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We will continue to look for innovative solutions to combat the climate crisis, grow our economy, and leave behind a healthier world for our children.
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Combat
Solutions
Healthier
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When I was sworn into office, I took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and I take that responsibility very seriously.
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Constitution Of The United States
Oath
Office
Protect
Responsibility
States
Defend
Seriously
Sworn
Took
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Growing up with a parent in the army, I saw firsthand the challenges our service members face when transitioning to new jobs after time in the military.
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Time Face Challenges
Firsthand
New Jobs
Transitioning
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I didn't get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.
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Expensive
Martial Arts
Single Mom
Martial
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Affordable health care that protects people with pre-existing conditions is a priority for Kansans, and it's been one of my top priorities since taking office.
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Affordable
Affordable Health Care
Conditions
Health People Care
Health Care People
Protects
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There are so many veterans in Kansas with the entrepreneurial skills it takes to run a small business, and we must do a better job at setting them up for success.
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Entrepreneurial
Setting
Small Business
Better Job
Veterans
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We know that Congress must find ways to reduce the cost of health insurance, including premiums and out-of-pocket costs, as well as to lower the actual costs of health care.
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Health Insurance
Insurance
Lower
Reduce
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I just think it's really important that we don't put people in a position where they're trying to decide between their health and wellbeing and their fundamental right to vote.
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Wellbeing
Health People Important
Fundamental Right
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I had always considered myself a martial artist who fights rather than a fighter who learned martial arts - although I probably flowed between those two categories over the years.
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Categories
Martial Arts
Martial
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Access to capital is one of the most important first steps entrepreneurs take when starting a business, and it is also one of the biggest difficulties, especially for our veterans.
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Steps
Difficulties
Entrepreneurs
Veterans
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The Postal Service is critical to our economy, our seniors and veterans who count on lifesaving medications, our small businesses that need to ship their products, and even to our democracy.
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Critical
Democracy
Economy
Postal Service
Products
Businesses
Count
Small
Medications
Postal
Seniors
Service
Small Businesses
Veterans
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It's an honor to be recognized by the U.S. Chamber for my work to advance pro-growth policies that will help move our community forward, particularly in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Chamber
Our Community
Advance
Pandemic
Recognized
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The Justice in Policing Act would enact comprehensive reforms to law enforcement that would improve police training and practices, while increasing much-needed transparency and accountability.
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Accountability
Enforcement
Law Enforcement
Transparency
Enact
Increasing
Reforms
Policing
Practices
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Native women and girls experience violence at far higher rates than any other female population in the country - a crisis that has devastated our communities and has been neglected for too long.
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Devastated
Native
Neglected
Population
Rates
Women And Girls
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You have to build relationships and learn what are the things that are of interest to other members of Congress, what are the things that folks have been taking a lead on for a really long time.
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Time Long Long Time
Really Long Time
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Especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately impacted tribal communities, we must invest in infrastructure in order to advance economic recovery and create much-needed jobs.
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Jobs
Economic
Economic Recovery
Infrastructure
Order
Recovery
Advance
Invest
Communities
Disproportionately
Impacted
Pandemic
Tribal
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The discipline it takes to train and push past discomfort and continually grow through both trial and error and critique are things that translate really well into the process of running for office.
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Critique
Discipline
Translate
Trial And Error
Continually
Error
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The Kansas City VA is an essential resource for thousands of veterans across Kansas and Missouri, and it should be a place where they can receive medical care and services without fear of discrimination.
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Discrimination
Medical Care
Missouri
Receive
Resource
Va
Veterans
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In terms of career options, I didn't think about MMA at all. I don't know if I really thought it was a career path for many women. For someone like me, even in my prime, it wasn't something I really considered.
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Career Path
Mma
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The INVEST in America Act will make critical, long over-due investments in tribal infrastructure - something I've been pushing for since I first began serving on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
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Infrastructure
Pushing
Serving
Transportation
Invest
Committee
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The Stonewall uprising was a day when brave individuals took to the streets to fight back against harassment and hate, and by doing so, helped to push the long history of LGBTQ activism into a nationwide movement.
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Activism
Brave
Harassment
Movement
Streets
Uprising
Fight
Helped
Individuals
Long History
Nationwide
Push
Took
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In Kansas, we are uniquely positioned to capitalize on renewable energy, as our region has some of the highest wind production potential in the world, to create good-paying jobs while growing our clean energy economy.
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Clean Energy
Renewable Energy
Wind
World Energy Renewable Energy
Capitalize
Good-Paying
Region
Renewable
Uniquely
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Students take out loans with the expectation that they will receive an education that sets them up for success - yet too many students are left with enormous debt from predatory institutions and no education to show for it.
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Debt
Enormous
Institutions
Predatory
Expectation
Loans
Receive
Sets
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People in Kansas and across the country are feeling the impacts of coronavirus both on their health and on their economic security. The CARES Act, which I voted for, is one small part of helping get them the relief they need.
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Economic Security
Relief
Cares
Impacts
Small Part
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Over the course of six amateur fights and two professional fights I learned a lot about how to get things done, how to pick myself up after disappointment, how to work through frustration and how to process moments of success.
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Disappointment
Frustration
Success Work Myself
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The Department of Justice must be nonpartisan and uphold the rule of law. Likewise, the leader of that department - the Attorney General - must always be independent and focused on doing the right thing, regardless of the politics.
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Attorney
Department
Doing The Right Thing
Right Thing
Rule Of Law
Attorney General
Department Of Justice
Likewise
The Right Thing
Uphold
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Masks. Test Supplies. Ventilators. Gloves. Gowns. These are the most critical tools that our doctors, nurses and other first responders on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic need to continue their tireless work and save lives.
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Critical
Doctors
Gloves
Supplies
Tools
Continue
Front
Front Line
Line
Masks
Nurses
Pandemic
Responders
Save
Test
Tireless
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Every year, thousands of immigrants, asylum seekers and migrants assume great hardships to find safety in America. They choose our country because they see the United States as a land of justice, as a place of safety, and a beacon of hope.
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America
Country
Immigrants
Land
Safety
Seekers
States
United
United States
Assume
Asylum
Beacon
Year
Choose
Find
Hardships
Place
Thousands
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I have a talent for coming up with an analogy about martial arts training for everything. It's because training to improve your martial arts skills and training to step into a cage and fight another person teaches you a lot about... everything.
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Martial Arts
Analogy
Cage
Martial
Teaches
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I've been a vocal advocate for Medicaid expansion, which is why I co-sponsored legislation to incentivize states like Kansas to expand Medicaid by starting the amount the federal government matches state's investment for expansion at 100 percent.
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Federal Government
Legislation
Medicaid
Vocal
Advocate
Expand
Matches
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I agree with the overwhelming majority of scientists who recognize that climate change is real, and it's essential that our country honors its commitment to work with the rest of the world to cut carbon pollution and address this crisis together.
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Carbon
Climate Change
Overwhelming
Pollution
Change Work Together
Honors
Scientists
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If we're going to tackle the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs, along with so many other issues that are at the top of our community's mind, we need to reform our system and make it work for the people, not special interests and corporations.
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Corporations
Prescription Drugs
Special Interests
For The People
Prescription
Skyrocketing
Tackle
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As a first-generation college student who worked my way through community college on to Cornell Law, having health insurance was not a top priority when I was starting out. I was buried in student loan debt and worried about simply making ends meet.
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Buried
Community College
Loan
College Student
Health Insurance
Insurance
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Whether it's a mom worrying about affording insulin for her children or a cancer patient fearing bankruptcy due the price of his life-saving medications, the number one issue Kansans talk to me about is the cost of health care and prescription drugs.
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Bankruptcy
Insulin
Life Saving
Patient
Prescription Drugs
Due
Fearing
Medications
Prescription
Worrying
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Turning away women and children in grave danger; warehousing children in cages; deporting people whom we promised to protect - these actions are not reflective of the America I want to live in. They do not represent the values our country claims to hold.
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Claims
Danger
Actions
Women People Live
Turning
Represent
Grave
Hold
Promised
Reflective
Whom
Women And Children
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It wasn't until I was injured at the gym - resulting in an emergency room visit and bill of $4,000 - that I realized the cost of forgoing health insurance. I was fine, but it took me more than a year to pay off that bill. That hurt worse than the injury itself.
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Emergency Room
Injured
Emergency
Health Insurance
Insurance
Resulting
Visit
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To my supporters: you knocked on doors, made phone calls, donated what you could, and got your friends, neighbors, and family members to the polls. I am eternally grateful for your confidence in me and will work to earn your trust day in and day out in Congress.
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Family Members
Phone Calls
Polls
Trust Family Work
Calls
Donated
Earn
Eternally
Neighbors
Supporters
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I think that it's a mistake to assume that because you're taking a position from somebody else who you might disagree with - or you know you disagree with on some things - to assume that you disagree with on everything and to not look at each policy on its own merits.
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Disagree
Assume
Merits
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Entrepreneurship is baked into the DNA of the Kansas Third District, and I'm proud to work with my colleagues in both parties to make sure our local businesses have the tools they need to take care of their employees, grow their companies, and contribute to our economy.
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Colleagues
Dna
Entrepreneurship
Take Care
Tools
Baked
Both Parties
Businesses
District
Companies
Contribute
Employees
Local
Parties
Third
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Folks in our community have a lot of daily pressures to deal with. Worrying about the rising cost of lifesaving medications shouldn't be one of them. They deserve elected leaders who will fight for them, not special interests, and that is exactly what I will continue to do.
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Our Community
Special Interests
Exactly What
Medications
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Our asylum laws were written to protect victims fleeing persecution in their home countries. By limiting the scope of these laws and refusing to acknowledge gang violence or domestic violence as a valid reason to seek asylum, we are turning away women and children in grave danger.
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Acknowledge
Danger
Fleeing
Gang
Gang Violence
Persecution
Scope
Asylum
Women Home Children
Domestic
Grave
Limiting
Refusing
Valid
Victims
Women And Children
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I worked diligently alongside our labor community to ensure that the priorities of our community were reflected in the USMCA, helping to secure strong enforcement mechanisms, protections for workers and the environment, and provisions to lower the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs.
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Enforcement
Labor
Our Community
Prescription Drugs
Secure
Alongside
Diligently
Ensure
Mechanisms
Prescription
Provisions
Reflected
Skyrocketing
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Communities do need police, but law enforcement needs to be much more transparent and held accountable for their actions. We also need increased resources for mental health services, affordable housing, education, jobs training, and much more to truly address social and economic issues in our communities.
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Affordable
Affordable Housing
Enforcement
Health Services
Housing
Law Enforcement
Mental Health
Transparent
Accountable
Address
Increased
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For small businesses in Kansas and across the country, the coronavirus has the potential to cause devastating financial hardship that would have a ripple effect throughout our economy. These businesses make up the backbone of our communities, and we have to ensure they are properly supported and protected.
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Hardship
Ripple
Devastating
Ensure
Make Up
Properly
Small Businesses
Supported
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To go from hit-and-miss promotions barely taking women's fighting seriously to women headlining on a regular basis, high-level fights, it's an amazing thing to see. And it happened in what I felt was a pretty quick succession - though not fast enough - as far as professional sports go. It's really exciting.
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Professional Sports
Succession
Amazing Thing
Barely
Promotions
Quick
Regular Basis
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The Paycheck Protection Program has been vital to helping our small businesses and workers weather the coronavirus pandemic. Yet this program has operated with little oversight, and we've seen Kansas small businesses owners struggle to access relief while large corporations with deep pockets have no problem.
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Corporations
No Problem
Oversight
Owners
Pockets
Protection
Relief
Weather
Operated
Pandemic
Paycheck
Small Businesses
Vital
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The first lesson in truly learning how to throw a punch is so frustrating, so frustrating. Especially if you fancy yourself athletic, that has to do with expectations and that is a different topic. The discomfort is realizing you thought you knew what throwing a punch meant and you just found out you don't even know how to stand.
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Discomfort
Fancy
Frustrating
Realizing
Throwing
Lesson
Punch
Topic
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If America is to be the land of opportunity and the beacon of hope that we claim, our immigration policies must be rooted in the fundamental principles of humanity. They must recognize, respect and honor the basic human rights of all people. And they must uphold the commitments we as a country have made to the international community.
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Basic Human Rights
Fundamental Principles
Honor
Human Rights
Humanity
Immigration
International
International Community
Principles
Rooted
All People
Basic
Beacon
Claim
Commitments
Fundamental
Policies
Recognize
Uphold
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