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==susan collins======

​Susan Margaret Collins (born December 7, 1952) is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Maine. A member of the Republican Party, she has held her seat since 1997 and is Maine's longest-serving member of Congress. Born in Caribou, Maine, Collins is a graduate of St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. Beginning her career as a staff assistant for Senator William Cohen in 1975, she became staff director of the Oversight of Government Management Subcommittee of the Committee on Governmental Affairs (which later became the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs) in 1981. Governor John R. McKernan Jr. then appointed her commissioner of the Maine Department of Professional and Financial Regulation in 1987. In 1992 President George H. W. Bush appointed her director of the Small Business Administration's regional office in Boston. Collins became a deputy state treasurer in the office of the Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts in 1993. After moving back to Maine in 1994, she became the Republican nominee for governor of Maine in the 1994 general election. She was the first female major-party nominee for the post, finishing third in a four-way race with 23% of the vote. After her bid for governor in 1994, she became the founding director of the Center for Family Business at Husson University in Bangor, Maine. Collins was first elected to the Senate in 1996. She was reelected in 2002, in 2008, in 2014, and in 2020. She chaired the Senate Special Committee on Aging from 2015 to 2021 and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs from 2003 to 2007. Collins is a senior Republican woman in the Senate, the dean of Maine's congressional delegation, and the only New England Republican in the 116th, 117th, and 118th Congresses. As of the 118th Congress, Collins is the only Republican to represent a Northeastern state in the Senate. She has been called a moderate Republican, and is often a pivotal vote in the Senate. To date, Collins is the longest-serving Republican woman in the Senate, and since 2019, the only Republican official holding statewide office in Maine.

Maine Senators speak on a new bill proposed to revise CDC dog importation rule
This past summer Maine Senator Susan Collins formed a bipartisan group and sent a letter to the CDC outlining concerns about the rules. Last week, she received a response. “I received a letter from the CDC Director indicating that she had taken into account what she’d heard from stakeholders and the 14 senators bipartisan group that I gathered together to write to the CDC about the dog importation rule,” says Senator Collins, “so I think we’re making progress in that direction.” In the letter, the CDC explains the health risks they hope to prevent with some of the new rules, such as the microchipping and the six-month age minimum. (WAGM 9/27/24)READ MORE>>>>>

Jan 16, 2023: Washington Post: ​Thom Tillis emerges as a bipartisan dealmaker as lawmakers fear dysfunction looms
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) was basting her Thanksgiving turkey when Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) gave her a call with an important update: He had made progress in their effort to convince more Senate Republicans to vote for their bipartisan legislation to protect same-sex married couples.
“He’s always working on it,” Collins said of the second-term senator. Her husband pleaded with her to get off the phone and focus on Thanksgiving, but less than a week later, the bill passed with 12 Republican votes — thanks in part to Tillis’s relentless focus.
“He is an extraordinarily good vote counter,” Collins said.

==chris coons======

'Shameful': Republicans quickly come to Trump's defense after his conviction
Sen. Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat, commended the jurors and urged “all Americans, no matter their party affiliation, to accept and respect the outcome of this trial.”(ABC News 5/30/24)READ MORE>>>>>

Senate GOP fears drop in Trump enthusiasm, energy
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), a close Biden ally, said political experts will be watching the New Hampshire results closely to see if the depressed turnout in Iowa was an aberration.   “New Hampshire will give a stronger message to the country about the path forward,” he said.  (Alexander Bolton/The Hill 1/22/24)
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==john cornyn======

Jan 11, 2023; Dallas Morning News: ​‘A global scourge’: Texas Sen. John Cornyn tackles human, sex trafficking in Dallas
​The Dallas woman shared her story Wednesday — National Human Trafficking Awareness Day — at a roundtable with Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn, Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot and other elected leaders.
“I knew there was another purpose for my life,” Bailey said. “The streets felt natural to me, but I knew there was something different out there.”

==angie craig======

Angie Craig

Angela Dawn Craig (born February 14, 1972) is an American politician, retired journalist, and former businesswoman. A member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), she has served as the U.S. representative from Minnesota's 2nd congressional district since 2019. The district includes most of the southern suburbs of the Twin Cities and outlying rural areas to the southwest. Born and raised in Arkansas, Craig worked in journalism and corporate communications. She moved to
​ Minnesota in 2005 for a job at St. Jude Medical. Craig first ran for Congress in 2016, narrowly losing to Jason Lewis, whom she defeated in their 2018 rematch. Craig is the first openly LGBT+ 
member of Congress from Minnesota, and the first lesbian mother to serve in Congress.

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“There is simply too much at stake to risk a second Donald Trump presidency. That's why I respectfully call on President Biden to step aside as the Democratic nominee.”  --Rep Angie Craig 7.21.24​

2024 Minnesota Primary

“Ensuring agricultural land ownership stays in the hands of family farmers here at home instead of adversaries like China is not just critical for our economy, it’s critical for our national security. That’s why I was proud to join Republicans and Democrats to pass this bill through the House. I’ll keep working to ensure our family farmers have the tools and resources they need as they work to feed and fuel our nation.”  --Rep Angie Craig on passage of the Protecting American Agriculture from Foriegn Adversaries Act 9.13.24​

Joe Teirab wins Republican primary in 2nd Congressional District, will face Rep. Angie Craig in November​​
Joe Teirab will face incumbent Democratic Rep. Angie Craig in the November general election after being declared the winner in the Republican primary in Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District. Teirab did not earn the GOP's endorsement, but the candidate who did, Tayler Rahm, dropped out of the primary race in July to take a job on former President Donald Trump's election campaign. (CBS News; 8/14/24) READMORE>>>>>

==rick crawford======

April 23, 2023: KARK: ​Arkansas delegation share support for House debt limit bill
​The House voted to pass a Republican-led bill Wednesday in hopes of preventing a federal default this summer.
The House voted to pass the Limit, Save, Grow Act which would raise the government’s debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion and some of the Arkansas delegation in D.C. have come out in support of it. Rep. Rick Crawford tweeted his support for the bill, stressing the importance of passing it.

June 22, 2020: Roll Call: ​As Tom Cotton courts controversy, he runs unopposed in Arkansas
What did not happen: an outrage-fueled flood of campaign donations to Cotton’s Democratic opponent in this year’s Arkansas Senate race. That’s because Cotton doesn’t have a Democratic challenger. Neither does Rep. Rick Crawford, one of the four Republican House members in Arkansas.

==henry cuellar======

Enrique Roberto "Henry" Cuellar born September 19, 1955) is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 28th congressional district since 2005. He is a member of the Democratic Party. His district extends from the Rio Grande to San Antonio's suburbs. Cuellar served in the Texas House of Representatives for 14 years, from 1987 to 2001, and briefly served as the Texas Secretary of State in 2001, making him, as of 2024, the most recent Democrat to have held a statewide office in Texas. Cuellar was first elected to Congress in 2004, after defeating incumbent Ciro Rodriguez in a primary challenge. He is considered a leading centrist within the House Democratic Caucus. He has since been comfortably reelected in every general election while surviving a number of competitive primary races, most notably in 2020 and 2022. In early May 2024, Cuellar was indicted on money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy charges by a federal grand jury 
​in Houston, Texas. He is alleged to have accepted nearly $600,000 from Azerbaijan and a Mexican commercial bank in order to influence U.S. policy.

Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and wife indicted on federal bribery charges
Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife were indicted on more than a dozen federal charges alleging they took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from an oil company owned by the government of Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank, the Justice Department said Friday.  The 54-page indictment filed in federal district court in Houston was unsealed Friday and charges Cuellar with 14 counts including conspiracy, bribery, and money laundering. He is also accused of acting as a foreign agent to benefit the government of Azerbaijan. Cuellarand his wife, Imelda Rios Cuellar, made their initial appearance before a federal magistrate judge in Houston, where they both pleaded not guilty and were released on an unsecured bond. The jury trial has been tentatively scheduled to begin July 8. (MSN 6/9/24)  READ MORE>>>>>

While Abbott Talks of “Murder,” Migrants Die
As Abbott spoke, two groups of immigrants were preparing to cross the Rio Grande from the bank opposite Shelby Park. According to a Department of Justice court filing Jan. 15, Eagle Pass Border Patrol agents received a call from their counterparts on the Mexican side of the river, stating that two men were struggling on the American side of the river near the Shelby Park boat ramp and that three migrants, a woman and her two children, had drowned near the boat ramp an hour earlier. A Border Patrol supervisor went to the gate manned by Texas National Guard officers and was told that he would not be allowed to enter the park, even in an emergency. In a pair of statements on Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. House Rep. Henry Cuellar said the National Guard "physically barred" Border Patrol. Within hours, authorities on the Mexican side of the river found the bodies of three people – a mother and her two children, ages 8 and 10. They rescued the two men who they said had been struggling near the boat ramp.
(Bryant Bingamon/Austin Chronicle 1/18/24)  READ MORE>>>>>

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