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You caused my brother and a lot of other senators a lot of stress, and that makes me sick. You should be ashamed of yourself. … It's also a damn shame that you weaponized our legal system to do this. To go after a political opponent and his allies, including Lindsey, what a disgrace to our justice system and the Constitution that you would stoop this low. Shame on you!

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We will extend what we call the 'Busan Agreement' — the economic détente between the two countries that was scheduled to end on Nov. 10 — that is going to be extended until Jan. 10. … There are some deliverables that have not been perfect on the Chinese side, so we also want to see, now that we've sat down and told them our expectations, if over the coming months they can be more fulsome in enacting the agreement.

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We're examining that, whether it's feasible in terms of overall refining capacity [and whether a full or partial ban would work].

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I wish Lindsey were here to celebrate this historic day. I know he would be so proud.

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Canceling yet another day of votes is unacceptable. … We still have work to do.

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I think it's a good idea.

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That is in process right now. I'm not ready to discuss it at present, but at Treasury, we've been working on it for quite a while. … I think putting more money in the American people's pocket should be an objective for everyone, and I believe there are ways to do it that would not affect the deficit. … If it becomes clear that we need congressional authority, I will meet with [House Speaker Mike Johnson], and I look forward to it.

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When you can do sanctions on a country, that's significant. But what's particularly significant are secondary sanctions on countries that are actually buying oil or financing the regime in Moscow. … [Asked whether he was confident Trump would sign it:] Absolutely.

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If laughing at Ground Zero while names are being read during the 25th anniversary of 9/11 is your thing, perhaps public service isn’t your calling.

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I have serious concerns with this $5,000-check proposal. We are already more than $40 trillion in debt, and I cannot support another massive spending package without a clear way to pay for it. Tying government checks to the outcome of an election starts to sound like pay-to-play politics. Republicans should earn the support of the American people through good policy, not by promising another round of checks from Washington. … Show me how this is paid for without adding to the debt. Until then, I cannot support it.

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This midterm, we face the most dangerous … radical … and frankly weird Democrat candidates in history.

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President Trump has turned this country around once before, and he's doing it again.

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As it turns out, Washington wasn't incapable of working for the American people. All we needed was a new president.

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Then you have Jon Ossoff in Georgia. He wants to let boys play in girls' sports.

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I had a German shepherd and there was a dachshund that used to antagonize her at the playground, and it kind of reminds me of that. This little yippy dog used to bark away, and for a long time, a 110-pound German shepherd was ignoring the dachshund and then one day she had enough. They were given the opportunity for a great trade deal and they didn't want it.

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Negligible. I would like someone to show me the statistical significance of the Canadian tariffs on U.S. prices. I'm happy to debate them.

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This is about the victims getting the evidence and documentation for themselves that the DOJ is denying them, and then also the AGs in different states should be able to pursue this, particularly New Mexico.

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You've got to sign on. There's no other option.

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We are going through an energy shock right now due to both the war in Ukraine — because, you know, Ukraine has decided that they want to blow up Russian energy assets and refined products, so that is creating upward price pressure on a global basis — and then the conflict in Iran.

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Schools rebranding race-based preferences as equitable, inclusive, or diversity-enhancing does not change their discriminatory nature.

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A significant amount of unrest on campuses has resulted from efforts by anti-Israel radicals to coerce institutions into divesting from and boycotting Israel.

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Under President Trump, this Administration is standing up for America's students by ensuring racial discrimination has no place in American education.

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I think that we are in a position now that calls for some significant actions taken by the Congress, and we ought to expand. Thirteen is a pretty good number. A baker's dozen would be a good number to have on the court.

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There was a branch of an Egyptian bank in Dubai that had funneled more than $1.8 billion to the regime, and we used a Patriot Act authority that we had not used before, and we are shutting them down.

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We know who you are. You know who you are, and we are probably going to announce a bank sanction this week, and we will announce one the week after.

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We are burying the head of the Iranian snake. The snake doesn’t know it’s dead yet — but it will stop wiggling when the sun goes down. After 47 years — it is over.

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We are going to economically asphyxiate this regime.

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Nothing is possible until the war is over.

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I would think that they are lashing out kinetically because they are losing economically.

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We're starting with the banks, and we're telling the banks it's not OK to have Iranian money and to aid the regime.