Sean Casten

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1. “Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.”

   House of Representatives22 July 2026Source ↗

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2. “If you stand for corruption, vote ``yes''. But if you stand for national security, for integrity, and for capitalism, vote ``no''. That may be a character test for some in this Chamber, but it is not a remotely close call. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.”

   House of Representatives22 July 2026Source ↗

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3. “Now, lest anybody accuse me of making a partisan point, let's review some recent history, tying specifically to the individuals in the Trump administration who would be making decisions about how to share our national secrets. In the weeks leading up to President Trump's military strikes on Iran, reports found that Secretary Hegseth's broker inquired about a multimillion dollar investment in major defense companies. Earlier this year, President Trump's own leadership PAC sent fundraising emails that offered his donors access to national security debriefings on threats, border security, and foreign adversaries. Don Trump, Jr.'s venture capital firm has invested in more than a dozen defense tech companies.”

   House of Representatives22 July 2026Source ↗

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4. “Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this amendment. This amendment would give the Secretary of Defense sweeping discretion to grant the highest level of security clearances to an unlimited number of investment professionals without any contract, mission, or defined purpose. Now, the theory, as we just heard, is that these investors would then conduct due diligence and steer Federal resources toward companies that can support our national defense. In practice, this would turn our national secrets into another way for the Trump White House to monetize their jobs, putting their friends' wealth over the national interest.”

   House of Representatives22 July 2026Source ↗

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5. “Mr. Speaker, I missed Roll Call vote nos. 111 and 112 because I attended my daughter's senior awards night ceremony. Had I been present, I would have voted Nay on Roll Call No. 111, H.J. Res. 87, and Nay on Roll Call No. 112, H.J. Res. 89. personal explanation”

   House of Representatives30 April 2025Source ↗

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6. “Are any of them going to stand up? Don't they get these calls from their constituents? Why don't they care? I see them all looking away. How would you have me answer that question? I tried. I did my best to explain the psychology of folks I work with who fear Trump more than they fear cancer. Mostly I just got sad because this is a guy who said I want hope; all I have is reality. What I want for hope is medicine, and all I could give him was political science to give him some reality. These stories are in all of our districts. All of our constituents want hope. It is the least we can give them, and we are failing. Mr. Speaker, I ask my Republican colleagues to just please grow a spine. Stand up. Give us some reason to hope. Give me a better answer to the next constituent who calls my office, or indeed yours, with those same questions.”

   House of Representatives30 April 2025Source ↗

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7. “That wasn't why he called. He called because his son's doctors told him that as you go through the course of this treatment, typically, chemo stops working after about 6 months. You see some tumor reduction, and then it stops working. At that point, you really need to start looking for alternatives. Typically, those alternatives mean you start getting into experimental trials. Those are no longer available because Trump and Elon Musk's cuts to NIH are forcing the local hospitals, the local universities, and the drug companies that would have done these clinical trials, to shut them down. {time} 1100 As he put it to me: As a father, I have to balance hope with reality, but it seems like all I have right now is reality. Then he said to me: Do the Republicans you work with know that they can get cancer, too?”

   House of Representatives30 April 2025Source ↗

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8. “Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.”

   House of Representatives11 February 2025Source ↗

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9. “Mr. Speaker, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance defines anti-Semitism, in part, as using symbols and images associated with anti-Semitism and denying the intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people by Nazi Germany. Here is Elon Musk, giving Nazi salutes, supporting the neo-Nazi party in Germany, and telling them that Germany has ``too much after focus on past guilt.'' This weekend, Mr. Musk was given access to U.S.”

   House of Representatives4 February 2025Source ↗

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10. “Mr. Speaker, step right up, and prepare to be amazed. This is an ordinary folder. As you can see, Mr. Speaker, no hidden compartments, and yet inside it is an invisible rabbit. If you like that trick, Mr. Speaker, then you are going to love Donald Trump's national energy emergency. It is also totally imaginary, but as any good carnival barker will tell you, there is a sucker born every minute who falls for this shtick. Let's review the numbers.”

    House of Representatives23 January 2025Source ↗

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