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Thank you to Brent and Jane for welcoming me to your farm, and to all the farmers who took the time to share what’s happening in Minnesota. I am grateful for this chance to listen and promise to bring your stories back with me to Washington.

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Visiting with farmers in Lamberton today and their message was clear. Producers need stability and consistency so they can plan for the next season, not more chaotic trade wars and price hikes due to the war in Iran.

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We needed a comprehensive agreement with China to a mutual slowdown of AI development. Instead, we get nothing.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 24/09/2026

Trusting the same DOJ that covered up the Epstein Files to protect us from frontier AI… What could possibly go wrong?

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The average age of a first-time homebuyer has never been higher (40 years old). This is only going to make things worse.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 24/09/2026

Lots of ways to finally help young people afford their first home. 7% mortgage rates (and climbing) thanks to another endless war in the Middle East is not one of them.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 23/09/2026

The problem for farmers isn’t just that diesel prices are high. It’s that diesel prices are high RIGHT BEFORE harvest season.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 22/09/2026

Farmers can’t withstand a President who could care less about the rising diesel prices.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 22/09/2026

It’s not just a question of how long farmers can hunker down and endure high diesel prices. It’s a question of how many farms will go under because it’s just too much.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 19/09/2026

There is one thing we should be clear-eyed about right now: AI developers aren’t above the laws we have currently on the books. They can and should be prosecuted and held liable if they break the law and their products harm us.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 18/09/2026

These AI companies cannot be trusted to regulate themselves. Don’t let the fox guard the henhouse.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 16/09/2026

$2.8B dollars could go a long way to helping people here at home instead of furthering Israel’s atrocities.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 16/09/2026

Not to mention Netanyahu routinely blocks the United States from seeking justice for our own citizens killed by Israeli settlers in the West Bank. We’ll work to block this weapons sale, but the Administration will like use emergency authority to bypass accountability in Congress.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 16/09/2026

The United States has no business sending Netanyahu billions of dollars’ worth of bombs after his record of indiscriminate violence against Palestinian civilians, including children.

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The President and his party want to let Big Tech write their own rules. While he’s blocked any effort to rein in AI in Congress, that doesn’t mean there aren’t laws on the books we can use to protect people right now.

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These big AI companies should be held civilly and/or criminally liable and prosecuted when their models hurt people. They don’t get a free pass just because they’ve now decided to admit to the dangers of what they’ve created.

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We certainly need real crypto regulations that are much stronger than the CLARITY Act. But there seem to be bigger fish to fry right now!

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the FIRST thing Republicans made us work on is a crypto bill that benefits the industry that spent tens of millions of dollars bankrolling them in the last election.

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We just spent a month outside of the DC bubble and instead of coming back to address any of the concerns we heard back home (gas prices, Iran, data centers)

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Trump’s EPA will let power plants emit more lead, mercury and other chemicals into the air to be breathed in by you and your kids because he’ll do just about anything to help out the fossil fuel companies that funded his campaign

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Fossil fuel donors run the Republican Party. Now they also run the EPA.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 14/09/2026

Unsurprising that Republicans are giving corporations (most of whom donated to their campaigns) the greenlight to pollute our air.

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Just another chilling reminder of just how fundamentally broken ICE is.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 14/09/2026

If it looks like a cage and acts as a cage… it’s a cage. Calling these “calming areas” at Alligator Alcatraz is some dystopian doublespeak.

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Apple Tree, thanks for having me today and for all you do to provide quality, accessible, and affordable dental care to Minnesotans in rural communities.

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Minnesotans just want to see a dentist. They shouldn’t have to take hours out of their day to find one that accepts their insurance.

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But after that many patients over the course of 30 years, the clinic needed upgrades and more space to keep up with that demand. So, we secured $3.7 million of federal funding for the clinic upgrades and expansion.

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Apple Tree Dental in Hawley, Minnesota has provided more than 353,000 dental visits to more than 35,000 patients across the Northland. They’ve often been the only provider in the area willing to see patients on Medicaid.

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Minnesotans just want to see a dentist. They shouldn’t have to take hours out of their day to find one that accepts their insurance.

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Looking forward to the day when the orange cones move out and traffic flows freely!

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We’re eliminating two of these cumbersome railroad crossings by building overpasses, largely paid for thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law I helped pass in 2021. It’ll make getting around Moorhead safer and more efficient for everybody.

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Sometimes, they only delay you on your way to and from work and school. Other times, they block first responders and emergency vehicles at moments when every minute counts. But that’s finally changing.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 01/09/2026

Anyone who has lived or driven around Moorhead knows the train crossings along 11th Street can be a giant headache.

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2025: 1,180 cases of cyclosporiasis 2026: 17,180 cases of cyclosporiasis Cutting research into the parasite causing the outbreak is akin to burying our heads in the sand and hoping this whole thing goes away.

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It was great to be in Duluth today and thank you to everyone who was there to celebrate!

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We’ve been pushing to replace the bridge for a LONG time, throughout most of my nearly nine years in the Senate. Today, we finally broke ground on a wider, safer, and sturdier Blatnik Bridge.

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The Blatnik Bridge between Duluth and Superior has reached the end of its useful life after serving us for 65 years. By 2030, it will have been deemed unsafe and decommissioned. But the bridge is the linchpin that connects the bustling, proud cities that make up the Twin Ports.

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