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Thanks to today's action, the published Title IX regulations faithfully reflect court orders and congressional intent — reducing confusion for parents, students, and educational institutions. … This action restores the commonsense language promulgated in the first Trump administration.

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Yeah, of course it's a step forward. … Scott Bessent had set this up weeks before the actual visit of President Xi occurred. … We all know that nothing terribly meaningful came out of this conversation. And look, Xi himself is waiting for 37 days when he will now face a president of the United States who has been rebuked by his own people. … But like I said, let's not be too harsh. Anytime we're talking to the Chinese and stopping misunderstandings and making incremental progress on things like AI or not starting another trade war, you know, it's a valuable couple of days.

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The president's threat to annihilate Iran is nonsensical. You know, he's been trying that for six months now. … The Iranians have for six months sustained the very worst that we and the Israelis can throw at them. … Look, the Iranians now, in some sense, control what happens on Election Day. … If the Iranian regime wants to make sure that Mike Lawler loses in New York-17, or that Ashley Hinson is not a senator in the Midwest, they will call their friends the Houthis and say, fire five missiles at five ships … oil goes up to $120 a barrel. Diesel, already at record highs, goes to $8 a gallon. … So do you think they're giving up that position before the election? Of course they're not.

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Every taxpayer, no matter your party, should be outraged by this. Your money is being used to fund campaign ads for Trump.

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Senate Republicans had chance after chance to stop Trump's illegal seizure of taxpayer money. Time after time, they pledged allegiance to Trump instead of to citizens. And he'll keep rolling them if the Senate doesn't change hands.

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[Trump and Russ Vought are] once again trying to steal more money promised to communities across the country.

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That is the definition of political interference in FDA decision-making. … That's not a commitment.

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I just left a classified briefing on the defense budget leaving me shocked and deeply alarmed. … President Trump should be saying to Xi, 'Stop it, knock it off.'

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[Letter to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles from the top Democratic appropriators, demanding the ad be taken off the air immediately:] This is the sort of government propaganda one might expect in North Korea, not the United States of America.

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[Blumenthal called the invitation] absolutely disgraceful, despicable. … I'm hoping for tougher action and expecting it because he signed the bill and supported it.

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What China is doing in Iran should be stopped. The president should not be feting and praising Xi. He should be telling him, 'Knock it off!'

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I also feel your anger, and we should share that anger, and it is anger that should be directed at the administration. But it also ought to be directed at Congress. … There was hope that (ICE) would abandon the physical brutality and inhumanity of its tactics on the streets, there was hope that there would be accountability.

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This is an extraordinarily dangerous proposal. The White House is playing politics with critical research into devastating illnesses like cancer, Alzheimer's, and heart disease. Funding for life-saving biomedical research should never – ever – be subject to political litmus tests. … It must not be allowed to move forward.

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If he were here today, he would be jubilant about our bill's passage — and already thinking about the next one. … Putin is a thug who understands only force and strength, which is what we must show clearly.

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Even changes that may appear modest from a purely military standpoint can have outsized effects on our bilateral relationships, particularly with Baltic Allies, as Russia continues to intensify its hybrid actions along NATO’s eastern flank. … U.S. Ambassadors and Chiefs of Mission in affected countries have been excluded from consultations. … What we are requesting is not a departure from precedent — it is a return to longstanding practice. [We urge you to ensure] the Department of State is fully and meaningfully engaged from this point forward.

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To Vladimir Putin — we have your number. And to Ukraine — you are not alone. … China and India, you better clean up your act, buy your oil and gas somewhere else.

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They are seeking to ram a bill through Congress based upon not the merits of the bill, but the threat that they will spend even more money.

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We should not leave for November without passing AI legislation.

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Do you think firing the president's political opponents is more important than retaining the decades of experience and expertise monitoring intelligence threats from Iran?

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What this bill does at its core is to protect a system of exploitation. … This bill protects the billions of dollars that coaches and sports industry executives are making over the suppression of compensation for some of the most highly valued athletes in the world.

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This was a Russian party organized and paid for by someone in Vladimir Putin's inner circle. … Never before has a foreign enemy of the United States paid for the family wedding of the president. [It is] naked corruption in plain view.

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Donald Trump is sacrificing entire species for short-term corporate and political gain. The consequences of these reckless and callous rollbacks cannot be fixed in the next election cycle.

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This is extraordinary… it's outrageous. It's an outrageous commentary. I don't believe he even knows or understands what he's speaking about. I really don't think he understands or he gets it.

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[If I] chair the Appropriations Committee, we will increase funds. And if we've got that same case in the Senate, then we've got the House and the Senate in sync to try to move forward.

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It was an opportunity for us to hear directly from people living through the conflict, a chance for us as appropriators to see how U.S. tax dollars, taxpayer dollars, are being used.

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These funds were provided for lifesaving medical research, not as extra money for the Department of Defense. It is no secret that the Department of Defense is facing enormous financial pressure because of President Trump’s war of choice with Iran. But the Trump administration cannot make American patients, families, and scientists pay the price.

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Circumventing Congress to divert money intended to help Americans who are exposed to HIV, influenza, tuberculosis, and other deadly diseases—and directing those funds to the Department of Defense—is beyond the pale. DoD already has programs, funded by Congress, to research and develop medical countermeasures to chemical, biological, and nuclear threats, and does not need NIH funding to do so. The administration must provide Congress with a full accounting of how this interagency agreement was developed and exactly how much taxpayer money it is trying to transfer to DoD.

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His actions are cruel and illegal, and we have sued and already secured multiple federal court orders to stop him. We will vigorously prosecute our litigation to ensure Connecticut families and providers may continue to live their lives and do their jobs free from cruel partisan meddling.

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This secretive attempt to siphon research funds away from NIH is outrageous. The interagency agreement needs to be terminated immediately.

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Taken together they present a clear picture of a fatally flawed process that cannot and will not protect American voters. Put plainly: this process will likely lead to chaos, confusion, and the inability of many Americans to have their vote counted.