Michigan

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[Letter to Secretary Mullin, led with Padilla, Durbin and Schumer and signed by 34 senators:] The 2026 midterm elections are already underway. Your unsubstantiated allegations of noncitizen voter fraud, public recitation of unreliable data, and unwarranted conditioning of continued grant funding for state election security measures on compliance with politically motivated requests for voter data appear to be calculated efforts to undermine confidence in our elections and risks wrongly disenfranchising voters.

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Title IX was enacted to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex and to ensure equal access to educational opportunities. … Returning to the 2020 regulations restores longstanding protections for women and girls that the Biden-Harris administration attempted to dismantle and realigns Title IX policy with court precedents.

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ICE killed another man. His name is Mario David Coronado Juarez. Mario lived and worked in Michigan for 7 years as a construction worker, sending money home to his kids in Guatemala. ICE pursued him in an unmarked car, causing a fatal car crash. These killings have to stop.

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[Statement from Gov. Whitmer's office:] Given the circumstances of this incident, the Governor has directed the Michigan State Police to conduct an independent review of the law enforcement actions surrounding this situation in coordination with the Grand Rapids Police Department's investigation.

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[Letter to President Trump with Sen. Thom Tillis:] U.S. arms sales to Taiwan should never be subject to negotiation with China—especially not at a time when Chinese aggression against Taiwan has evolved from aircraft incursions into a persistent, multidomain campaign that looks more like preparation for war. … On the eve of President Xi's visit to Washington, this is why we urge you to immediately approve this arms sale package for Taiwan.

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If constantly the president is going to talk about this rivalry with China, he can't in the same breath hand them our most sophisticated chips.

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No traffic stop should end with a fatality. Something went wrong, and we need to know what and how. I have sent a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement demanding immediate answers about what happened and a transparent investigation into facts we don't yet know, so that we can prevent something like this from ever happening again. The purpose of federal law enforcement is to make our communities safer. We must make sure that is happening.

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Iran cannot have a nuke, but I've always said that we need to use every resource at our disposal to bring this war to an end quickly.

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The war in Iran needs to end to bring costs down — but Michigan families can't afford to wait. [In a campaign video filmed in a grocery store, Rogers called for suspending state and federal gas taxes of about 70 cents a gallon and for a temporary embargo on U.S. diesel exports until the war is over.]

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Mike Rogers is lying straight to our faces. After defending Donald Trump's illegal war in Iran for months as a 'win-win-win,' Mike Rogers is only flip-flopping now. … You've spent your entire campaign supporting the war in Iran. Liar, coward, fraud.

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[Chinese objections to US arms sales to Taiwan and to US security cooperation with allies in Asia should be] rejected out of hand. [Moolenaar, urging Trump to take a tough line at the summit and to tighten controls on Chinese access to American AI and allied semiconductor manufacturing technology, said China remained the United States’] foremost foreign adversary and greatest external threat.

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Despite asking for tens of billions of additional taxpayer dollars, you have so far failed to provide basic information on how this money has and will be spent. … Congress must have access to this information to carry out our oversight responsibilities. It is the bare minimum that any American would expect in balancing their own household budget.

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Americans are calling on ICE to deescalate its immigration enforcement tactics, and the Administration needs to nominate someone who will right the ship, provide transparency, and restore the accountability Americans expect from law enforcement. … Despite the public's urging, we now have an agency that has been engaging in increasingly questionable and escalatory behavior and refuses to be transparent and accountable to the American people.

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[The bill] … it's not enough in any way, shape or form.

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[The Ratepayer Protection Act] fails to meaningfully protect our communities.

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Even if you didn't vote for Abdul, you need to support up and down the ticket this November.

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My experience as Intel Chairman taught me the time to stop a crisis is yesterday.

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Threats of political violence are dangerous, unacceptable, and have no place in our democracy.

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We all suffer when violence and hate are normalized and allowed into our political discourse. We must expect more from our representatives, and we must do better for the American people.

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Political violence is a big problem. Rather than egging on, real leaders call it out.

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September 11th isn't something we deserved no matter what Abdul's buddies say. … You don't sympathize with terrorists. … A man attacks a school to kill children in the name of Hezbollah and Abdul's instinct was to excuse it. No, terror is terror. Evil is evil.

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It's sad. He doesn't really want to talk about any of the issues people are really facing. … If he thinks that the issue is a streamer in California, then he's got another thing coming.

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This is what has become the norm in our politics.

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Democracy is supposed to be the process by which we solve our problems peacefully. We can learn to disagree agreeably. And when you hear that kind of call to violence, it should be shuddering to all of us.

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… calling out Ford's growing reliance on Chinese companies, including CATL and Geely. … Ford should work with our nation's allies, not our adversaries.

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We hear rumors that Trump is planning to allow Chinese cars to be sold in the U.S., as part of a larger deal he's putting together. That would be a strategic mistake.

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We'll use every tool in our toolbox to ensure they know the truth about our elections. We'll follow the law. We'll protect the right to vote.

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The average Michigan family is paying $5,600 more. That's a tax on our groceries. That's a tax on our small businesses, on gas.

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Canada has had a 250 percent tariff on our farmers for things like milk and cream and poultry.

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The whole goal of the midterm convention is to get Republicans together and share the stories of what we’ve done through this Congress and the past two years.