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This was a bill that was one of many targeting the LGBTQ community in Montana. This legislature has systematically attacked that community. We have seen bills targeting our art forms, our books, our history and our health care, and I rose up in defense of my community that day, speaking to harms that these bills bring and that I have first-hand experience knowing about. I have friends that have taken their lives because of these bills. – Zooey Zephyr	Found on CNN 11 months ago
The legislature finds and declares that gun violence is a threat to the public health and safety of Washingtonians, assault weapons are civilian versions of weapons created for the military and are designed to kill humans quickly and efficiently. – House Bill 1240	Found on CNN 12 months ago
An overwhelmingly White conservative legislature taking this remarkable and drastic step of expelling the two young African-Americans. – Melissa Deckman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The governor will carefully consider any bill the legislature sends to his desk. – Brooke Stroyke	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
When the data shows an enormous discrepancy in who is being targeted during traffic stops, that discrepancy means a disproportionate number of Black and Brown folks being criminally charged. In order to eliminate the fatal realities of these traffic stops, the legislature and those who do control police actions and resources must intervene. – Chittenden County prosecutor Sarah George	Found on CNN 1 year ago
New Mexicans in every corner of our state deserve protections for their bodily autonomy and right to health care, i’m grateful for the hard work of the Legislature and community partners in getting this critical legislation across the finish line. – Lujan Grisham	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is the duty of the Attorney General’s Office to represent the State of Florida, and as you know, the legislature will be considering amendments to the law during the current session. – Chase Sizemore	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Second Amendment is what makes the rest of the amendments possible. If the state legislature wants to expand upon the foundational rights codified in the Second Amendment, they have the authority to do that. But SAPA is also about the Tenth Amendment. It’s about federalism and individual liberty, so we will be appealing the court’s ruling. – Andrew Bailey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As every legislature knows, if you cut the appropriations for higher education, colleges and universities can just increase what they charge. Just increase tuition. – Elizabeth Shermer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Despite pleas from Oxford families, these issues never even got a hearing in the last legislature, this year, let’s change that. Let’s work together to stop the violence and save lives. – Gretchen Whitmer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Iowa has been put in a position that makes it impossible to comply with both DNC rules and our own state law, which has exactly zero chance of being changed by the Republican legislature. – Rita Hart	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We've been really successful 30 miles outside of Washington, where everything appears to be broken and nothing but divisiveness and dysfunction. I'm in one of the bluest states in the country with a 70% progressive legislature, and I got them to cut taxes eight years in a row by $4.8 billion. And I had the biggest economic turnaround in America, i just don't think he [Donald Trump] happens to be our strongest nominee to win the election in November. – Lawrence Hogan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
That this shocking bill passed through the state legislature and was signed into law by Governor California Gov. Gavin Newsom demonstrates that far too many Americans do not understand the First Amendment. – Jenin Younes	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This is the way the Legislature's supposed to work. – Tim Walz	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We’re not totally surprised that when the New York state legislature decided to abolish the statute of limitations, it was going to lead to a number of stale allegations that are being revived, our position is that the statute is unconstitutional, because it revives claims that have been barred by the statute of limitation for a long time, and that it sets a very dangerous precedent, legally speaking, and not just in the context of old assaults. – Jennifer Bonjean	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I do not have plans to run for anything other than to spend the next four years serving this state as governor with a majority Democratic legislature for the first time in a long time, i know enough about myself to know if there is something that needs to get done, and if there’s a role I can play, I will want to play it. – Gretchen Whitmer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Despite the efforts of the Republican legislature to make it harder to vote, our people voted, people voted, Georgians voted, they said, 'We're not going to let these barriers stand in our way, even if we have to wait in line in the rain.'. – Chuck Schumer	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I never in my wildest dreams thought Democrats would elect our first Republican speaker in the GOP legislature. We did it with secret ballots on the House floor, and I couldn’t believe what was happening, i was trying to make the case to our conference that we better get ourselves unified, or we’re opening up the door for something like that to happen. – Bruce Westerman	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We call on the legislature to let each half of the state go their separate ways in peace. If western Oregon doesn’t like the risk of being forced to accept the gubernatorial candidate it voted against, then it should simply stop holding our counties captive in this unhappy marriage. Actually, it’s not even as dramatic as a divorce, because we’re not breaking up a family. Moving a state border issimilar to redistrictinga utility provider. – Mike McCarter	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
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 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 1 year ago
Our state Legislature continues to try to destroy the initiative process with these kinds of laws, we've had success in the federal courts based on the First Amendment. – Rick Weiland	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
A Pima County judge lifted an injunction that was placed on Arizona's abortion statute, we applaud the court for upholding the will of the legislature and providing clarity and uniformity on this important issue. I have and will continue to protect the most vulnerable Arizonans. – Mark Brnovich	Found on FOX News 1 year ago

This was a bill that was one of many targeting the LGBTQ community in Montana. This legislature has systematically attacked that community. We have seen bills targeting our art forms, our books, our history and our health care, and I rose up in defense of my community that day, speaking to harms that these bills bring and that I have first-hand experience knowing about. I have friends that have taken their lives because of these bills.

– Zooey Zephyr

Found on CNN
11 months ago

The legislature finds and declares that gun violence is a threat to the public health and safety of Washingtonians, assault weapons are civilian versions of weapons created for the military and are designed to kill humans quickly and efficiently.

– House Bill 1240

Found on CNN
12 months ago

An overwhelmingly White conservative legislature taking this remarkable and drastic step of expelling the two young African-Americans.

– Melissa Deckman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The governor will carefully consider any bill the legislature sends to his desk.

– Brooke Stroyke

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

When the data shows an enormous discrepancy in who is being targeted during traffic stops, that discrepancy means a disproportionate number of Black and Brown folks being criminally charged. In order to eliminate the fatal realities of these traffic stops, the legislature and those who do control police actions and resources must intervene.

– Chittenden County prosecutor Sarah George

Found on CNN
1 year ago

New Mexicans in every corner of our state deserve protections for their bodily autonomy and right to health care, i’m grateful for the hard work of the Legislature and community partners in getting this critical legislation across the finish line.

– Lujan Grisham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is the duty of the Attorney General’s Office to represent the State of Florida, and as you know, the legislature will be considering amendments to the law during the current session.

– Chase Sizemore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Second Amendment is what makes the rest of the amendments possible. If the state legislature wants to expand upon the foundational rights codified in the Second Amendment, they have the authority to do that. But SAPA is also about the Tenth Amendment. It’s about federalism and individual liberty, so we will be appealing the court’s ruling.

– Andrew Bailey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As every legislature knows, if you cut the appropriations for higher education, colleges and universities can just increase what they charge. Just increase tuition.

– Elizabeth Shermer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Despite pleas from Oxford families, these issues never even got a hearing in the last legislature, this year, let’s change that. Let’s work together to stop the violence and save lives.

– Gretchen Whitmer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Iowa has been put in a position that makes it impossible to comply with both DNC rules and our own state law, which has exactly zero chance of being changed by the Republican legislature.

– Rita Hart

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We've been really successful 30 miles outside of Washington, where everything appears to be broken and nothing but divisiveness and dysfunction. I'm in one of the bluest states in the country with a 70% progressive legislature, and I got them to cut taxes eight years in a row by $4.8 billion. And I had the biggest economic turnaround in America, i just don't think he [Donald Trump] happens to be our strongest nominee to win the election in November.

– Lawrence Hogan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

That this shocking bill passed through the state legislature and was signed into law by Governor California Gov. Gavin Newsom demonstrates that far too many Americans do not understand the First Amendment.

– Jenin Younes

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is the way the Legislature's supposed to work.

– Tim Walz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We’re not totally surprised that when the New York state legislature decided to abolish the statute of limitations, it was going to lead to a number of stale allegations that are being revived, our position is that the statute is unconstitutional, because it revives claims that have been barred by the statute of limitation for a long time, and that it sets a very dangerous precedent, legally speaking, and not just in the context of old assaults.

– Jennifer Bonjean

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I do not have plans to run for anything other than to spend the next four years serving this state as governor with a majority Democratic legislature for the first time in a long time, i know enough about myself to know if there is something that needs to get done, and if there’s a role I can play, I will want to play it.

– Gretchen Whitmer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Despite the efforts of the Republican legislature to make it harder to vote, our people voted, people voted, Georgians voted, they said, 'We're not going to let these barriers stand in our way, even if we have to wait in line in the rain.'.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I never in my wildest dreams thought Democrats would elect our first Republican speaker in the GOP legislature. We did it with secret ballots on the House floor, and I couldn’t believe what was happening, i was trying to make the case to our conference that we better get ourselves unified, or we’re opening up the door for something like that to happen.

– Bruce Westerman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We call on the legislature to let each half of the state go their separate ways in peace. If western Oregon doesn’t like the risk of being forced to accept the gubernatorial candidate it voted against, then it should simply stop holding our counties captive in this unhappy marriage. Actually, it’s not even as dramatic as a divorce, because we’re not breaking up a family. Moving a state border issimilar to redistrictinga utility provider.

– Mike McCarter

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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
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
1 year ago

Our state Legislature continues to try to destroy the initiative process with these kinds of laws, we've had success in the federal courts based on the First Amendment.

– Rick Weiland

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

A Pima County judge lifted an injunction that was placed on Arizona's abortion statute, we applaud the court for upholding the will of the legislature and providing clarity and uniformity on this important issue. I have and will continue to protect the most vulnerable Arizonans.

– Mark Brnovich

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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