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Nov 14 2018
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement on President Donald Trump announcing support for the First Step Act, a bipartisan sentencing and prison reform bill.
Nov 08 2018
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement on the MOX program at Savannah River Site.
Nov 08 2018
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement on the investiture ceremony for Justice Brett Kavanaugh at the Supreme Court of the United States and his meeting in the Oval Office with President Trump.
Nov 07 2018
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) made this statement on the conduct of the White House press corps after today’s presidential news conference at the White House.
Nov 07 2018
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement on the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Nov 07 2018
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement on the midterm elections and how it was impacted by the Supreme Court nomination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Oct 30 2018
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement on reports that President Trump plans to issue an executive order eliminating birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants on American soil.
Oct 10 2018
WASHINGTON – In a letter to President Donald J. Trump, U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, today triggered an investigation and Global Magnitsky sanctions determination regarding the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and columnist for The Washington Post.
Oct 09 2018
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today released this statement on U.S. Ambassador to United Nations Nikki Haley.
Oct 05 2018
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today released this statement applauding Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) for announcing her intention to vote in favor of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
Graham was on the Senate floor and listened to Senator Collins’ address.
“Senator Collins’ floor speech in a word – wow. It will go down in history as one of the most thoughtful, reasoned explanations of support of a Supreme Court nominee. Unlike most Kavanaugh critics, she actually took the time to do her job. She read his opinions, she had in-depth interviews, she listened to the accusers, and she applied a process of the rule of law versus the rule of the mob.
“She rose to the occasion.
“If we had legitimized the coordinated efforts at character assassination, it would have destroyed the Judiciary over time and eroded constitutional principles that protect every American.
“Senator Collins’ speech was one of the most consequential speeches in the history of the United States and did a lot to protect the independence of the judiciary. It should be required viewing in every civics class in America.
“The country needed what Susan Collins provided today – reason, facts, and an understanding of who we are as a nation. She rejected winning at all costs and the politics of personal destruction.
“Finally, Senator Collins eloquently expressed the plight of abused women, sexual assault victims and the hell they go through. Senator Collins, in my view, also understood that the allegations have to be viewed through a logical, constitutionally-sound process, and that unfairly destroying Judge Kavanaugh’s life under these circumstances would not advance any just cause.”
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