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Covering politics and policy from the Midwest. Newsroom for @WCPT820.
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    Aug 4, 2022
    IN state Rep. Bartlett (D) introduces an amendment to the anti-abortion bill to outlaw erectile dysfunction drugs: "We're forcing young girls to be mothers, but not forcing the men to be fathers ... If an unwanted pregnancy is an act of God, then impotency must be an act of God."
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    Jan 28, 2025
    Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (DFL) speaks about the Trump grant freeze crisis: “While he was out golfing, he threw the country into crisis. This is not bold. It's not leadership. It's stupid, buffoonish, childish of exactly what they did."
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    Sep 10, 2025
    Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."
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    May 18, 2023
    NE State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan (R) complains filibusters of anti-trans bills made her miss her grandson's preschool graduation. Sen. Megan Hunt (I): “You won't come off this bill that hurts my [trans] son. You hate him more than you love your own family. That's why you're here."
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    Aug 16, 2023
    Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (DFL) explains why he rejected Republican lawmakers' attempts to means-test school meals for K-12 students: "The haves and the have-nots in the school lunchroom is not a necessary thing. Just feed our children."
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    Jan 3, 2025
    While taking pictures after Sen. Dave McCormick’s (R-PA) ceremonial swearing in, one of his daughters appears to tell Vice President Kamala Harris "I voted for you." Harris responds: "I could tell."
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    Oct 14, 2022
    Moderators closed tonight's Wisconsin Senate debate by asking each candidate to say something they find admirable about the other. Lt. Gov Mandela Barnes (D) said Sen. Ron Johnson (R) is a "family man." Johnson said Barnes is "against America." The audience booed Johnson.
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    Oct 15, 2024
    DONALD TRUMP: "You tend to put [Supreme Court justices] in young. Only stupid people put old. You don’t put old in." JOHN MICKLETHWAIT: "You’re a 78-year-old man running for president."
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    Sep 13, 2022
    President Biden slams Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): "You paid for your Social Security. Every single paycheck from the time you were a kid ... Then along comes Ron Johnson from Wisconsin ... He wants to put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block every single year."
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    Aug 5, 2025
    CBS NEWS REPORTER: "You know that Republicans in the state, Republicans out of the state, look at what you guys are doing and thinking you're running away from the fight..." TEXAS STATE REP. ANN JOHNSON (D-HOUSTON): "Yeah, no, abandoning your job is going to Cancun in the middle
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    Nov 5, 2025
    After ICE agents raided a Chicago day care Wednesday morning and arrested a teacher that has citizenship documents, Alderperson Andre Vasquez says the city doesn't have time to wait for elections to fix the Trump administration's chaos and calls for Chicagoans to act now. "We're
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    Mar 6, 2023
    MO State Rep. Phil Christofanelli (R) criticizes fellow GOP Rep. Ann Kelley's anti-LGBT school bill. PC: Who is Martha Washington? AK: [George Washington's] wife. PC: With your bill, how could that be mentioned in the classroom? AK: That's not sexual orientation. PC: Really?
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    Oct 10, 2025
    U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility: "Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."
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    Jul 25, 2024
    Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) slams JD Vance for denigrating voters: “My God, they went after ‘cat people,’ good luck with that! Turn on the internet and see what cat people do when you go after ‘em.” “It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.”
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