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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jun 19, 2026

That's what I hope every visitor to this center takes away from their experience.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jun 19, 2026

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jun 19, 2026

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jun 19, 2026

The success of this experiment was never a given.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jun 19, 2026

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jun 19, 2026

America is currently experiencing anger and vision but we are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jun 19, 2026

She knew she was going to mess me up, and she did it anyway.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jun 18, 2026

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger· Republican · IL· Jun 18, 2026

I think it's very obvious that the president didn't do anything but gleefully watch television while this was going down.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 18, 2026

The state, local, and rail partners are aligned, and we ask that USDOT and FRA meet this long-awaited moment by extending the remaining federal funding to finally bring the project to fruition.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 18, 2026

For the first time since USDOT and FRA first awarded the project $177M in federal funding in Fiscal Year 2010, it is ready to proceed, and we cannot squander this opportunity.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 18, 2026

For too long, Section 702 has jeopardized these protections, but we have a chance to end that abuse now. Let’s not wait any longer. Congress should reauthorize Section 702 with sensible reforms and finally put an end to the…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 18, 2026

Section 702 must not be linked to President Trump’s efforts to suppress the vote. Instead, Congress should reauthorize it with reasonable reforms, bipartisan reforms, that protect our national security and safeguard Americans’…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 18, 2026

But if my colleagues want to reauthorize Section 702 quickly, there is a simple solution… support these commonsense, bipartisan reforms supported by a majority of Americans incidentally to prevent Section 702 from being used to violate…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 18, 2026

Section 702 enables surveillance of more than just foreigners overseas—millions of innocent Americans’ texts, emails, and phone calls are swept up in this dragnet if they communicated with a foreigner…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 18, 2026

If you eliminate the legal process where an individual seeking status in America can assert their rights under the law, it seems to me you already pre-judged the case.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 18, 2026

I urge my colleagues to reject this attempt to gut due process in our immigration court system and vote in support of this resolution.

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