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OK, let’s talk about Dr. Ben Carson.

Yes, I have serious, deep, profound concerns about Dr. Carson’s inexperience to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Yes, I adamantly disagree with many of the outrageous things that Dr. Carson said during his presidential campaign. Yes, he is not the nominee I wanted.

But “the nominee I wanted” is not the test.

Millions of American families depend on HUD programs, including tens of thousands of families in Massachusetts. For many of them, HUD assistance is the difference between a safe, stable home and life on the street. As someone who has spent a lot of time working on housing policy in this country, my focus is on helping these families – and the countless others who could benefit from a stronger agency.

During the nomination process, I sent Dr. Carson a nine-page letter with detailed questions on a whole range of issues: Section 8 housing assistance; lead exposure in public housing; programs to prevent and end homelessness; programs to help victims of domestic violence; fighting housing discrimination; HUD’s role in preparing for and recovering from natural disasters; and, more broadly, the standards he will use for managing the department, including the steps he will take to protect the rights of LGBT Americans.

Dr. Carson’s answers weren’t perfect. But at his hearing, he committed to track and report on conflicts of interest at the agency. In his written responses to me, he made good, detailed promises, on everything from protecting anti-homelessness programs to enforcing fair housing laws. Promises that – if they’re honored – would help a lot of working families.

Can we count on Dr. Carson to keep those promises? I don’t know. People are right to be skeptical; I am. But a man who makes written promises gives us a toehold on accountability. If President Trump goes to his second choice, I don’t think we will get another HUD nominee who will even make these promises – much less follow through on them.

If Dr. Carson doesn’t follow through on his commitments, I will be the very first person he hears from – loudly and clearly and frequently. I didn’t hesitate to criticize past HUD Secretaries when they fell short, and I won’t hesitate with Dr. Carson – not for one minute.

I understand that some people might have made the call differently. I appreciate your making your thoughts heard. Unlike the new Administration, I don’t believe in ignoring or silencing people who disagree with the choices I make or the votes I take.

We’ve got a lot of nominees to consider, and a lot of places where we need to turn up the heat under the Senate Republicans. (Yes, Betsy DeVos, I’m looking at you. And Pruitt, Mnuchin, Puzder, Price, Tillerson – it’s a long list.) Either way, we need all of us in this fight. Your voices are powerfully important, and I hope you’ll keep speaking up for what you believe in.

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Jason Concepcion
I find it very vexing that after 8 years of obstruction, the Dems are still trying to get along. I'm sorry, Sen. Warren, but what's required here is for you to show your base that you are willing to fight. Millions of people didn't take to the streets in the hopes that you would placate Trump by voting up plainly incompetent people. Jesus Christ. Imagine if you had half the courage of whoever runs social media for our national parks.
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Laura Fairbanks
You should oppose all nominees - they're going to get confirmed with or without you - they have the majority - why support him? Sounds like backroom deals to me - you vote for him, someone else votes against the next one? I understand making deals - but no one should normalize this administration or his picks - they're all awful. Very disappointed in my represenatatives
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Stephen Redding
Senator, the party who is now in power got there by being an immovable block to everything we had to say. For all I vehemently disagree with them, they stood by their horrible principles. They count on us (Dems) to compromise, and turn that other cheek so they can slap us again. We have to STOP this. Dems will vote for Dems who stand by their principles. Dems won't vote for those who compromise with authoritarians. Would you vote for Goering because he is better than the alternative? When Carson (inevitably) disappoints, many of us won't be sympathetic with you, because voting for a member of an authoritarian regime is appeasement and collaboration.
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Kristin Paolini
Very disappointed in your vote and your explanation is weak at best. Why do the dems consistently roll over after their strong words and objections to their constituents? Don't your principles count any longer. Please show more backbone Elizabeth!
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Hank Leftwich
Unqualified is unqualified. Shame on you for caving under the guise of seeking compromise. Your failure to vote in accordance with these most basic of requirements is inexcusable. It matters not if Dr. Carson is the best of a poor field, he is still not fit for a position with such power and influence over the most vulnerable amongst us. You have lost my respect, you have lost my trust, and you have lost my vote. Shame.
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Shari Bee
This explanation only makes things worse. We need Democrats to stop acting like it's business as usual and adopt a strategy of proactive resistance. There is nothing normal about this presidency.
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Patricia Anderson
Dear Senator Warren,

Thank you for serving our country and for bravely speaking your voice every day.

Although I am not your constituent, I sincerely appreciate your thoughtful deliberation and honest response about this issue of concern.

Please keep up the fight. People like you give me hope for the future and faith in our democracy in a very dark time.

Respectfully,
Patricia Anderson
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Martin Kalfatovic
If he's not the nominee you want you vote NO. Vote your concious and for those who thought you had their backs, a yes vote supports an unqualified person. He would have been approved WITHOUT your vote. What did you accomplish? Nothing.
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Stephany Wilkes
The Republicans aren't picky. Why are the Dems? Why keep reaching across the aisle into the void? Did the Republicans give one vote for the ACA? For Merrick Garland? No. Why do they deserve any from the Dems, then? It is painful to admit, but they've shown us that obstruction works: It wins elections.
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Jenni Robinson Reisinger
No, no, no! We need you to stand for what is right. Not make deals or cave for the sake of "bigger fish to fry." If this is truly about being strategic then you need to STAND YOUR GROUND. If he isn't qualified he is not qualified--there are likely hundreds of not thousands of Americans who are qualified for these roles. does this mean when you are voting on abortion and immigration you will pick one over the other for the sake of "picking your battles"? Or are you going to do the right thing 100% of the time? I genuinely appreciate your explanation but I beg you to reconsider this approach. Trump is different. He will sense weakness. Do not give in and stay strong and true to your gut. No more "playing politics."
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Andrea Simon
I'm tired of Democrats taking it on the cheek. We need Democratic leaders that filibuster, obstruct and fight fire with fire. I think every ONE of Trump's nominations should be blocked. Not one will be productive in their roles, since they all are clearly against democracy and representing those positions effectively. The wave is here - either fight for us THE PEOPLE or we vote people in that are dogged warriors and are willing to never back down. We either fight - or let these facist take over our government. Please keep voting no, blocking undemocratic nominations and executive orders (eye roll).
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Hudson Phillips
For the first time I have doubts about Elizabeth Warren. So many issues today about the sorry state of our government. I have been looking for your voice to add leadership, to make deep questions more coherent. Right now, Ben Carson is not worthy of your protection.
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Dan King
I look forward to your empty, utterly meaningless speech when Sec. Carson (not if, when) violates those worthless promises he made you. This is not politics as usual, and the fact that you would treat it as such shows you are utterly unfit to carry the Progressive mantle in the Democratic Party or anywhere else. Your pithy excuse for "saving political capital...".

YOU AND ALL OTHER DEMOCRATS HAVE ZERO POLITICAL CAPITAL. I am so utterly disappointed in you and the failure of your leadership. Ben Carson, far more so than all other Trump appointees except DeVos, is uniquely unqualified to lead HUD, and your job as a Senator was to express as much.

You failed. You are a failure in a time that requires strength. Maybe another Kennedy can step up and take your seat and actually FIGHT.
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Barbara Cambridge
Thank you for explaining the reasoning behind your vote on Carson. Please keep standing in opposition to Betsy DeVos, who knows nothing about so much essential to public education.
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James Culver
That's a b.s. explanation Senator Warren. I expect a Senator from MY State of Massachusetts to oppose EVERY nominee. It's not the time to capitulate and play ball....it's the time to stand and go on record as saying Trump and the GOP will get ZERO cooperation from ANY Democrat. The American people are watching you and EVERY Democrat. Those who don't stand with us will not be representing us come 2018. You're in for a real battle to begin with in 2018. Decisions like these will NOT help your cause. Work with Sanders or get out of the way. I like you, but you're backing the wrong side for the heart of the Party.
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Deniece Peterson
I respect you Senator Warren but I think you made the wrong call here. The reality is that Ben Carson will be confirmed regardless of your vote because of either the lack of integrity or fear of reelection time among your Republican colleagues. The risk of a 2nd, less qualified nominee seems low because Republicans do not need your vote to get him confirmed. I have no doubt that you will hold him accountable, but the record should show your resistance. He is no less dangerous than Betsy DeVos. Both are grossly underqualified and short-sighted; he's just slightly better at hiding it, and that's not saying much.
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Nicole DiCello
I'm very disappointed in this. Carson doesn't have enough "awakeness" in every sense of that made up word to perform this job. I think it's dangerous to give him a chance - just like it's dangerous to give anyone in Trump's cabinet picks a chance. I do appreciate you and all you do for Massachusetts (I campaigned for you!), so please reconsider.
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Melanie Fuller
I am very sad that you chose to vote yes. This is not the kind of leadership we need or want right now. He is completely unqualified. We will be on the lookout for real leaders to replace all of you.
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Alek Williams
I've read your statement and I see where you're coming. I still do not care. Do not vote for him. Of course we're not going to get a nominee we like. That doesn't mean we stop resisting and show the American people our values and that the Democratic Party stands for working people. You betray that by voting for this guy. He has no experience, won't protect poor people or LGBT people and won't keep his promises. He has no idea what half the work will be. Do not vote for him. Resist the nominees and stand up for us.
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Gerry Dunlap
I am disappointed, Senator Warren, even after reading your reason for approving this appointment. I marched in Boston Saturday. You spoke fervently about the need to stay involved. Senator Elizabeth Warren it is time for the Democrats to stand together and vote against DeVos, Mnuchin, Sessions, Pruitt, Price.and Perry. The Republicans stood together and blocked as much legislation as was feasible and they most certainly killed a Supreme Court Justice appointment. There will be time to "work together" but now is not the time to support the aforementioned names. they are all billionaires who are only looking to feather their own nests. None have the interests of their nation at heart.
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Wyatt Coleman
Those of you looking to strike back at Senator Warren in the primaries May still be striking out at one of your strongest allies. The nuances of circumstance and the strategies of politics, in a hostile environment, or not always so simple.
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Chris MacAvoy
Fight for us and we will vote for you. What does voting for Carson achieve, except demoralizing people who look to you for leadership?
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Michael Westgaard
They don't need your vote to approve any of these nominees let the republicans wear this administration. Did you learn nothing from the Obama years? The republicans will not work with you on anything and will expect you to bow to them. What a disappointment. HUD can run without a secretary. Join the new wing of the party!

https://justicedemocrats.com/platform/
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Jamelle Thomas
Would you hire a pilot with no flight experience? No. When it crashes, who will be complicit? The ones who gave him the controls. SMH This is such a disappointment how weak the Dems are.
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Diane Haley
You cannot settle for less then the best candidate and housing drives our economy. This is disappointing to me. I will ask your to reconsider and vet him more and ask more questions. He is not the right choice for us. Please. Stand up and continue that fight. He could barely answer questions and he will be responsible for the families that need this assistance? That's just not the right answer Senator Warren. I am a Realtor in Massachusetts. My clients are many of those families. They depend on a solid knowledge and a person that can make sound decisions. We should be able to depend on you to protect that. Reconsider. This is critical to our Nation.
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Sarah Smith
I am so incredibly disappointed in you, Senator Warren. You have failed your people and complacently gone along with this insane charade. We look to our few sane leaders left to stand up for us and resist with us. Stop normalizing this administration.
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Samuel Wolrich
Thank you for sending a message that Democrats respect the president's authority to nominate cabinet officials, and save their battles for irredeemably unqualified, corrupt appointees.

Which in this case is most of Trump's other nominees.
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Jake Reif
In a world where Trump became President in a free and fair election and we needed to acknowledge that most of the country wanted him to be the president and be given a chance, this might have been an adequate explanation for your vote.

But that's not the world we live in. Playing this game of politics, of negotiation, of compromise, only works where our republic is functioning, albeit poorly.

Our republic is not functioning. A fascist kleptocrat has taken power through foreign interference, institutional abuses of power, suppression of voting rights, and breaches of key democratic norms.

In such a situation, we need a resistance, not an opposition. That means standing up and saying "No" to business as usual.

Maybe had Ben Carson promised to provide a check on Trump's flagrant daily abuses of power, I could understand this vote.

But in casting a vote for him, merely because someone worse could be confirmed, you are normalizing and legitimizing an administration that ought to be opposed in every way until it can be taken down and replaced with a legitimate democratic government.

Do better, Senator Warren.
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John Todoroff
Ben Carson's qualifications, or lack thereof, are completely beside the point. It is your duty to oppose everything that Trump does. Don't rest until he is locked up behind bars or buried in the ground. The "keep the powder dry" argument does not apply because Republicans do not respect compromise at all. It is liberals' folly to believe that they can successfully compromise with or trade favors with Republicans.
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Kevin Mepham
Yes, you're being the reasonable adult. But the past 10 days have shown us that these are not reasonable times. So stop it. Stop sending the message that *any* of this is OK (let alone the utterly unqualified Ben Carson FFS). Start sending the message to the Republican Party that *nothing* is OK, that *everything* will be stopped dead in its tracks, until they repudiate Trump and everything he stands for. I do not want to see another Yes vote from you or any other Democrat from this day forward. All we should see from this point forward from you is No, Filibuster, Hold, and Lawsuit. If you can't understand this, we'll find someone who will.
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Defense officials have said year after year that we’ve “turned the corner” in Afghanistan, but I see a vicious cycle that damages our reputation abroad and keeps troops in harm's way. I told U.S. Central Command this week: I support the President’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan.

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Eric Jacobs
It only took the Russians 10 years to realize they weren't doing any good - we just didn't mind wasting more lives and money, I guess. NO ONE wins in Afghanistan - ever.
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John Bergstrom
We have to withdraw militarily, but we can still try to help diplomatically and financially. Maybe through supporting UN projects, or organizations like Doctors Without Borders.
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Fazlullah Kohestani
Dear senator as we know that the US is withdrawing his troops from Afghanistan but have the senate ever thought about the interpreters lives in Afhhanistan .we stood shoulder to shoulder with the American forces and specially I am the current interpreter of The US forces in Afghanistan and I am to worried about my future .besides this we have two chances one we shoud left afghanistan by illegal ways and second we we will surrender to taliban .the taliban have already announce that whenever you arrest any interpreter go head and decapitate them and they have decapitated alot of them in the previous time .my question is why we are deprived from the SIV process which is a legal way for the interpreters to left afghanistan.otherwise every buddy knows what should be our future.
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Ferah Deyer
Anywhere the US has tried to bring “democracy” and “help” has not improved EVER..... it is left in worse condition than it was originally.
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Myra Hunter Jones
we should never have gone there--we even had the USSR's example--they invaded, stayed a long time, spent a lot of rubles, and then left empty handed. But Bush was talked into the war by his dad's reruns in his cabinet and they all lied us into war--notably Colin Powell, to his everlasting shame!
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Albert Sheean
There is a reason why Afghanistan is known as 'the graveyard of empires'.
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Judy Tyrer
I wonder what Malala has to say about this? I always wonder about her and where she would be if we were NOT there to save her life.
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Hans Steinmann
Why don’t you address the Vicious cycle your inciting on your own soul ,, Mrs , Warren .
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Rick York, profile picture
Rick York
"We've turned the corner..." What is that, an octagon? still more corners?
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Darragh Nagle
War. Great business. Makes lots of money for certain people.
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Brian Paradis
I agree 100%. We have been there for 20 yrs. And wasted TRILLIONS of $$. When we leave, nothing will have changed. What a WASTE of lives, time and money. BUT, Halliburton made BILLIONS off of it with NO BID contracts. Think about that.
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Dc O'brien
I get it. And we need to stop fighting global wars. What I wonder though is what will happen to those folks who've had a taste of demcracy for the past 20 years - especially women - when the Taliban come in and start taking heads? It's pretty sad.
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Ronald Romano
How about doing us all a favor and quit trying to think up s... to keep your face in the public eye. No one cares what you have to say!!
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Kyle C Swords, profile picture
Kyle C Swords
Feel bad for all the afghanis who sided with us and worked us that ate being left to fend for themselves.
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Jim Vollan, profile picture
Jim Vollan
Afghanistan is no better off today than when first got there and no one has ever provided a plan that would change Afghanistan in the future. Custom and religion do not change if forced from the outside.
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Linda Haghgoo, profile picture
Linda Haghgoo
The Taliban doesn't want our culture. They won't allow education for girls. Old lechers can "marry" unwilling preadolescent females. We should never stop diplomatic efforts to modify their medieval view. They want their commodity opium. Perhaps we can keep it from becoming heroin.
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Guy Ingram
Warren has long been my favorite politician
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John Schneider, profile picture
John Schneider
If you turn the corner four times, you're back where you started.
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Richard Michael Rao
U certainly didn't support the last president when he tried doing it. Clowns
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Jim McNulty, profile picture
Jim McNulty
bring back the troops. the equipment. the money. leave a warning... DON'T MAKE US COME BACK.
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Wes Ward, profile picture
Wes Ward
Give farmers a alternative to growing opium,take the drug trade out of the equation
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Peter Takeuchi, profile picture
Peter Takeuchi
So, America withdraws (retreats) from Afghanistan, but the Pentagon budget INCREASES! WTF?
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Hal Parker, profile picture
Hal Parker
There is no corner to turn. They are still tribal. We can't fix that.
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Joseph A Sprute, profile picture
Joseph A Sprute
without a global intelligence safety-net the problems we are experiencing will escalate. creating the future in reverse, ah, there's the rub
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Terry Baker, profile picture
Terry Baker
Why the hell were we ever IN Afghanistan?
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Donald Cox
True, and he's replacing them with private contractors (Hired mercenaries) to maintain control of resources...
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Jud Tom Judson, profile picture
Jud Tom Judson
We are in Afghanistan for what reason, again?... I keep forgetting!!!!!
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Mary Jones
Cut your loses. It is a no win situation.
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Craig Thomas Yates
Eric Jacobs Yes USSR 1990 1991 disbanded their government because they couldn’t gain results in Afghanistan 🇦🇫
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Duane Roberts
Why are we withdrawing? I thought it is our job to police the world.
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, profile picture

Lowering the Medicare eligibility age, expanding benefits, capping out-of-pocket costs, and negotiating drug prices would be life-changing for the American people. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and I urge President Biden to take historic action in the American Families Plan.

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17 senators ask Biden to push for Medicare expansion

"We have an historic opportunity to make the most significant expansion of Medicare since it was signed into law."
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Jacquelyn Marie
If you lowered the Medicare age there would be many people who would retire early. So many people have to keep working for health insurance. It would open jobs for a younger generation.
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Bob McMahon
Lowering the eligibility age is in the 2020 Democratic Platform and should be acted upon. Many workers in their late 50s and early 60s cling to jobs for the medical benefits, or get laid off and suddenly find themselves uninsured and faced with expensive COBRA rates. They should be able to get Medicare at 55 or 60.
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Betty J Lippold
This is a simple and much needed move... U.S. already knows how to provide 'Medicare for All'... it could be done over night, not implemented ten years from now.
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Conri Romaniak
Expanding the rights of the disabled to make it easier for disabled individuals to get benefits and to not LOOSE those benefits if they get married should also be a part of this.
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Stephen B Wilson
Yes but single payer system would be cheaper. Big health insurance is robbing taxpayers as patients pay as patients and pay as taxpayers. Executive salaries are totally out of line with real people.
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Debi Mass
Health insurance should not be for profit. The insurance companies deny necessary care so they can fill the pockets of their executives and stockholders.
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Jen Dull Ratcliffe
I'm a teacher. I spent 101% of my gross income for 2020 on childcare and out of pocket medical expenses. Yes, we have insurance. No, we do not qualify for subsidies of any kind. Our system is beyond broken. Keep pushing for change please!
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Eric Heidel
That's nice, but...

In the midst of a pandemic that has shown beyond a doubt that the nation needs something like M4A, seventeen senators cannot muster the will to ask for a dramatic change that would actually benefit everyone.

Our system is broken.
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Sabine Atwell
I am on Medicare and am not arguing agaibst expanding the system for others. However, the system as it is now is not financially sustainable. We take out more than we pay in.
Ergo, how to ecpand such a system before it is put on a fibancially sound path???
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Diana Gulas
Please address how messed up and expensive Medicare for senior citizens.
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Aaron Miner
Just push Medicare-for-All. It'll make our health care system more efficient and less costly and confusing in the long run.
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Anita Thomas
It’s not just seniors that have problems paying for medical care. More younger people can’t afford medical care or prescriptions. Even with health coverage from your employer it costs an outrageous out of pocket expense. There needs to be a medical system that works for all. Including prescription drugs, dental, optical and hearing. Our system is beyond broken, because it’s all about the rich making billions.
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Susan Mangan
Because I worked as an independent contractor for years with an older retired husband, I have been on the ACA for many years. I am now retired, but not 65. Together we make just over the amount where there would be a subsidy. With no subsidy, I am on the cheapest and the ONLY plan I can get, $498 a month, with a $7500 deductible. I would dearly love to be on Medicare.
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Dana Marie Ross
How about people on SS and SSDI shouldn't have to pay for Medicare and there definitely shouldn't be a Medigap that they should have to worry about. Medicare should be all encompassing..not all these parts ABCD to confuse people! All these people think they will be okay..just get me to 65 and I get Medicare but it is awful!! Please work on the entire system first! And I'm not complaining for myself, I'm not even close to retirement.
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Mick Perkins
Get rid of the space force. Half the defense budget. Increase the I.R.S. personnel and budget by 3 or 4 times what it is now. Collect past due from mega corporations and work on Manchin and Sibola to vote for the common workers.
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Linda Hendelman
Let's go "whole hog" and extend Medicare to every single American. At the very least, dental coverage please for seniors. It affects all health and is very very expensive.
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Steve Devore
Senator Warren, is there ANY forward movement on an effort to lower the age eligibility for Medicare?
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Roger Williams
They all should be pushing Medicare for All which would bring us in line with the rest of great nations who think of there people over a corporation......
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Samet Osmanlı
Everyone deserves the right to healthcare. Medicare for ALL.
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Paul Mathieu
Age for Medicare eligibility should no be lowered. Any non-medical benefits added would end up increasing the Medicare premiums for all. There are many good ideas being thrown out, but we all know nothing isn’t truly free. We all would all pay more.
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Dave Dreyfus
Just mege Medicare and The VA into one entity called NHS (National Health Service) like other modern democracies like England and Canada have.
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Patricia Ann Schubert
Get rid of the insurance companies. Replace with Single Payer Medicare for All. Everyone is covered.
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Ray Muccianti
Get rid of health insurance corporations who provide no product and exist for siphoning money from people and obstructing Healthcare. It should be illegal!
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Mc Vitry
Expanding Medicare to people 60 and over will ensure that my family has financial stability instead of struggle. That one policy change will have an incredibly positive impact on so many lives.
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Christopher Good
We need single payer, like modern countries have.
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Pam Buck
My husband lost his corporate job due to COVID. We looked for a vision therapist for our daughter with chronic Lyme disease for years. We finally found one at one of the largest hospitals in Houston. They do not take ANY Affordable Care Act plans. We are heartbroken. Please make Medicare available for all.💚
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Jeff Bertuleit
Just allowing people to join Medicare at 60 would help relieve the working retired gap and boost productivity.
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Cindy Taylor
Great, let me BUY into Medicare. Getting your own insurance when you are over 60 but not yet 65 is a nightmare. It's ungodly expensive and covers nothing. I'd rather pay into Medicare and have insurance that actually covers something!
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Mendy Medlin
Universal Healthcare for all, not just the elderly and late middle aged! Aim higher!
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David Goboff
And embrace the fact that our teeth and eyes should be covered by the same umbrella. (I've had teeth pulled to avoid the price of implants! - chew on that).
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, profile picture

The atrocities against Lakota men, women and children at Wounded Knee should never have been honored. I am leading the fight within Congress alongside Senator Jeff Merkley and Congressman Kaiali‘i Kahele to take an important step toward righting this profound wrong.

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Tribes Want Medals Awarded for Wounded Knee Massacre Rescinded

Native Americans are stepping up efforts to pressure Congress to revoke Medals of Honor awarded for the killings of Sioux, including unarmed women and children, at Wounded Knee.
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Gary Feasel
The officers involved and the politicians that were involved, should be identified for this disaster. These hisorical murders should be identified and taught to all middle and high school students. We should not have to wait until college/university classes for this blunder in our history. Years ago, Billy Mills, the great Sioux distance runner and Olympic champion was on our campus and I visited with him about this atrocity.
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Autumn Tampa
Not sure who got medals ..soldiers or generals?? This to me is a complicated issue. Those who won medals thought they were fighting for right... fighting for their country. It is the American Government... that is to blame. The presidents of that time...the leaders of that time...the lawmakers and generals...not the low level soldiers...
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Kitty Foley
Thank you for magnifying this important issue. Let's clean up our own messes, before trying to be moral conscience for the rest of the world. I have a feeling we will not soon run out of areas that need addressing.
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Berni SantaMaria
Yes, that should also happen to all US cavalry/military that murdered innocent women, elders, children during the so-called "Apache wars" too here in the SW. There were medals awarded there too.
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Kane Oloa, profile picture
Kane Oloa
Standing Rock, the place where Sitting Bull was assassinated. The crimes of the times are not exonerated just because more time has passed. The illegal murders and seizure of lands was not OK then, and it's not OK today. Reckoning truly gonna come.
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Patricia C. Epifanio, profile picture
Patricia C. Epifanio
Yes, absolutely and immediately.
Senator Warren, on the job and fighting the good fights.
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Rachel Spory Harper, profile picture
Rachel Spory Harper
Any medal awarded for a massacre like that should be taken back. The Washita massacre was awful
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Steven Boone, profile picture
Steven Boone
One of the many dark points in our history. Man's inhumanity to his fellow man is sickening.
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Sandi Scarlett, profile picture
Sandi Scarlett
It's about time. And, Leonard Peltier should be let out of prison. If you're not aware of the event that put him in prison, do your research. He is innocent.
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James Michael Lee, profile picture
James Michael Lee
A person, can't undo the past, but a person can make Amends for wrongdoing. And making Amends requires doing something, if it is just apologizing. Whenever a victimizer takes responsibility for his or her actions and wrongdoings, the making of Amends can allow for healing to the victims and even healing to the victimizers. Victims won't always except an Amends but the person making the Amends is freed up just the same, by his or her honest effort to Amend past behaviors.
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Loree Brenot, profile picture
Loree Brenot
I can appreciate the thought, but how could this wrong ever be righted? Like all atrocities in history, the lesson is not to repeat them.
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Mandy Macdonald, profile picture
Mandy Macdonald
The Medals of Honor should be revoked. There is no honor in killing unarmed women and children. It's never too late to do the right thing.
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Eric DiBona, profile picture
Eric DiBona
This is insane! Why don't you think of things to bring country together rather than rip it apart. Stop being a voice for people that have hurt feelings for something that didn't happen to them. Learn from history not destroy it.
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Heather Lynn Dewbre, profile picture
Heather Lynn Dewbre
I mean if we are going to start stripping medals from dead soldiers for their atrocities, lets work our way back... Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, etc. those guys are actually still alive along with the politicians that put them there.
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Steve Adelson, profile picture
Steve Adelson
Those medals were awarded in the context of the times. In the light of today......horribly immoral and disgusting. Present that perspective historically and teach it to others but find something that impacts what is happening today. Not 150 years ago.
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Gary Hunter, profile picture
Gary Hunter
Should we reconsider more recent wars we probably shouldn't have been killing people over, also with women and children dying colaterally.
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Roy Glen Spurlock, profile picture
Roy Glen Spurlock
Senator, if you and your colleagues would concentrate on something worthwhile in today's world we would be better off. I guess it's better for you to get votes.
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Jeremiah Pierucci, profile picture
Jeremiah Pierucci
No wonder Democrats lose elections (and I’m a Democrat!). Sigh. And to think at one point I thought you would make a good president. Bring the country together, stop tearing it apart.
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Felicity Spring, profile picture
Felicity Spring
Stop condemning other nations for their atrocities, we have plenty of our own!
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Robert Ahern Sakay, profile picture
Robert Ahern Sakay
How about your focus resources on today’s issues than show disregard to those individuals who served this country in the past.
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Carol Roberts, profile picture
Carol Roberts
You have my support! I am appalled there were honors given! Another thing I did not learn til an adult
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Robert Blackmore, profile picture
Robert Blackmore
Well, its a pity we can't make current thing right. Going back 150 years is a little crazy. Next, those of us with endentured servants in our background will be getting apology letters.
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George Keller, profile picture
George Keller
Just unbelievable but true !!! In Vietnam it's estimated that with high level bombing and other military actions that we killed over 2.5 million Vietnamese . Is it any wonder that after 11 years and 58 thousand dead American the people of Vietnam showed us the door. They figured that they could do just as well if not better under the Viet Cong as under us. Today Vietnam is trading partners with the world and finally at peace. This is the unreported truth about our American history that most Americans don't know.
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Rita Hodges, profile picture
Rita Hodges
Honestly I would say it's probably too late I mean that happened a long time ago but that's the logical side but the emotional side says it's never too late.
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Marta Soriano, profile picture
Marta Soriano
If we can have confederate statues throughout the south we can have reparations and monuments to those who suffered in this nation.
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Brian P. Poi, profile picture
Brian P. Poi
We had a battle. We won. To the victor go the spoils.
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Dennis Grove, profile picture
Dennis Grove
I AM SO HAPPY to find someone, anyone to finally stand up for these people who thru no fault of their own were decimated by the white man.
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Lynn Mosher, profile picture
Lynn Mosher
They're all dead now? God is dealing with their blacLet's focus on what needs to he done now.
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Leon Kaset, profile picture
Leon Kaset
guess the right wing will call this "cancel cultural warfare".
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Kaesy Kelley, profile picture
Kaesy Kelley
How about y'all focus on the millions of dollars the US owes the nations and start honoring that.
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