This impeachment process continues to be hopelessly partisan. I have been hearing from my constituents on both sides of this matter for months, and the escalation of calls this past week just shows me how divided our country really is right now, i have some serious concerns with the way the closed-door depositions were run, and am skeptical that we will have a process that is open, transparent and fair. Without support from Senate Republicans, going down this path is a mistake. Today's vote is both unnecessary, and widely misrepresented in the media and by Republicans as a vote on impeachment.

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The New York Federal Reserve is a tool of the big banks.

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The banks run the place.

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I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake.

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[People] don't like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives.

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I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.

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It appears to me that no one has learned a thing; that Wall Street is still operating as if 2008 never happened.

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The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.

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The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture.

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I think we are starting to get some information that will allow us to get to the bottom of this, and I hope we continue to work on this until we get to the bottom of it.

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[Rural people] have a different lifestyle, and they don't want to change it. They're happy with the way things are. It's causing the party political problems.

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Republicans have spent a lot of money redistricting and everything, getting control of these governorships and statehouses.

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What's happened is the Republicans have been smart.

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There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get it.

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I always run ahead of the ticket [compared to Democratic presidential candidates]. But this time there were a lot of people that just voted party line, a lot more than usual.

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You know what the economics are like in Red Lake County. There's no way a family can pay $15,000, $20,000 a year for health insurance and make it work. You just can't do it. It's got to change.

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When it [NAFTA] was sold, we were supposed to get two or three times more exports to Canada or Mexico than they exported to us. It's been the exact opposite.

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We [Democrats] have become a party of assembling all these different groups, the women's caucus and the black caucus and the Hispanic caucus and the lesbian-gay-transgender caucus and so forth, and that doesn't relate to people out in rural America.

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[Rural voters] have a different view of the world than people do in these urban centers.

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Some of the people in my caucus, some of the people in the state party in Minnesota have basically said, "We don't want to deal with these guys because they're too conservative," or "We don't agree with them on social issues."

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You can't have a majority party in Minnesota or throughout the country without [support from] the people in these [rural] districts. Given the position [the Democratic Party] has taken, it's very hard to see how you can do that.

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