The United States can not ignore the Kingdom's actions, and this bill sends a clear, bipartisan message to Saudi Arabia's leadership, this bipartisan legislation is a means toward forcing accountability and I hope it will come before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee floor for consideration.

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We're only going to be able to compete in the world if we continue to be innovative.

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New Hampshire is different than Massachusetts. We have - well, we're the Live Free or Die state. We are independent.

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Any Democratic statement of core beliefs about the importance of families must include all our families, gay and straight. Our party has a long tradition of leading the charge on important questions of justice.

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Let's create jobs by bringing the Shaheen-Portman bipartisan energy efficiency bill to the floor.

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I think we need to get the measurements that Congress has mandated from the White House on how we're going to determine progress in Afghanistan.

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We need to invest in a way that makes sure we've got the workforce we need in the future.

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Americans were outraged by Russia's interference in our presidential election, but a wider threat is Russia's doctrine of hybrid warfare, which includes cybersabotage of critical American infrastructure from nuclear plants to electrical grids.

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If a future U.S. president were to refuse to defend an ally under attack, NATO would lose all credibility.

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NATO is indispensable to America's national security.

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The U.S.-E.U. partnership is indispensable to ensuring a Europe whole, free, and at peace.

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I think we need to continue to engage with our allies and with the world situation both on trade. I'm concerned that by pulling out of TPP, while we all want fair and competitive trade, the fact is what we have done is left the playing field to the Chinese to engage with those partners.

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We need to strike better trade deals, but we need to do it in a way that ensures that we are at the table on these deals.

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One of the things we need to do with North Korea, which is a rogue nation, is to get the international community in support of further sanctions, of keeping pressure on the North Korean regime.

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Like many Americans, I am still haunted by images from the last days of the United States' withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975. Newscasts showed South Vietnamese desperately trying to scale the walls of our embassy in Saigon to board the last helicopter flights out of the country. The fear in their eyes was chilling.

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By protecting our Afghan friends from reprisals and welcoming them into our American family, we can assert that the United States is still a great and good country - and that we do not abandon those who risked their lives to serve with us.

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The United States does not accept foreign meddling in our elections, and we shouldn't have an ambassador attempting to intrude in another country's political affairs.

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If Ambassador Grenell is unwilling to refrain from political statements, he should be recalled immediately.

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When I got involved in politics and started running, there were questions about whether a woman could take care of her kids and serve in office. And that was never an issue when I ran.

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When I had a group of undergraduates in the room, I would say to them, 'How many of you want to run for office someday?' And almost every male hand in the room would go up. And very few of the young women.

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