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Correction: I listed Max Frost as a "brand new" congressman because his statement included that he did not expect his first speech after being elected to be on this topic. He did say this, but I suppose he meant first speech after being RE-elected.

Story has been updated to change "brand new" to "second term" reflecting Rep Frost's previous term of service in the House.

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We need more Representatives like Rep. Frost.

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Just the young ones…..we need more of them.

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The cesspool of X is something I hate wading in now, but damn, Rep. Frost is not playing around.

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Republican Party is the party of hate. They have no plan to make anything better and in order to have something to legislate around they hate something or somebody. Today’s target for hatred are transgender people. The transgender community is guilty of nothing but existing. Just like climate change. Climate change exists. It doesn’t care repubs call it a hoax and don’t believe. It doesn’t stop.

Transgender people have always been with us but hidden. Now they want to be visible. They only want equal rights nothing extra. Republicans don’t believe in trangender, but that won’t stop them either. But let’s hurt them and make them afraid to be seen. Drive them to hiding again. REPUBLICANS = HATE. I said what I said and I stand by it.

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“This bill doesn’t even come close to protecting women and girls in sports. In fact, it puts all women and girls in danger of sexual abuse.”

After years of Republican after Republican getting caught up in sexual violence against women and girls, this *precisely* seems to be the end goal here: impunity for any and all Republican creeps and pervs.

Brb. Need a Silkwood shower.

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This makes me ill. As a former (not champion or even really good) competitive swimmer, I can see the inherent creepiness of this. NO. JUST NO.

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Living in Florida is like being a very sickly canary in a GOP coal mine. We get all the extremism first, and it’s literally destroying lives. But I am awfully proud of my representative Maxwell Frost!

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Sarah McBride has it all. She's brilliant, caring, deeply evolved as a human being. Perhaps one day we will speak of her service in Congress without mentioning her sexual orientation.

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Nice to read this CD, thank you.

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So glad to see the Democrats taking on the Republican bullies.

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Trump's reign of terror will be short lived. He wants to step on too many toes. I predict the first to turn on him will be his billionaire buddies. You see, he's not really one of them, they know it, he knows it.

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Fascism always starts like this. First they came for the transgenders...Eventually, fascism always fails

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Crossing my fingers.

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The GOP are Suck RACIST AND Fascist PIG and terrorist.

The GOP are ones who are predators on children and rapist of women

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The GOP is always looking for ways to be pedos without limits. Not that that stopped guys like Gaetz before.

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60 votes needed to break a filibuster

Not for long. You heard it here first.

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Agree. It’s a matter of weeks before they rescind the rule.

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