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Month	Stories	All outlets
April 2026	3	2,576
May 2026	0	none collected
June 2026	0	none collected
July 2026	0	none collected
August 2026	0	1 (collection gap)
September 2026	0	598

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Republican100% · 3 pairs

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1John KennedyR3 stories · 100%

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Good Look: 2 (67%)
Mixed: 1 (33%)
Informational: 0 (0%)
Bad Look: 0 (0%)

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Kennedy on the devastation of Iran’s nuclear program: “The world is a much safer place today”

Watch Kennedy’s comments here. WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) explained why he believes the United States was right to strike Iran and halt its ability to develop a nuclear weapon in a speech on the U.S. Senate floor. Key excerpts of the speech are below. “I can tell you why I think we did the right thing by going into Iran. First of all, the people of Iran are wonderful people. I am not talking about the people; I am talking about their government, which is run by their Supreme Leader. Now, the old Supreme Leader is now as dead as Woodrow Wilson, but they have a new Supreme Leader. It is the son of the old Supreme Leader, and he is just as crazy as his daddy was.” . . . “They are trying to get a nuclear weapon. This isn’t like China having a nuclear weapon or Russia or India or Pakistan. Let me ask you a question. Would you give Charles Manson a nuclear weapon? That is what we are talking about here. Charles Manson is also as dead as Woodrow Wilson. But would you give a Charles Manson-type person a nuclear weapon? No. And that is why we can’t let the Supreme Leader and his minions in Iran have them.” . . . “We hit Iran so hard, they are coughing up bones: the public sector, but also the private sector today in Iran. It doesn’t give me any joy to say this. We had no choice. I don’t know how they are standing. They are held together with duct tape and spit. . . . But the fact of the matter is that if you think the theocracy run by the Government of Iran—the Charlie Manson—is dangerous to the world, and I do, then the world is a much safer place today, and that is just a fact. That is a fact. “It is going to be a long time before the Charlie Mansons can rebuild, and it is going to be a hell of a long time before the new Supreme Leader is going to get a nuclear weapon.” Watch Kennedy’s speech here.

Apr 16, 202615 votes

Kennedy talks One Big Beautiful Bill savings: “It is breathtaking in its scope and will be in its effect”

Watch Kennedy’s comments here. WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today explained how the One Big Beautiful Bill has helped return money to the American people’s pockets in a speech on the U.S. Senate floor. Key excerpts of the speech are below. “We passed a major piece of legislation that is just starting to take effect. It's going to impact every American. They came up with a new name for it because they didn't like the old name, but I kind of like the old name, so that's what I’m going to call it: the One Big Beautiful Bill. It is really breathtaking in its scope and will be in its effect. “We cut taxes. Right now—don't take my word for it—just pick up the phone and arbitrarily call some Americans who have filed their taxes. They're getting money back. The average tax refund, is up, like, 11%. The average American who normally gets a refund and who’s already filing is going to get an extra—what works out to be an extra—$250 to $300 a month, so that's going to help them deal with the higher prices. “We also extended the prior tax cuts from 2017 that were about to expire. We made them permanent. Anybody who voted against making them permanent wanted to raise your taxes by $4.3 trillion. We beat them back. “We increased the standard deduction. Whether you get a refund or not, you’re going to pay lower taxes because we increased the standard deduction. We gave Americans a larger child tax credit. We cut taxes for many Americans on Social Security. We cut taxes on tips. We cut taxes on overtime. We gave many Americans a deduction on the interest they pay for a car loan.” . . . “This is a major piece of legislation, and it’s taking effect now—and it’s not going to solve the problem completely, but it’s going to go a long way, because the best way to deal with inflation is to grow your way out of it.” Kennedy also highlighted how short housing supply has raised American families’ cost of living. He encouraged the U.S. House of Representatives to join the U.S. Senate in passing his Build Now Act to increase home supply and cut housing costs. “You don't have to be able to explain the law of special relativity to know that the cost of a home is breathtaking, or to know that rents have gone up. Why is that? Because of the lack of supply—duh. That's because of a lack of supply. “So, what do you do to make a . . . new home or used home more affordable? What do you do to make rents go down? You increase the supply. And that's what we’re trying to do. “I sit on the Banking Committee. We passed—the Senate has, twice—a housing bill. It's in front of the House of Representatives right now. I hope my friends in the House pass it. I'll tell you one of the things it will do: It will increase housing starts. If you don't think this works, just go read an article about what’s going on in Austin. They increased housing supply in Austin. You know, rents are dropping in Austin like a fat guy on a seesaw. They're going down. Why? Because they increased supply.” Watch Kennedy’s speech here.

Apr 15, 202617 votes

Kennedy reintroduces bill to prevent U.S. Export-Import Bank from backing tax-delinquent companies

WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Banking Committee, today reintroduced his bill to block the U.S. Export-Import (EXIM) Bank from giving loans to companies and individuals that are delinquent on repaying their tax debt. “It makes no sense for the government to lend hard-earned money to businesses that fail to even repay their tax debt. My bill would help root out waste, fraud and abuse, and make sure our Export-Import Bank isn’t subsidizing companies that don’t play by the rules,” said Kennedy. Background: The EXIM Bank currently requires every company applying for certain financing to self-certify that they do not have delinquent federal debt. However, a 2019 Government Accountability Office (GAO) analysis uncovered billions of dollars in EXIM transactions involving companies that may have fraudulently applied for financing. From 2014 through 2016, System for Award Management (SAM) data flagged 32 U.S.-based companies for delinquent federal debt in the same month their EXIM transactions were authorized, despite the companies’ self-certification that they were not delinquent. The GAO estimated that these transactions totaled $1.7 billion. Based on this information, the GAO and EXIM Bank agreed that the EXIM Bank should make use of available data to verify that companies do not have delinquent federal debt, rather than relying on the word of the companies that apply. Kennedy’s bill would accomplish this by empowering the EXIM Bank to use SAM data and data-analytical approaches to detect potential delinquency and work with the Internal Revenue Service to confirm its findings. Under Kennedy’s legislation, tax-delinquent companies would lose access to EXIM financing once delinquency is confirmed through SAM data and IRS consultation. The bill would also allow the President of the United States to waive this requirement if an entity’s work sufficiently affects U.S. interests. Debt being repaid in a timely manner is not considered to be seriously delinquent federal debt according to the bill. Full bill text is available here.

Apr 15, 202612 votes

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