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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 12, 2023

We want our schools and libraries to be open and welcoming settings for education, not cultural battlefields.

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger· Republican · IL· Sep 12, 2023

Democrats have every right to fight fire with fire, but please don't because you right now are the adults trying to hold democracy together.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 12, 2023

We want our schools and libraries to be open and welcoming settings for education, not cultural battlefields.

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger· Republican · IL· Sep 12, 2023

So yes, the train is out of the station. They're going to have to try to impeach Joe Biden, regardless of what they come up with.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 12, 2023

We need to work together as a country to try to create clear standards for access to books.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 12, 2023

We now consider 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' to be, in the words of the Library of Congress, a timeless American classic.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 12, 2023

for nearly three decades, the crack of the bat, the smell of fresh cut grass, the greening of the ivy, and the sound of Pat Hughes' voice reporting from the ``beautiful and historic Wrigley Field'' has let Cubs fans far and wide know, it…

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Delia Ramirez
@deliaramirez· Democratic · IL· Sep 12, 2023

We should not stand for this blatant power play, nor allow it to be used as leverage to threaten our country with a Republican government shutdown.

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Delia Ramirez
@deliaramirez· Democratic · IL· Sep 12, 2023

No child should die in the water or be separated from their family, citizen or non-citizen.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 12, 2023

there are lines that cannot be crossed. Violence is one of those lines. Humiliation is one of those lines.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 12, 2023

I could not be more proud of this legislation, and I implore everyone in this room to please, please be on the right side of history and push back against these book bans in every and any way possible.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 12, 2023

This issue should have nothing to do with political party. This isn't a Republican or Democrat issue.

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Bill Foster
@billfoster· Democratic · IL· Sep 12, 2023

the American who sells that land gets to put that money in the bank or into other investments that will grow the U.S. economy.

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Mike Bost
@mikebost· Republican · IL· Sep 12, 2023

My big concern is, is that the only ones who will have access are the mega trucking companies and/or those that can make the major investments and that it will strangle the small trucking companies out of business.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 12, 2023

In 1928, the City of Chicago banned a book, known as 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,' from all of its public libraries.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 12, 2023

In the 1850s, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' the classic antislavery novel, was banned throughout the Southern United States.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 11, 2023

This meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee will come to order.

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