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  1. “I think too often in the #Senate we talk to each other through one another & I wanted him to hear it from me directly,” she said.

    #TinaSmith said it was “hard for me to characterize exactly what he said. He didn’t say a lot, frankly,” but added that #MikeLee “seemed a little surprised to be confronted.”

    Lee angered #Democrats when he pinned blame on them after #MelissaHortman, a Democrat & fmr Speaker of the #Minnesota House, & her husband were killed over the weekend at their home.

  2. She emerged a minute later talking to Lee in an adjacent hallway. The 2 spoke for a couple of minutes before the #Minnesota #Democrat emerged.

    “Let me gather myself,” #TinaSmith said as she left, declining to comment initially.

    She eventually told reporters she wanted #MikeLee to hear from her directly “about how painful that was & how brutal that was to see that on what was just a horrible, brutal weekend.”

    #PoliticalViolence #MelissaHortman #ethics

  3. Sen #TinaSmith (D-MN) on Monday confronted Sen #MikeLee (R-Utah) over of series of comments he made blaming #Democrats for the fatal #shooting of a #Minnesota state lawmaker & her spouse.

    Shortly after the #Senate began its Monday evening vote, Smith was seen walking into a conference room where #Republicans were about to hold a meeting to discuss the text the Finance Cmte had just unveiled for the party’s massive tax bill.

    #PoliticalViolence #MelissaHortman #ethics
    thehill.com/homenews/senate/53

  4. The police have not announced any arrests.
    The suspect left behind a “manifesto” & a list of potential next targets that included #TimWalz, acc/to ABC News.

    The list, whose existence was confirmed by law enforcement earlier on Saturday, contained the names of many top #Minnesota #Democrats, including Walz, Rep. #IlhanOmar, Sen. #TinaSmith, & AG #KeithEllison, law enforcement sources told ABC.

    #MelissaHortman #JohnHoffman #criminal #law #PoliticalViolence #Minnesota
    abcnews.go.com/US/2-minnesota-

  5. I hadn’t heard this despicable statement by #RFKJr before today:

    Sen #TinaSmith, D-MN, spoke about her own battle with illness in questioning Kennedy on his views about #antidepressants. She pointed to misinformation he has spread & said his statements added to the #stigma around #MentalIllness. Kennedy said in the past, without evidence, that the majority of school shooters take antidepressants, suggesting that the medications are a cause of #SchoolShootings.

    #ConspiracyTheories #MentalHealth

  6. “There is a very clear, well-organized plan afoot by the #MAGA #Republicans to use #Comstock as a tool to #ban #MedicationAbortion, & potentially all #abortions,” said Sen #TinaSmith (MN), who on Thurs plans to introduce legislation to repeal the #ComstockAct’s #abortion provisions. “My job is to take that tool away.”

    #ReproductiveRights #law #Congress #legislation #WomensHealth #health #extremism #Christian #evangelism #MaleSupremacy #TrumpProofing

  7. "The 151-year-old measure is a purity law, designed to prevent use of the mails for any obscene material, which includes information about or designed to promote abortion. The Appellants in the Supreme Court, who wanted to end access to Mifepristone, argued that the Act could be used to ban mailing it, which is a key way women get access to it."

    #Republicans #abortion #ComstockAct #TinaSmith
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  8. "Minnesota Senator Tina Smith says she will introduce legislation to repeal the Comstock Act. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because we discussed it when efforts to ban medication abortion first surfaced in the Texas lawsuit that was argued last week in the Supreme Court, the Mifepristone case."

    ~ Joyce Vance

    #Republicans #abortion #ComstockAct #TinaSmith
    /4

    joycevance.substack.com/p/the-

  9. Proposed legislation could help clear significant credit reporting hurdles for transgender and nonbinary people. Democratic Sens. John Fetterman and Tina Smith will introduce a bill Thursday requiring credit reporting agencies to use only a person’s current name in their credit reports, Fetterman’s office shared with The 19th exclusively.

    #lgbtq #transrights #trans #lgbt #nonbinary #enby #johnfetterman #tinasmith

    19thnews.org/2023/07/credit-hu

  10. Senators ask regulators to investigate bank and crypto ties, citing Washington state bank - U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren at a 2019 campaign rally in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / T... - geekwire.com/2022/senators-ask #elizabethwarren #mooonstonebank #tinasmith #civic

  11. Ajit Pai refuses to investigate Frontier’s horrible telecom service - Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on December 14, 2017, in Washington DC, the day of the FCC's vote t... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1501773 #amyklobuchar #minnesota #tinasmith #frontier #ajitpai #policy