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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Oct 1, 2026

Our National Archives make it possible for families, researchers and communities across the Midwest to access records that tell the story of who we are and where we come from.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 30, 2026

There was nothing untoward about Special Counsel Smith and his fellow prosecutors conducting this investigation. The aspersions cast on Mr. Smith nonstop are petty, personal, and political.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 30, 2026

President Trump rolled out the red carpet for Xi. Rather than confronting China’s unfair trade practices, technology theft, complicity in attacks against our troops or economic and military aggression against our allies, President Trump…

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Sep 30, 2026

We will compete successfully with China only through sustained investment in our own strengths, close coordination with allies and an unwavering defense of our democratic values.

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Sep 30, 2026

The American people deserve leaders who fight for their financial security and defend our national interests with purpose and measured strategy, not pageantry.

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Sep 30, 2026

Diplomacy with China remains vital to preventing conflict and protecting American interests, but it must ultimately produce results for hardworking Americans.

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Sep 30, 2026

No Presidential pet project should receive greater urgency than protecting the people who fly through the National Capital Region every day.

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Sep 30, 2026

The Trump Administration’s failure to faithfully and urgently implement NTSB’s recommendations is compounded by FAA and DoD wasting finite time and attention to stroke President Trump’s fragile ego by focusing efforts on approvals for the…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

Let me be clear: there was nothing untoward about special counsel Smith and his fellow prosecutors conducting this investigation.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

Over the past 20 months, Republicans have continuously bent the knee, kissed the ring, and handed Donald Trump more power and authority on a silver platter.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

For Donald Trump, billion-dollar ballrooms are full speed ahead. Money for schools—cut.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

This move is an illegal power grab by the Trump Administration—plain and simple.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

We write to call on you to abandon any plan to exert political control over NIH’s grant-making decisions.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

Congress must step in to establish guardrails to protect American biomedical science.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

Injecting political interference into the NIH grantmaking process will irreparably harm America’s biomedical research enterprise, override scientific expertise, and potentially set back lifesaving medical breakthroughs by decades.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

Decisions about which National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants to fund should be guided only by science, and what research is most likely to advance new treatments and cures, or the next breakthrough to save or improve a…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

It’s about time, and in fact it is well past time, for this Committee, the Judiciary Committee, to move on from and stop spreading political rumors and get down to the truth.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2026

If this hearing was really about getting answers, Committee Republicans would be doing everything they could to obtain a copy of Volume II and urge the Department of Justice to allow Smith to discuss his investigation.

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