses small, medium or large. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats have also proposed including additional $ 200 per month of Social Security benefits for recipients, as well as to suspend all student loan payments throughout the entirety of the national emergency. President Trump, on Friday, announced that he would suspend all federal student loan payments, penalty and interest free, for at least the next 60 days. Despite the disagreements from GOP senators, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Senate Democrats are.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I believe no one has seen the proposal, or I haven't seen.... the proposal, it had virtually no input from Democrats. But we will look at it and read it tonight.
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We will need big, bold, urgent federal action to deal with this crisis.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The Trump administration has shown towering and dangerous incompetence when it comes to the coronavirus, mr. President, you need to get your act together now. This is a crisis.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It sends a shot across Chuck Schumer bow that the majority of the The Senate and the majority of The House do not want the President waging war without congressional approval.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The verdict of this kangaroo court will be meaningless. By refusing the facts, by refusing witnesses and documents the Republican majority has placed a giant asterisk, the asterisk of a sham trial, next to the acquittal of President Donald Trump, written in permanent ink, acquittal in an unfair trial with this giant asterisk, the asterisk of a sham trial, is worth nothing at all to President Donald Trump or anybody else.
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Republicans have gone from denying what the President did, to normalizing it by claiming every President does it, to now saying there's nothing wrong with it even if he did it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Trump and McConnell could call for Joe Biden today. President Donald Trump don't want to. President Donald Trump know it would turn things into a circus.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If thats your reason? That he mis-cited some press article? Come on.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
There will be a good number of votes. We are willing to do some of those votes tomorrow. Theres no reason we have to do them all tonight and inconvenience the Senate and the Chief Justice [ John Roberts ], but we will not back off on getting votes on all of these amendments.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Those votes at the beginning of the trial will not be the last votes on witnesses and documents. Make no mistake, we will continue to revisit the issue.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If any Senate Republican opposes issuing subpoenas to the four witnesses and documents we've requested they would make it absolutely clear they are participating in a cover up in one of the most sacred duties we have in this Congress, in this Senate, and that is to keep a president in check.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
As I said, discussion in this kind of situation is not out of the question at all, saying youre going to do just what the president wants is totally out of line and Mitch McConnell has received a lot of justified criticism for that.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It's hard to imagine a trial not having documents and witnesses. If it doesn't have documents and witnesses, it's going to seem - to most of the American people - that it is a sham trial, a show trial.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I met with Bernie Sanders on Thursday, we had a cordial conversation, i said,' we need witnesses and documents, it's only fair, it's only right.' Bernie Sanders said,' no.' I said,' Please think about it over these holidays.' Let's hope Bernie Sanders is.
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Until we hear from the witnesses, until we get the documents, the American people will correctly assume that those blocking their testimony were aiding and abetting a cover up, plain and simple, president President Donald Trump, release the emails, let the witnesses testify, what are you afraid of ?
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Do you think Chuck Schumer is impartial ? Do you think Elizabeth Warren is impartial ? Bernie Sanders is impartial ?
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If there was ever an argument that we need Mr. Duffey to come and testify, this is that information.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and I want one thing, we want a fair trial, a fair trial, in my way of thinking, involves witnesses and documents. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer don't have trials without them.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Mitch McConnell said proudly Mitch McConnell is not Mitch McConnell. The American people want Mitch McConnell to be an impartial juror in this situation.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
As I said, discussion in this kind of situation is not out of the question at all, saying you're going to do just what the President wants is totally out of line and Mitch McConnell has received a lot of justified criticism for that.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
For him to talk to the President is one thing. For him to say,' I'm going to do just what the President wants,' is totally out of line.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Putin and his intelligence services disinformation campaign team in Moscow couldnt have cooked up a more useful tool for spreading conjured and baseless conspiracy theories than the one Chairmen Graham, Grassley and Johnson announced today.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
For a guy who promised to be tough on China, President Trump's reliable deference to President Xi is all the more bewildering. Being tough on China when it comes to human rights will also help us win the battle on trade.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The hypocrisy, the self-serving nature of the president's statements and his Republican allies here in the House and Senate is glaring.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
One the one hand, you say you want everything to be public when it comes to the hearings. But you won't give up any documents, the hypocrisy, the self-serving nature of the president's statements and his Republican allies here in the House and Senate is glaring.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I asked the president what his plan was to contain ISIS. He didn't really have one.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
President Donald Trump on Wednesday was insulting, particularly to the speaker. Speaker Pelosi kept Speaker Pelosi cool completely, but President Donald Trump on Wednesday called Speaker Pelosi a third-rate politician, this was not a dialogue, it was sort of a diatribe. A nasty diatribe, not focused on the facts.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We need the complaint, simply to release the transcript is not going to come close.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
They (Republicans) know darned well that $12 billion in additional money for the wall is not going to fly with Senate Democrats or the House of Representatives.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It's critical that we respond to the Chinese Communist Party's actions against the people of Hong Kong as they exercise their right to freedom of expression and other fundamental democratic rights, we must take action to demonstrate to President Xi that the United States Senate stands shoulder to shoulder with the people of Hong Kong.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The United States Military Academy at West Point was founded as an engineering school, designed to ensure that our Army's leaders had access to the best resources and education that would enable them to succeed in their military careers in defense of our nation, now, we find out that funds that Congress appropriated to design and build a state-of-the-art engineering center at West Point have been redirected for an expensive and ineffective wall at the southern border.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is a slap in the face to the members of the Armed Forces who serve our country that President Trump is willing to cannibalize already allocated military funding to boost President Trump own ego and for a wall President Trump promised Mexico would pay to build.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Independent of any party or politics, everyone will miss Georgia Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
When a such a legendary personality extends his desire to improve the level of America's most talented chess players, it is a sign that some goodwill is possible between us.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We Democrats are not going to settle for half-measures so Republicans can feel better and try to push the issue of gun violence off to the side.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I talk to her three, four, five times a day. I think we have the same view. Let's get the facts. Let's get all the facts, and then we'll make decisions, every member of the House and Senate is going to do what he or she thinks is appropriate. I think, as I said, Speaker Pelosi is handling this appropriately.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Every member of the House and Senate is going to do what he or she thinks is appropriate. I think, as I said, Speaker Pelosi is handling this appropriately.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If Senate Republicans elevate such a partisan player to a position that requires intelligence expertise and non-partisanship, it would be a big mistake.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Its clear that Rep. Ratcliffe was selected because Texas Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe exhibited blind loyalty to President Trump with Texas Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe demagogic questioning of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller, if Senate Republicans elevate such a partisan player to a position that requires intelligence expertise and non-partisanship, it would be a big mistake.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We're close, there is a desire to come to an agreement from all of us.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
My worry here is if Mulvaney tries to be too hard on the offset side that we wouldn't be able to come to an agreement, i hope he will let Steve Mnuchin and us come to the agreement and I think we can get it quite soon.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
President Trump is missing an opportunity to nominate a fighter for workers, like a union member, to be Americas next Labor Department Secretary, instead, President Trump has again chosen someone who has proven to put corporate interests over those of worker rights. Workers and union members who believed President Trump when President Trump campaigned as pro-worker should feel betrayed. In 2005, Walmart hired Antonin Scalia to defend against whistleblower lawsuitsby employees who alleged wrongdoing in the company. Antonin Scalia also helped overturn a Maryland law in 2006 that would have required big companies such as Walmart to spend more on employee health care in the state. That law ran afoul of a federal statute aimed at reducing red tape for certain national employers, who otherwise would have had to afford significantly differentbenefits to employees depending on their state of employment. The Wall Street Journal wrote in 2012 that Antonin Scalia.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
A social media summit designed to give support to the most radical viewpoints on social media should never have been planned by the White House in the first place.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I hope today's briefing provides members with specific information about what the departments and agencies are doing to combat the threat to our elections and what we ought to do next, after it concludes, we can not let this issue sit on the backburner. Senate Democrats and Senate Republicans alike must roll up Senate Democrats sleeves and get to work, the Majority Leader included.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I am calling on Secretary Acosta to resign, it is now impossible for anyone to have confidence in Secretary Acosta's ability to lead the Department of Labor.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This is a very difficult time, with everything going on in Iran and with provocations and counteractions. And to have no Secretary of Defense at this time? It's appalling, and it shows the chaos in this administration.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Why isn't Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer moving bills onto the floor -- bipartisan bills to deal with election security in 2020. FBI Director( Christopher) Wray said it's going to be worse in 2020 than it was in 2016. And because the Russians laid off in 2018, a non-presidential year, doesn't mean we can sit and do nothing. And yet that seems to be what Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants to do.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Let's hope that these murmurings among Republicans ... are real and they will actually stand up to him.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We're trying to come to an agreement, and one of the biggest questions is how to fund all of the needs of the middle-class on the domestic side.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We should not be having a multifront war on tariffs, i would focus everything on China. And get the Europeans, Canadians and Mexicans to be on our side and focus on China. Because they are the great danger.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
China will take advantage of us decade in, decade out, unless we are strong with them, that is what we have to do, and it will help America in the long run.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It's sort of like Richard Nixon saying let's move on at the height of the investigation of his wrongdoing.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This action only proves President Donald Trump and Donald Trump Department of Justice would rather make political points than defend our health care law that protects the 133 million Americans with pre-existing conditions, has provided tens of millions more Americans with health insurance coverage, and has lowered prescription drug costs for millions of seniors, president Trump wants to take all of that away from the American people, jacking up health care costs and leaving millions without coverage.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
In previous meetings, the president has said, 'If these investigations continue, I can't work with you.' He didn't bring it up. And so, I believe we can do both at once, we can come up with some good ideas on infrastructure. We want to hear his ideas on funding. That's going to be the crucial point, in my opinion. And the House and the Senate can proceed in its oversight responsibilities. The two are not mutually exclusive and we were glad he didn't make it that way.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We agreed on a number, which was very, very good - $2 trillion for infrastructure. Originally we had started with a lower - even the president was eager to push it up to $2 trillion.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Don't let President Trump fool you, America. Republicans are not the party of healthcare. They are the party that wants to end your healthcare, we Democrats will not stop fighting tooth and nail to protect America's healthcare, today, tomorrow, and on in through 2021.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Mr. Moore doesn't have the background. He's a politician. He's political.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It is a stark reminder of the difference between our two parties: Democrats are fighting to expand and improve healthcare coverage and lower costs while Republicans are trying to take it all away and raise costs.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Republicans want to force this political stunt to distract from the fact that they neither have a plan nor a sense of urgency to deal with the threat of climate change, everyone knows it's a stunt, including the majority leader himself. He put something on the floor and then votes no. What's the point of that ?
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Make no mistake about it, this is an escalation of the Trump administration and Republicans' attacks on protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Let there be no doubt, these disasters are magnified precisely because of climate change, i can not fathom the level of cognitive dissonance required to schedule these votes one right after the other.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Plain and simple, the Democratic party supports Israel and we will continue to do so and we will maintain that bipartisan relationship through thick and thin. Israel depends on it.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It is no surprise that the president holds the rule of law and our Constitution in minimal regard. There is no emergency ; Congress has refused to fund his wall multiple times ; Mexico wont pay for it ; and a bipartisan majority in both chambers just voted to terminate his fake emergency.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Today's votes cap a week of something the American people haven't seen enough of in the last two years, my hope is that this past week isn't an aberration, but a turning point.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Democrats and Republicans both know the sad truth: The president did not declare an emergency because there is one, he declared an emergency because he lost in Congress and wants to get around it.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
They cannot even bring themselves to say that climate change is real.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think without question Chad Readler would not get on the bench, the 60-vote threshold brought parties together and picked more judges to be moderate.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
This issue transcends partisan politics, and I urge all senators -- Democrats and Republicans -- to support this resolution to terminate the president's emergency declaration when it comes up for a vote in the Senate, identical companion legislation to the House resolution will soon be introduced in the Senate.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
When the president stays out of the negotiations, we almost always succeed.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The debt ceiling. No more hostages! that's not a good idea. We ought to be negotiating to get an agreement.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Stacey Abrams offers a welcome, stark contrast to President( Donald) Trump's politics of division and lack of leadership as American families are still feeling the impacts of Stacey Abrams self-imposed shutdown, stacey Abrams is a present and future leader in this country. She is a dynamic, moral leader ; she delivered results on the issues that matter most to Americans ; and she tirelessly pursues fairness and justice for everyone in her state.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We don't agree on some of the specifics of border security. Democrats are firmly against the wall, but we agree on many things such as the need for drug inspection technology, humanitarian aide, strengthening security at our ports of entry. And that bodes well for finding an eventual agreement.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The President has agreed to our request to open the government and then debate border security.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We in Congress will roll up our sleeves and try to find some agreement on border security.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Forty-two Republican senators chose today to stand with Vladimir Putin, i'm extremely disappointed that many of my Republican colleagues are too afraid of breaking with President Trump to stand up to a thug.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I will say this, Democrats in the House and Senate are united, we have three words for President Trump, Mitch McConnell and Leader McCarthy : Open the government. We are all united and we're finding Republicans beginning to join us.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
This is not the moment to give up a source of leverage over the Russian government.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
At the time when these things are coming forward, to undo the sanctions on Rusal? Very suspect, very suspect.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I have concluded that the Treasury Department's proposal is flawed and fails to sufficiently limit Oleg Deripaska's control and influence of these companies and the Senate should move to block this misguided effort by the Trump Administration and keep these sanctions in place.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Leader McConnell and Senate Democrats Republicans have a responsibility, not simply to wait for The President, but to intervene.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
He asked (House) Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi, 'Will you agree to my wall?' She said no. And he just got up and said, 'Then we have nothing to discuss,' and he just walked out. Again, we saw a temper tantrum because he couldn't get his way.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The symbol of America should be the Statue of Liberty, not a 30-foot wall, so our suggestion is a simple one. Mr. President: Reopen the government and we can work to resolve our differences over border security. But end this shutdown now.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Most presidents have used (White House) Oval Office addresses for noble purposes. This president just used the backdrop of the Oval Office to manufacture a crisis, stoke fear and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
There is chaos now, this week was one of the most chaotic weeks we've ever seen in American government.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
President Trump should understand, there are not the votes for the wall. In White House or the Senate, President Trump is not going to get the wall in any form.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The first thing we are going to do, when we get back there in the Senate, is put a vote on the floor urging an intervention in the case.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Secretary Zinke was one of the most toxic members of the cabinet in the way Secretary Zinke treated our environment, our precious public lands, and the way Secretary Zinke treated the government like it was Secretary Zinke personal honey pot, the swamp cabinet will be a little less foul without Secretary Zinke.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
If President Trump sticks to President Trump position of a $ 5 billion wall, President Trump will get no wall and President Trump will get a shutdown.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Mitch McConnell embodied the characteristics Nancy Pelosi admire in a president : integrity, civility, dignity, humility.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It would be a shame if the country suffered because of Trump temper tantrum, it's up to him.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson is -- is strong as could be, democratic Sen. Bill Nelson believes, I believe, Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson's won a majority of the votes, and as long as they're counted, Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson will continue being senator from Florida.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell owes an apology to Dr. Ford for labeling her allegations a' smear job.' Let me repeat that, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell owes an apology to Dr. Ford for labeling her allegations a' smear job' and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should apologize to her immediately, it is galling -- galling for the Republican leader who has done more than maybe anyone else to politicize the Supreme Court nomination process, to make these trumped up, hyperbolic charges.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We feel that the nominee is not apolitical enough, not seasoned enough, not independent enough and has not been forthcoming enough.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
President Trump's decision to step in at the last moment and hide 100,000 pages of Judge Kavanaugh's records from the American public is not only unprecedented in the history of Supreme Court nominations, it has all the makings of a cover-up.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It is only fitting that his name should adorn a physical institution of the Senate, particularly one that housed the Armed Services Committee.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
He was unafraid to take on his party, he could put the temper in temperament, He was a brave and honest man.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I’ll ask him all about these documents and what he intends to do about it, he can’t duck then.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Last week, if you read The Washington Post, a paper that you have a great deal of respect for, there was story how Democrats throughout the country are talking about health care very successfully.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I'll ask him all about these documents and about what he intends to do about This FOIA request. He can't duck -- he can't duck This FOIA request. This FOIA request's his documents, he should say -- he should have said already he wants them released if he is an open, fair, wonderful man Supreme Court justice that he's trying to portray himself to be.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Every day, Republican obstruction of Kavanaugh's record gets worse and worse, not only is a massively conflicted Republican lawyer, who previously worked for Judge Judge Kavanaugh, cherry-picking what documents Senate Judiciary Committee can see, he is now telling the Committee what the rest of the Senate and the American public can see -- and Republicans are playing along.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Understanding the nature of his involvement in those actions is absolutely critical to evaluating the type of justice he would be on the bench, if Republicans continue to stonewall, the American people will wonder what they are hiding.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
That President Trump would even consider handing over a former U.S. ambassador to Hopefully President Putin and That President Trump cronies for interrogation is bewildering.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
President Trump tried to squirm away from what he said yesterday, it’s twenty-four hours too late, and in the wrong place.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We need hearings as soon as possible to assess what President Trump might have committed to President Putin in secret, president Trump's public statements were alarming enough.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
For the president of the United States to side with President Putin against American law enforcement, American defense officials, and American intelligence agencies is thoughtless, dangerous, and weak.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
For the president of United States to side with President Putin against American law enforcement, American defense officials, and American intelligence agencies is thoughtless, dangerous, and weak.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
First, I don't believe the meeting should take place but if it is going to happen, President Trump must press Putin hard on the issue of election interference. He can't simply raise it, accept Putin's denial and then let him off the hook, second, the President must demand that the 12 Russians named in the indictment be sent to the U.S. to stand trial. And third, President Trump should not agree to weaken, lift, or curtail any of the sanctions on Russia.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I will oppose this nominee with everything that I've got.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I believe if we can prove to the American people, which I believe is truly the case, that this nominee will lead to a court that repeals women's reproductive freedom, repeals ACA with its protections for pre-existing conditions, we will get a majority of the Senate to vote for it.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Anything but that would be the absolute height of hypocrisy.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I understand those who are outraged at the hypocrisy of this President when he complains about bullying, harassment and nastiness when it's used against him or his allies and he uses it as a regular tool every day, but the President's tactics and behavior should never be emulated. It should be repudiated by organized, well-informed and passionate advocacy.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
To opponents of the President's policies, the best way to limit what he can do to show that America is not as coarse, as mean, as hypocritical as his behavior suggests, the best solution is to win elections, that is a far more productive way to channel the legitimate frustrations with the President's policies than harassing members of his administration.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
They should not let President Trump pressure them into reducing American security, both economic and defense, they should not let President Trump pressure them into allowing ZTE to spy on every one of us which they could well do.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The summit was more show than substance, what the Texans call' all cattle, no hat,' in past agreements with North Korea, the United States won far stronger language on denuclearization, and we won specific measures to ensure that North Korea was taking steps in that direction.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It's imperative that we actually get action here, not just photo ops, if United States is unable to win concrete, lasting concessions from North Korea, the meeting alone will be a victory for Kim Jong Un and a defeat for Singapore Tuesday , Trump.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The president's support for inviting Russia back into the G-7, just after they meddled in the election to support his campaign, will leave millions of Americans with serious questions and suspicions.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We need the president to be able to distinguish between our allies and adversaries, and to treat each accordingly.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Now that the meeting will proceed as planned, we want to make sure that the president's desire for a deal with North Korea doesn't saddle the United States, Japan and (South) Korea with a bad deal.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
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.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
In his honor, we will continue to pressure the Pentagon to recognize the Frank E. Evans on the Vietnam Memorial.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I noticed recently where Democrats, Nancy Pelosi as an example, are trying to defend MS-13 gang members, i called them animals the other day and I was met with rebuke. They said ‘they’re people.’.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
They’re not people, these are animals and we have to be very, very tough.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
For every Republican at the table, there should be the Democratic counterpart, if Devin Nunes is there,( top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee Adam) Schiff should be there. If Sen.( Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer) Grassley is there, Sen.( Dianne) Feinstein should be there. It should be bipartisan.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
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 and know-how in such things as required joint ventures.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
There are not reports that Iran has violated the agreement, you’re making it harder to go after Hezbollah. You’re making it harder to go after Iranian activities that are really dangerous. And you’re probably making it harder to come to a North Korea deal.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Maybe he'll back off - let's hope. He's done that before too.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I worry that this president, in his eagerness to strike a deal and get the acclaim and a photo op, will strike a quick one and a bad one, not a strong one, not a lasting one.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It is because I believe Iran will not change, and under this agreement it will be able to achieve its dual goals of eliminating sanctions while ultimately retaining its nuclear and non-nuclear power, better to keep U.S. sanctions in place, strengthen them, enforce secondary sanctions on other nations, and pursue the hard-trodden path of diplomacy once more, difficult as it may be.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
After each incident, The FAA says they're going to study that particular incident, we want them to be proactive and not look at safety after a tragedy occurs. We don't want them to look at a particular instance of safety, maintenance, but at all of them.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell got a good mentor here.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The legislation is long overdue based on, you know, a bunch of different facts, ultimately, it is the right thing to do. Freedom. If smoking marijuana doesn't hurt anybody else, why shouldn't we allow people to do it and not make it criminal.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Ultimately, it’s the right thing to do. Freedom. If smoking marijuana doesn’t hurt anybody else, why shouldn’t we allow people to do it and not make it criminal?
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We are very close to signing off on legislation that will move by the end of the week, not everyone is going to be happy.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Why ? Because it is n’t 100 percent of what the president wants on immigration ? That’s not how our democracy works – you don’t get 100 percent of what you want in a democracy, maybe in a dictatorship.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Why? Because it isn’t 100 percent of what the president wants on immigration? That’s not how our democracy works – you don’t get 100% of what you want in a democracy, maybe in a dictatorship.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The most important thing Congress can do right now is to ensure that Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation continues uninterrupted and unimpeded.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The Outnumbered panel will vote today to reopen the government, in a few hours, the government will reopen.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We will vote today to reopen the government, in a few hours, the government will reopen.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
On Friday in 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.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Republican leadership can't get The President on board with anything, the breakdown of compromise is poisoning this Congress and it all comes down to President Trump.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
At this point, I ’m not supporting any CR that does n’t include a fix. Now what I am telling you is, if that fix includes a wall, I ’m ready.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Does Speaker (John) Boehner need to engage in something like the ancient practice of sacrifice, this time to the right-wing gods? Do we have to sacrifice the economy and help for millions of middle class people?
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We’d be glad to do comprehensive immigration reform, like the Senate bill from 2013, that has more of what both sides want but that will take time, there is an immediate need to protect the DACA recipients, so the deal will be more narrow than that.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The problem thus far has been President Trump’s insistence on a completely ineffective and absurdly expensive border wall as a part of any deal on DACA.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We intend to be reasonable, but we don’t intend to abandon our priorities just as our Republican friends don’t want to abandon theirs. We have some leverage.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We’ll need new legislation to account for the Republicans’ latest attempt to undermine our health care system.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Under this law, if Wyoming or Alabama said any person could carry a concealed gun, they could come to Times Square, Penn Station carrying that gun -- concealed, the chaos that would result would be utterly amazing.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
To lavish them (corporations) with huge tax breaks and ask the middle class to bear the cost—that’s about as backward as it gets.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We believe we ’ll get it in the omnibus( spending) bill because both House Republicans and Democrats want it, if DACA is in the bill,( President Trump) wo n’t veto it.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The bottom line is, the president listened to the arguments, we think we made a very reasonable and strong argument. And, to his credit, he went with the better argument.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Rather than writing a partisan bill that will benefit the wealthy and special interests, they should commit to working with Democrats, through regular order, to craft a bill in the light of day that puts the middle class and those struggling to make it first.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
When you lose to somebody who has a 40 percent popularity, you don’t blame other things -- Comey, Russia -- you blame yourself, so what did we do wrong? People didn’t know what we stood for, just that we were against Trump. And still believe that.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We know the ACA is not perfect. But we also know what you’ve proposed is much worse.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We have an opportunity to go back to the drawing board, we are willing to debate and compromise on health care but we have to be included.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Time is not the problem in the present health care bill, the problem is the substance. It slashes Medicaid, which has become something that helps middle class New Yorkers and millions of Americans.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
If I were them, I wouldn't want to go home and face the voters either.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The story coming out of the White House about why Mr. Comey was fired continues to change, and there is not god explanations for the change.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
To destroy them would be a violation of law, he should turn them over to Congress and to the investigators. If there are no tapes, he should apologize to both Jim Comey and the American people.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
The actions of the last week make all the more reason that he should not be attorney general.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Nothing less is at stake than the American people's faith in our criminal justice system and the integrity of the executive branch of our government.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
If the President continues this way, there is a chance we could take back the Senate.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We're happy to debate this wall in regular order down the road once he has a plan.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
In my view if the President stepped out of it, we could get a budget done Friday.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
We believe the Republican leaders should tell Donald Trump we can do this at a later time. I don't think it will pass.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I want to come up with an agreement, our Republican colleagues know that since they control, you know, the House, the Senate and the White House, that a shutdown would fall on their shoulders, and they don’t want it.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Making sure Assad knows that when he commits such despicable atrocities he will pay a price is the right thing to do.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
The truth is, each side can blame the other—we believe they’re more in the wrong, they believe we’re more in the wrong, the game of pointing fingers and they-started-it can go back and back and back to the very founding of the republic.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We can decide, today, to commit to solving this problem. Each side can stop pointing fingers. Each side can lay down their arms, each side can put aside the resentments built up after years of trench warfare on nominees--We can decide, today, to talk about a way out of this impasse instead of changing the rules.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It doesn’t have to be this way, the answer is not to change the rules, it’s to change the nominee.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
To my Republican friends who think that if Judge Neil Gorsuch fails to reach 60 votes, we ought to change the rules, I say if this nominee can not earn 60 votes, a bar met by each of President Obama's nominees and George Bush's last two nominees, the answer isn't to change the rules.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Each side didn't get their nominee, let's sit down and come together.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
He stated he was not separating children from their parents, but that's not been our experience.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
If the nominee cannot earn the support of 60 Senators, the answer is not to break precedent by fundamentally and permanently changing the rules and traditions of the Senate, the answer is to change the nominee.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
If he aims a proposal aimed at the middle class and the poor people, doesn't give breaks to the rich -- they're doing great, God bless them, I'm glad they're doing great; they don't need another tax break -- we could work with them, but I don't think they're headed in that direction, and they're going repeat the same mistake they made on Trumpcare with tax reform.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
If the nominee can't get 60 votes, you don't change the rules, you change the candidate.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
There’s been an almost seismic shift in the caucus [against Gorsuch].
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It is unseemly to be moving forward so fast on confirming a Supreme Court justice with a lifetime appointment while this big gray cloud of an FBI investigation hangs over the presidency, you can bet if the shoe were on the other foot and a Democratic president was under investigation by the FBI the Republicans would be howling at the moon about filling a Supreme Court seat in such circumstances. Elizabeth Warren added on Twitter :.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Judge Gorsuch looks like he's playing dodgeball with the Senate Judiciary Committee, he has bent over backwards to avoid revealing anything, anything at all about his judicial philosophy or the legal issues that concern the American people.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
We think this bill is so bad, there is no way to make it better, particularly compared to the good job that ACA is doing.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I have some real doubts about He has been a judge who has favored the wealthy interests over the middle class, judge Gorsuch has repeatedly sided with corporations over working people, demonstrated a hostility toward women’s rights, and most troubling, hewed to an ideological approach to jurisprudence that makes me skeptical that he can be a strong, independent Justice on the Court.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Judge Gorsuch has repeatedly sided with corporations over working people, demonstrated a hostility toward women’s rights, and most troubling, hewed to an ideological approach to jurisprudence that makes me skeptical that he can be a strong, independent Justice on the Court.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I welcome the president’s blueprint for next year’s budget, which turns the page from the last eight years, we are determined to work with the administration to shrink the size of government, grow our economy, secure our borders, and ensure our troops have the tools necessary to complete their missions. I look forward to reviewing this with the Appropriations Committee and our entire conference.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Thousands of Americans will die if this legislation is passed and we have to do everything that we can to see that is defeated. that's because people realize by losing it they are going to be in real trouble.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
That's because people realize by losing it they are going to be in real trouble.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
We hope our Republican colleagues will work with us in a bipartisan way so that the appropriations process meets the needs of the American people, if Republicans insist on inserting poison pill riders such as defunding Planned Parenthood, building a border wall, or starting a deportation force, they will be shutting down the government and delivering a severe blow to our economy.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The Senate and American people deserve to know that these cabinet nominees have a plan to avoid any conflicts of interest, that they’re working on behalf of the American people and not their own bottom line, and that they plan to fully comply with the law, senate Republicans should heed the advice of this independent office and stop trying to jam through unvetted nominees.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
If Republicans think Betsy DeVos can quickly jam through a whole slate of nominees without a fair hearing process, Betsy DeVos’re sorely mistaken.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
If Republicans think they can quickly jam through a whole slate of nominees without a fair hearing process, they’re sorely mistaken.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
For positions of such influence in our government, it’s the responsibility of The Senate to guarantee that we have all the information we need on each nominee in a timely fashion, the slate of nominations selected by President-elect Trump has made this process, standard for nominees of presidents of both parties, immensely difficult.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
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.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
ObamaCare, he won't be able to do it, forget about repealing or modifying Dodd-Frank.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Many of those statements, they're old, but they're still troubling, there are lots of questions that have to be asked.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
First time says congratulations, let's work together, second time we talked a little about infrastructure.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I think blue-collar America voted for Donald Trump more on Democratic issues than on Republican issues.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
He is going to meet with the NRA ... What's he going to come out saying? 'Oh the NRA and I agreed we shouldn't have terrorists have guns,' but doing nothing about it.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If the Saudi government was complicit in terrorism, and a trial so determines, it would be a real deterrent to other governments not to be complicit in terrorism.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As someone who lives in New York who has experienced the horrors of terrorism close up and personal, the idea of having someone on the Supreme Court who understands those issues, as well as their horrible human effect, is very comforting.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our primary is on the merits, people are discussing issues, not calling names at each other.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It’s not just a risky strategy, it's the wrong strategy and it's going to fail.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The fact that he abandoned the bill so quickly because a bunch of right-wing commentators came out against it will not serve him well in his presidential campaign primary or general if he ever got there.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
My colleagues -- and many of them have called me in the last few days -- everyone believes this is a vote of conscience. They respect my vote of conscience and I'll respect theirs, whichever way they come out.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I told the president the day before and I don't think he leaked it, but maybe somebody in the White House did, maybe somebody else did. I'm not pointing fingers.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There are some who believe that I can force my colleagues to vote my way, while I will certainly share my view and try to persuade them that the vote to disapprove is the right one, in my experience with matters of conscience and great consequence like this, each member ultimately comes to their own conclusion.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
While I will certainly share my view and try to persuade them that the vote to disapprove is the right one, in my experience with matters of conscience and great consequence like this, each member ultimately comes to their own conclusion.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Better to keep U.S. sanctions in place, strengthen them, enforce secondary sanctions on other nations, and pursue the hard-trodden path of diplomacy once more, difficult as it may be.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
While inspectors would likely be able to detect radioactive isotopes at a site after 24 days, that delay would enable Iran to escape detection of any illicit building and improving of possible military dimensions( PMD) - the tools that go into building a bomb but don't emit radioactivity.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
These shootings have got to stop. I don't know how else to say it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Where's Chuck? Senator hides from Post's Iran questions.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Where’s Chuck? Senator hides from Post’s Iran questions.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's a serious issue and I'm studying it carefully, giving it what it deserves.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Experts have made clear that Positive Train Control could have prevented the tragedy in Philadelphia, it is simply a fact that insufficient funding for Amtrak has delayed the installation of PTC, and to deny a connection between the accident and underfunding Amtrak is to deny reality.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We’re facing a situation where anyone—a felon, a terrorist—can open a gun factory in their garage and the weapons they make will be undetectable. It’s stomach-churning.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We made that clear to the Chairman of the Rules Committee and we hope we can work something out to get that done.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Republicans should be warned right here, right now, Democrats are not going to help you pass appropriations bills that lock in senseless, automatically triggered cuts that hurt the middle class, instead, we'll be eager to work with our Republican colleagues to prevent those cuts from taking effect and restoring both defense spending and vital middle class funding in an even way; $1 for defense, $1 for the middle class.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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