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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 20, 2022

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 5:59 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, September 21, 2022, at 10 a.m…

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Bill Foster
@billfoster· Democratic · IL· Sep 20, 2022

We have enough money to fix this in this country, and it is to our shame that we don't.

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Bill Foster
@billfoster· Democratic · IL· Sep 20, 2022

It is called immigration reform. And there are hordes of very competent, well-trained nurses around the world.

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Bill Foster
@billfoster· Democratic · IL· Sep 20, 2022

And I also--I, too, lost my favorite aunt and my favorite uncle in a nursing home in the situation.

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Bill Foster
@billfoster· Democratic · IL· Sep 20, 2022

I'm amazed at how consistent that your industry is; when you come to us, it is almost always with some elaborate set of logic to try to convince us that you should be allowed to lever out more.

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Bill Foster
@billfoster· Democratic · IL· Sep 20, 2022

you all benefit from having the Federal Government and the Federal taxpayer as the insurer of last resort.

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Bill Foster
@billfoster· Democratic · IL· Sep 20, 2022

If we simply had--because we pay a lot more in Federal taxes than we get back in Federal spending.

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Bill Foster
@billfoster· Democratic · IL· Sep 20, 2022

I guess I'd like to start by apologizing on behalf of the U.S. Congress

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Bill Foster
@billfoster· Democratic · IL· Sep 19, 2022

Community relocation is very important in Alaska right now.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 19, 2022

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Illinois.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 19, 2022

2\1/2\ years ago, a native of my home State of Illinois and a veteran of the U.S. Navy, Mark Frerichs, was abducted by the Taliban or one of its affiliates in Afghanistan. He was working there as a contractor, and his disappearance was…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 19, 2022

I announce that the Senator from Wisconsin (Ms. Baldwin), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Warnock), and the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Wyden) are necessarily absent.

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Mike Bost
@mikebost· Republican · IL· Sep 19, 2022

In closing, I encourage all of my colleagues to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

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David Axelrod
@davidaxelrod· Democratic · IL· Sep 18, 2022

One is it is very early, as he said, to formally announce their legal reasons why you shouldn't there are political reasons why you want to put that kind of announcement off.

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David Axelrod
@davidaxelrod· Democratic · IL· Sep 18, 2022

If President Biden chooses not to run for election, what does that do to planning for Democratic presidential hopefuls?

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 17, 2022

It has to be asked, and it has to be part of our history.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 17, 2022

Unless and until we come together in a bipartisan fashion in the Senate particularly, and once again, entertain a comprehensive immigration bill, we are just inviting trouble.

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