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I think that we need an emergency response because we’re facing a crisis situation … we need the help from our national leaders because we’re in a state where the only action that our colleagues took in response to the mass shooting in Nashville was to expel the two youngest Black lawmakers and then to pass a law to protect gun manufacturers. – Justin Jones	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What happened was a travesty of democracy because they expelled the two youngest Black lawmakers, which is no coincidence from the Tennessee Legislature. – Justin Jones	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This harmful and unnecessary bill has nothing to do with ‘fairness’ in sports, and everything to do with lawmakers’ efforts to push trans young people to the sidelines in hopes of scoring political points. – Casey Pick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is appalling to see Kentucky lawmakers work so hastily on dangerous legislation that will only put young LGBTQ Kentuckians in harm’s way, in the last year, nearly half of LGBTQ youth in Kentucky seriously considered suicide – alarmingly, nearly 1 in 4 transgender and nonbinary youth in the state made a suicide attempt. Our leaders are pushing political wedge issues and sidestepping the real challenges like addressing the youth mental health crisis. – Troy Stevenson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We agree with the chief of the Capitol Police and the wide range of bipartisan lawmakers who have condemned this false depiction of the unprecedented, violent attack on our Constitution and the rule of law – which cost police officers their lives, we also agree with what Fox News’s own attorneys and executives have now repeatedly stressed in multiple courts of law: That Tucker Carlson is not credible. – White House	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Lawmakers should put an end to the wrangling over the debt limit and increase it with no strings attached so future generations can enjoy the same benefits. – Mark Zandi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For gun violence survivors, this is an incredibly painful milestone to mark, and it arrives earlier and earlier each year, but survivors are increasingly taking action, and demanding our lawmakers stand up to the corporate gun industry and take comprehensive steps to reduce the recent influx of mass shootings. – Liz Dunning	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When the January 6th Select Committee obtained access to US Capitol Police video footage, it was treated with great sensitivity given concerns about the security of lawmakers, staff, and the Capitol complex, access was limited to members and a small handful of investigators and senior staff, and the public use of any footage was coordinated in advance with Capitol Police. – Tim Mulvey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is a devastating and dangerous violation of the rights and privacy of transgender Utahns, their families, and their medical providers, claims of protecting our most vulnerable with these laws ring hollow when lawmakers have trans children’s greatest protectors – their parents, providers, and the youth themselves – pleading in front of them not to cut them off from their care. – Chase Strangio	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Many states naively or some other way went about legalizing sports betting without adequately estimating the costs on problem gambling resources, there is more that state lawmakers can do within the confines of commercial speech restrictions. – John Holden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There's no mistaking it now : Our medical industry and government authorities care more about ideology and profit than they do about the health and well-being of our kids, hopefully, the looming cascade of malpractice lawsuits will finally convince them to return to sanity as Europe is now doing. Lawmakers in Congress and the states also need to start getting involved. For the sake of America's families, it's time to put a stop to this horrific experimentation. – Terry Schilling	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
One of the key advantages is it helps create a stigma around surveillance, which is really important to encourage lawmakers to create meaningful rules, so the public can more intuitively resist really corrosive and dangerous kinds of surveillance. – Woodrow Hartzog	Found on CNN 1 year ago
California’s new ‘misinformation’ law is the result of an increasingly censorious mentality that has gripped many lawmakers in this country, that this shocking bill passed through the state legislature and was signed into law by Governor Newsom demonstrates that far too many Americans do not understand the First Amendment. – Jenin Younes	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I wish I could sit here and say I have complete faith in the system, I don’t have faith in the system, and that’s why I’m going to work with lawmakers to come up with a way that we have secure elections. – Kari Lake	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There are a tiny number of transgender high school students, and an even tinier number interested in playing sports, the Associated Press reached out to two dozen state lawmakers sponsoring such measures around the country and couldn't find a single example of an actual transgender high school student that inspired such a ban. For example, the Tennessee House Speaker, Cameron Sexton conceded there may not actually be transgender students now participating in middle and high school sports, and that the bill was a priority so the state could be seen taking a stand. – Sara Norman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We have seen a disturbing trend where state courts are increasingly willing to go behind closed doors and rewrite the rules of our elections, this is just about ensuring that elected lawmakers are writing election laws, that those laws are being honored and that courts are not exceeding their authority and acting as super lawmakers. – Jason Snead	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When Congress passed this legislation, frankly, we jumped for joy, this was so exciting because of the transformative difference this law would make for America's working families. CRITICS SLAM PRESIDENT BIDEN FOR ‘ CELEBRATING ’ SIGNING OF INFLATION REDUCTION ACT : ‘ SLAP IN THE FACE ’ President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law last month after it passed through Congress along party lines, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote in the Senate. The act, lawmakers said, was intended to combat climate change, address health care costs and raise taxes on large corporations. But midway into September, a new report indicated inflation rose more than expected in August, squeezing U.S. households even as the cost of gasoline fell and continued to create a political headache for the president. The Labor Department said Earlier Tuesday that the consumer price index – a broad measure of the price for everyday goods, including gasoline groceries, and rents – rose 8.3 % in August from a year ago. Prices climbed 0.1 % in the one-month period from July. President Joe Biden speaks before signing H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. ( AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Those figures were both higher than the 8.1 % headline figure and 0.1 % monthly decline forecast by Refinitiv economists, a worrisome sign for theFederal Reserveas it seeks to cool price gains and tame consumer demand with an aggressive interest rate hike campaign. Stock futures tanked on the surprisingly hot report, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 400 points. Earlier Earlier Tuesday, the president released a statement saying it. – Nancy Pelosi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Regardless of what Louisiana lawmakers claim, the law is having its intended effect, causing doctors to refuse to perform abortions even when they are medically necessary out of fear of losing their medical licenses or facing criminal charges. – Ben Crump	Found on CNN 2 years ago
She took that assignment, traveled the country, met with providers and Americans, and convened lawmakers, and worked to get this into the final bill. – Herbie Ziskend	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Delayed deliveries of Congressionally-approved sales to Taiwan are undermining Republican House lawmakers ability to deter an attack from China. This is incredibly concerning as China ramps up its belligerence towards Taiwan. – Michael McCaul	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The decision comes at an important time – as the Senate considers legislation that undermines the Second Amendment freedom. This decision unequivocally validates the position of the NRA and should put lawmakers on notice: no law should be passed that impinges this individual freedom, it also confronts a troubling problem with the Senate legislation – underscoring that these freedoms should not be left to ‘unguided’ discretion of state officials. Second Amendment freedoms belong to the people. – Wayne LaPierre	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I do know we've seen pretty much across the board, with very few exceptions, a real commitment of lawmakers to make it clear that the woman can not be prosecuted. – Katie Glenn	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's disappointing because residents are just scared, and they come to us because they are scared, and we offer help that makes them feel more confident, that they won’t get stabbed or injured or potentially killed, the fact [lawmakers] are taking that away, for whatever purpose they have in their minds, I find that really sad and unnecessary and morally wrong. – Brad Pedell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In California, a list is prepared of qualified people and lawmakers get a certain number of strikes, similar to jury strikes, so, the California system is very hard to game. – Michael Li	Found on CNN 2 years ago

I think that we need an emergency response because we’re facing a crisis situation … we need the help from our national leaders because we’re in a state where the only action that our colleagues took in response to the mass shooting in Nashville was to expel the two youngest Black lawmakers and then to pass a law to protect gun manufacturers.

– Justin Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What happened was a travesty of democracy because they expelled the two youngest Black lawmakers, which is no coincidence from the Tennessee Legislature.

– Justin Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This harmful and unnecessary bill has nothing to do with ‘fairness’ in sports, and everything to do with lawmakers’ efforts to push trans young people to the sidelines in hopes of scoring political points.

– Casey Pick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is appalling to see Kentucky lawmakers work so hastily on dangerous legislation that will only put young LGBTQ Kentuckians in harm’s way, in the last year, nearly half of LGBTQ youth in Kentucky seriously considered suicide – alarmingly, nearly 1 in 4 transgender and nonbinary youth in the state made a suicide attempt. Our leaders are pushing political wedge issues and sidestepping the real challenges like addressing the youth mental health crisis.

– Troy Stevenson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We agree with the chief of the Capitol Police and the wide range of bipartisan lawmakers who have condemned this false depiction of the unprecedented, violent attack on our Constitution and the rule of law – which cost police officers their lives, we also agree with what Fox News’s own attorneys and executives have now repeatedly stressed in multiple courts of law: That Tucker Carlson is not credible.

– White House

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Lawmakers should put an end to the wrangling over the debt limit and increase it with no strings attached so future generations can enjoy the same benefits.

– Mark Zandi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For gun violence survivors, this is an incredibly painful milestone to mark, and it arrives earlier and earlier each year, but survivors are increasingly taking action, and demanding our lawmakers stand up to the corporate gun industry and take comprehensive steps to reduce the recent influx of mass shootings.

– Liz Dunning

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When the January 6th Select Committee obtained access to US Capitol Police video footage, it was treated with great sensitivity given concerns about the security of lawmakers, staff, and the Capitol complex, access was limited to members and a small handful of investigators and senior staff, and the public use of any footage was coordinated in advance with Capitol Police.

– Tim Mulvey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a devastating and dangerous violation of the rights and privacy of transgender Utahns, their families, and their medical providers, claims of protecting our most vulnerable with these laws ring hollow when lawmakers have trans children’s greatest protectors – their parents, providers, and the youth themselves – pleading in front of them not to cut them off from their care.

– Chase Strangio

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Many states naively or some other way went about legalizing sports betting without adequately estimating the costs on problem gambling resources, there is more that state lawmakers can do within the confines of commercial speech restrictions.

– John Holden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's no mistaking it now : Our medical industry and government authorities care more about ideology and profit than they do about the health and well-being of our kids, hopefully, the looming cascade of malpractice lawsuits will finally convince them to return to sanity as Europe is now doing. Lawmakers in Congress and the states also need to start getting involved. For the sake of America's families, it's time to put a stop to this horrific experimentation.

– Terry Schilling

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

One of the key advantages is it helps create a stigma around surveillance, which is really important to encourage lawmakers to create meaningful rules, so the public can more intuitively resist really corrosive and dangerous kinds of surveillance.

– Woodrow Hartzog

Found on CNN
1 year ago

California’s new ‘misinformation’ law is the result of an increasingly censorious mentality that has gripped many lawmakers in this country, that this shocking bill passed through the state legislature and was signed into law by Governor Newsom demonstrates that far too many Americans do not understand the First Amendment.

– Jenin Younes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I wish I could sit here and say I have complete faith in the system, I don’t have faith in the system, and that’s why I’m going to work with lawmakers to come up with a way that we have secure elections.

– Kari Lake

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There are a tiny number of transgender high school students, and an even tinier number interested in playing sports, the Associated Press reached out to two dozen state lawmakers sponsoring such measures around the country and couldn't find a single example of an actual transgender high school student that inspired such a ban. For example, the Tennessee House Speaker, Cameron Sexton conceded there may not actually be transgender students now participating in middle and high school sports, and that the bill was a priority so the state could be seen taking a stand.

– Sara Norman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have seen a disturbing trend where state courts are increasingly willing to go behind closed doors and rewrite the rules of our elections, this is just about ensuring that elected lawmakers are writing election laws, that those laws are being honored and that courts are not exceeding their authority and acting as super lawmakers.

– Jason Snead

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When Congress passed this legislation, frankly, we jumped for joy, this was so exciting because of the transformative difference this law would make for America's working families. CRITICS SLAM PRESIDENT BIDEN FOR ‘ CELEBRATING ’ SIGNING OF INFLATION REDUCTION ACT : ‘ SLAP IN THE FACE ’ President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law last month after it passed through Congress along party lines, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote in the Senate. The act, lawmakers said, was intended to combat climate change, address health care costs and raise taxes on large corporations. But midway into September, a new report indicated inflation rose more than expected in August, squeezing U.S. households even as the cost of gasoline fell and continued to create a political headache for the president. The Labor Department said Earlier Tuesday that the consumer price index – a broad measure of the price for everyday goods, including gasoline groceries, and rents – rose 8.3 % in August from a year ago. Prices climbed 0.1 % in the one-month period from July. President Joe Biden speaks before signing H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. ( AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Those figures were both higher than the 8.1 % headline figure and 0.1 % monthly decline forecast by Refinitiv economists, a worrisome sign for theFederal Reserveas it seeks to cool price gains and tame consumer demand with an aggressive interest rate hike campaign. Stock futures tanked on the surprisingly hot report, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 400 points. Earlier Earlier Tuesday, the president released a statement saying it.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Regardless of what Louisiana lawmakers claim, the law is having its intended effect, causing doctors to refuse to perform abortions even when they are medically necessary out of fear of losing their medical licenses or facing criminal charges.

– Ben Crump

Found on CNN
2 years ago

She took that assignment, traveled the country, met with providers and Americans, and convened lawmakers, and worked to get this into the final bill.

– Herbie Ziskend

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Delayed deliveries of Congressionally-approved sales to Taiwan are undermining Republican House lawmakers ability to deter an attack from China. This is incredibly concerning as China ramps up its belligerence towards Taiwan.

– Michael McCaul

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The decision comes at an important time – as the Senate considers legislation that undermines the Second Amendment freedom. This decision unequivocally validates the position of the NRA and should put lawmakers on notice: no law should be passed that impinges this individual freedom, it also confronts a troubling problem with the Senate legislation – underscoring that these freedoms should not be left to ‘unguided’ discretion of state officials. Second Amendment freedoms belong to the people.

– Wayne LaPierre

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I do know we've seen pretty much across the board, with very few exceptions, a real commitment of lawmakers to make it clear that the woman can not be prosecuted.

– Katie Glenn

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's disappointing because residents are just scared, and they come to us because they are scared, and we offer help that makes them feel more confident, that they won’t get stabbed or injured or potentially killed, the fact [lawmakers] are taking that away, for whatever purpose they have in their minds, I find that really sad and unnecessary and morally wrong.

– Brad Pedell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In California, a list is prepared of qualified people and lawmakers get a certain number of strikes, similar to jury strikes, so, the California system is very hard to game.

– Michael Li

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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