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They have a corporate responsibility, as every corporation does, to create safe products. … We do not need a moratorium. We do not need to jump in and hyperregulate this, because we'll lose the race to China. … We cannot lose the race to China … it has to be a balance.

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When President Trump defeated Secretary Clinton, you were bitterly disappointed, weren't you? … You didn't tell him, did you? … But you're unbiased. You have no personal feelings. You make me want to throw up in my mouth. … Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy?

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Iran made an offer recently to the president. It was not a serious offer. … We need to continue doing what we're doing. The sanctions, the blockade.

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I love Susan like a taco, but she's wrong. First, Congress didn't approve this stuff. … I'm glad that Russ Vought's doing it.

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I agree there's friction. … Anybody who thinks that we're going to get money for the Pentagon, which needs it, other than through reconciliation, needs to put down the bong.

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I don't think any public official, including President Trump or Kristi Noem or John Kennedy, should spend public money on private ads for themselves. … I also think that we ought to have a rule that no politician can have a building named after him while he's alive. I think that would settle a lot of this controversy. We have that rule in Louisiana. It works pretty well.

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I would like to see him give a nationwide address. Or let Rubio and General Caine do it and explain why we went into Iran, why we're winning, and how we're going to get out.

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Is the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine lethal? … So you disagree with the president on that. … Kennedy gave me guarantees, and he did not keep them. … If the president asks you to do something that goes against those guarantees you give us today, what will you do?

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People are confused about the war and upset about the cost of living. [Kennedy, who voted against the resolution, called for President Trump to give a prime-time address explaining his strategy for the war.]

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President Xi is one of the best liars I've ever seen. He learned to lie before he learned to talk. I don't believe the president will fall for it. … China if you turn the other cheek they'd stab you in the neck.

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I'm a little disappointed that my Democratic colleagues left.

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The president's point is that there has been a lot of fake news, there has been a lot of, he's been treated very unfairly. But, we'll see how that shakes out. There has been a lawsuit filed. We'll see how it shakes out. … I've been greatly frustrated that he's gotten such unfair treatment in the press. And some of those outlets have been pretty brutal to him and they have said things that are blatantly untrue. They do it about me as well.

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I think you have to treat everybody the same in terms of their access to government. … I agree with the diagnosis. I don't agree with the cure. [Kennedy added that he did not agree with cancel culture.]

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Having measles is not a kind of victimless kind of experience. It's a little bit like drunk driving. … The president should be saying, "Be vaccinated. It is safe and effective."

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I don't know why he did it. I don't know what the background is. … I don't think we've seen a president that's been more open to the press. … You go to a bill signing with President Trump, and the first thing he does before he even signs the bill is he brings in the press, and everybody gets to not only take pictures but ask questions.

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It's absolutely inflationary. If Joe Biden had proposed that, conservatives would have been all against it. … [I]f the government borrows money, it's going to drive up how much somebody pays for their mortgage, for their car note, perhaps for their credit card.

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Repaying the funds does make a difference. Anytime someone gives a $250,000 gift and they have strong ties to the Kremlin, that's- that's wrong. … [W]ith that proximity to power, being the president's son, you've got to give faith to the American people that Washington is not a swamp.

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No, I'm not going to support that right now. [Kennedy said he prefers] a light touch system of rules.

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AI companies have a serious responsibility to earn the trust of the communities they invest in and to be good neighbors. The Ratepayer Protection Act guarantees hardworking American families won't foot the bill for the buildout of AI infrastructure — or see their energy costs rise to pay for it.

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I think it is wrong to have a trade war with Canada. It is not in the interest of our country to have a trade war with Canada.

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For too long, Putin has bankrolled this devastating war with money and resources from countries willing to look the other way, and today, that ends. … [The bill] gives the Administration every tool in the toolbox to help bring this war to a just end.

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The House has done its work. It's time for our members to go home to their districts and make their case to the American people.

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It's ridiculous to suggest that canceling Thursday's votes was meant to avoid the vote on impeaching Hegseth.

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It's a publicity stunt by someone who wants attention. … Secretary Hegseth has done an extraordinary job. … It will immediately be tabled, of course. But we probably won't do that today. … It's time for our members to go home to their districts and make the case to the American people.

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If the Senate works together and moves some of these important pieces of legislation, I will bring the House back on 48-hours' notice.

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That is going to be a terrible legacy for this administration.

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[That leaves] too much wiggle room. … I'm not sure that you reach people who are vaccine-hesitant by feeding into their own truths. The way to dispel confusion is not to sell more confusion.

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It makes sure that the ratepayers are protected as you're building out AI infrastructure.

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We have four people in Pennsylvania reportedly dead. … Misinformation and misguided policies are leaving children and adults unprotected.

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They can self-police, they can self regulate. They don't need the government to tell them to slow it down.