It is, however, irresponsible to take Chair Waters’ remarks out of context to just hold a ‘gotcha,’ partisan vote, if ‘confrontation’ is subject to sanction, then we’re going to have a lot of people on your side who we believe are confrontational every day.

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What I concluded is there is no crisis at the border. The issue ... will be whether there is a crisis of our constitutional adherence.

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Am I sure of that ? No. Why ? Because he's changed his mind.

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I don't expect that to be part of the negotiation.

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It's what I expect from people who think they are authoritarian leaders of our government -- and it starts with the President of the United States.

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Itis unbecoming of the president of the United States. But it is unfortunately a daily occurrence.

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No, I dont think its officially off, we -- I had not seen the speakers letter. What she suggests is a real security problem unless weve opened up the government.So -- and we havent gotten a reply from the president and his thoughts. So its -- its not officially off. No.

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Mr. Deripaska has been key to much of the malign activities Russia directs against the United States, and the Congress must protect the American people against foreign interference and corruption.

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Republicans have taken very strong action, which I applaud them for and I think they did the right thing, i think they're very concerned about their party being perceived as a Steve King party, frankly.

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The answer is yes.

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Given the now well-documented election fraud that took place in NC-09, Democrats would object to any attempt by Mr. Harris to be seated on January 3, in this instance, the integrity of our democratic process outweighs concerns about the seat being vacant at the start of the new Congress.

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If we don't, it's going to be very early on in our agenda next year.

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I think it's an interesting idea. I think members want to make sure that we can elect a speaker and elect a speaker that has broad support, and that's what their objective is, i think that objective is a good objective.

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Something to make it clear that we don't have our nominee going to the floor with a small marginal victory( in the caucus) but with something more substantial, in other words, something that's doable, but maybe not 218.

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President Trump’s characterization of his administration’s botched response to Hurricanes Irma and Maria as ‘incredibly successful’ and ‘one of the best jobs that’s ever been done’ is offensive to the families of the nearly 3,000 Americans who were killed and the countless more who suffered for months without power or running water, he ought to apologize, and Congress ought to investigate what went wrong with the Trump Administration’s response and identify steps to ensure it does not happen again.

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Surely we can rise above pandering to party and Putin to act on behalf of our freedom and our security.

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We’re not falling for this trap, to vote ‘present’ on this resolution reflects fear.

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We know that in vast numbers of cases, there is not proper representation.

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I think that's -- it's not appropriate.

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After ballooning deficits to over a trillion dollars a year for the next decade ... Republicans cannot be taken seriously when they claim we need to cut $15 billion from key programs in the name of fiscal responsibility.

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It’s a concern about having a Democrat in the final two, we are focused on that and trying to make sure that we have at least one, maybe two, that really we think are viable. In some areas, we have like five or six Democrats and two or three Republicans and that makes it challenging.

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