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Shame falls on a party that would censure persons of conscience, who seek truth in the face of vitriol. Honor attaches to Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for seeking truth even when doing so comes at great personal cost.
On a day for the history books, @TheAmandaGorman delivered a poem that more than met the moment. Young people like her are proof that "there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it; if only we're brave enough to be it."
Just had to go through a metal detector before entering the House floor. Some colleagues are frustrated (guess which ones) by this requirement. Now they know how HS students in my district feel. Suck it up buttercups. Y’all brought this on yourselves.
Who’s in the mood to shatter the glass ceiling and elect @KamalaHarris — an incredible candidate, leader, and governing partner — as the first ever #MadamVicePresident in November?
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@maddow When you guys show how many Democrat and how many Republican senators there are right now, are you including the independent senators anywhere?
Make no mistake: if you are out of work, if your business is closed, if your child’s school is shut down, if you are seeing layoffs in your community, Donald Trump decided today that none of that matters to him.
Stacey Abrams: “We're watching the president ... and his cronies cheat, lie, and steal about the vote. Our responsibility is to mitigate that harm and to remind people that our power of the presence of our vote overwhelms any of their intentions." https://t.co/RUXpMGAPzk
Clinton: Senate Dems must do every single possible thing to stop McConnell from erecting a massive "monument" to hypocrisy and perpetuating a "travesty" upon the court.