🏛️ Legislative Branch |
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On March 25, 2025, Congress took several important actions. In the Senate, they passed a resolution (S. Res. 138) to support “Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism Awareness Month.” They also voted to confirm several nominations, including Michael Kratsios as the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy with a vote of 74 to 25, and Jayanta Bhattacharya as the Director of the National Institutes of Health with a vote of 53 to 47. In the House, they passed H.R.1534, a bill to improve how cement, concrete, and asphalt are made, with a strong vote of 350 to 73. These actions are significant because they show Congress is working on health awareness and improving American industries, which can help people and the economy. Read full document →
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Random excerpts from the Senate
Mr. President, what I have to tell you is that the American people are angry at what is happening here in Washington, DC, and they are prepared to stand up and fight back. In my view, and what I have heard from many, many people is that they will not accept an oligarchic form of society where a handful of billionaires control our government; where the wealthiest person on Earth, Mr. Musk, is running all over Washington, DC, slashing the Social Security Administration so that our elderly people today are finding it extremely difficult to access the benefits that they paid into; where Mr. Musk and his friends are slashing the Veterans’ Administration so that people who put their lives on the line to defend us will not be able to get the healthcare that they are entitled to or get the benefits that they are owed in a timely manner; slashing the Department of Education; slashing USAID.
— Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
Mr. President, on this day in 1949, the Russian-Soviet regime occupying the Baltic countries rounded up 95,000 people, mostly women and children, and sent them to Siberia. The reason the Soviets did this is pretty simple: They wanted to crush civil society in newly occupied areas because they took over the Baltic countries in 1940. Fifty years of brutal Soviet occupation could not extinguish the flames of freedom and all Baltic countries are again free and prosperous and these three countries happen to be among the most pro-American allies. I wonder if we can learn a lesson because we know that when Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022, he has since kidnapped about 20,000 young people from Ukraine and taken them to Russia to “Russiafy” them, I guess you would say. We should not allow this to continue, and the United States of America ought to be very cautious in any dealings with an international war criminal as Putin has been so condemned.
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Random excerpts from the House
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to condemn in the strongest terms possible President Trump’s executive order that threatens millions of students and local public schools through the dismantling of the Department of Education. This is an illegal and unconstitutional abuse of power straight out of the Project 2025 playbook. Congress created the Department. Only Congress can dismantle it, something I will fight every step of the way. I note that Donald Trump and Elon Musk have likely never set forth in a public school, and they certainly do not understand what the Department of Education actually does and why it is important, but students, families, and teachers in Oregon and across the country understand.
— Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-1)
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to introduce the No Invading Allies Act, a bill to prevent President Trump from invading Canada, Greenland, or Panama without a vote of Congress. It is crazy that we even have to have this conversation. These places, these nations, are our allies. They pose no threat to the United States. After thousands of brave American soldiers fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, many losing their lives, their limbs, and their loved ones, the last thing the American people want is to send our troops to any new wars, especially against countries that pose no threat to our own. Now President Trump will not stop talking about taking over Canada, Greenland, and Panama. He is obsessed.
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