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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 28, 2026

How many times have I heard my Republican colleagues say, ‘I’m not against immigration. I’m against illegal immigration.’ Really? If you eliminate the legal process where an individual seeking status in America can assert their rights…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 28, 2026

I look forward to working with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to hold President Trump to the same standard they held President Obama to 11 years ago.

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Jun 27, 2026

The brave Artemis II crew broke new frontiers for space exploration and proved to the next generation of young scientists that anything is possible.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 26, 2026

I hope they’ll join us in a bipartisan effort to give American families real relief.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 26, 2026

To reinterpret the Fourteenth Amendment—ratified to ensure that no one born on this soil could ever be defined as less than fully American.

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Jun 26, 2026

It’s one of the worst deals ever made—and I’ll use every tool at my disposal to ensure not another cent goes toward Trump’s failed war.

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Jun 26, 2026

But there can be no other interpretation: Iran won, Trump caved and the American people lost.

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Brad Schneider
@bradschneider· Democratic · IL· Jun 26, 2026

This July 4th marks four years since Katherine Goldstein, Irina and Kevin McCarthy, Jacquelyn Sundheim, Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, Stephen Straus, and Eduardo Uvaldo were murdered in a senseless act of gun violence.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 26, 2026

What happened in 2022, as families in Highland Park gathered to celebrate the Fourth of July, was an atrocity.

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Jun 26, 2026

When families gathered in Highland Park to observe the Fourth of July four years ago, they were there to celebrate America at its best—and instead, they saw our country at its worst.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 26, 2026

Blue slips are an important part of the Senate’s constitutional duty of advice and consent.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 26, 2026

Mr. Blanche has treated the Justice Department like a criminal defense firm whose sole client is President Trump.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 26, 2026

Throughout his tenure at the Justice Department, Mr. Blanche has used the Department as a shield to protect the President and his MAGA allies and as a sword to attack his political opponents.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 26, 2026

The next time this Committee meets, it will be to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche to be Attorney General of the United States.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 26, 2026

But the fight is not over. I, along with my Democratic colleagues, will continue to push back against harmful partisan policies that put women’s health and autonomy at risk.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 26, 2026

It is astonishing that in America today, women have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers did.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 26, 2026

Today marks four years since the Supreme Court erased the constitutional right to abortion—a right that Americans had relied on for nearly five decades.

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