It’s not just an idea whose time has come; it’s long overdue, we have all seen the agony of a young person arrested with a small amount of marijuana in his or her pocket. And because of the historical over-criminalization of marijuana, they have a very severe criminal record they have to live with their whole lives.

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Ultimately, it’s the right thing to do. Freedom. If smoking marijuana doesn’t hurt anybody else, why shouldn’t we allow people to do it and not make it criminal?

Mr. Bolton’s tendency to try to solve every geopolitical problem with the American military first is a troubling one, i hope he will temper his instinct to commit the men and women of our armed forces to conflicts around the globe, when we need to be focused on building the middle class here at home.

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We are very close to signing off on legislation that will move by the end of the week, not everyone is going to be happy.

She had deep convictions – on both issues important to the people of Rochester, and for the integrity and honesty of the political system, throughout her entire career, Louiseworkedwithpeoplefrom so many different philosophies and backgrounds, because she wassuch a genuinehuman spirit.The ferocity of her advocacy was matched only by the depth of her compassion and humanity.

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Why ? Because it is n’t 100 percent of what the president wants on immigration ? That’s not how our democracy works – you don’t get 100 percent of what you want in a democracy, maybe in a dictatorship.

Why? Because it isn’t 100 percent of what the president wants on immigration? That’s not how our democracy works – you don’t get 100% of what you want in a democracy, maybe in a dictatorship.

The most important thing Congress can do right now is to ensure that Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation continues uninterrupted and unimpeded.

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The Outnumbered panel will vote today to reopen the government, in a few hours, the government will reopen.

Today we enter the third day of the Trump shutdown. by Chuck Schumer

Today we enter the third day of the Trump shutdown.

We will vote today to reopen the government, in a few hours, the... by Chuck Schumer

We will vote today to reopen the government, in a few hours, the government will reopen.

On Friday in the Oval Office, I made what I thought was a very generous offer to the president, the most generous offer yet, the president must take yes for an answer. Until he does, it’s the Trump Shutdown.

We have yet to reach an agreement on a path forward. by Chuck Schumer

We have yet to reach an agreement on a path forward.

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Republican leadership can't get its tumultuous president on board with anything, the breakdown of compromise is poisoning this Congress and it all comes down to President Trump.

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Republican leadership can't get The President on board with anything, the breakdown of compromise is poisoning this Congress and it all comes down to President Trump.

At this point, I ’m not supporting any CR that does n’t include a fix. Now what I am telling you is, if that fix includes a wall, I ’m ready.

We can’t keep kicking the can down the road, in another month, we’ll be right back here, at this moment, with the same web of problems at our feet, in no better position to solve them.

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Does Speaker (John) Boehner need to engage in something like the ancient practice of sacrifice, this time to the right-wing gods? Do we have to sacrifice the economy and help for millions of middle class people?

It must go in a must-pass bill and the only must-pass bill that we see coming down the road between now and March 5 is this [stopgap measure]. So we continue to believe, insist, that it must be in this bill.

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We’d be glad to do comprehensive immigration reform, like the Senate bill from 2013, that has more of what both sides want but that will take time, there is an immediate need to protect the DACA recipients, so the deal will be more narrow than that.

The problem thus far has been President Trump’s insistence on a completely ineffective and absurdly expensive border wall as a part of any deal on DACA.