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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 12, 2022

These reported claims indicate astonishing and unacceptable deviations from the department`s mission to pursue impartial justice which requires that its prosecutorial decisions be free from political influence.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 8, 2022

today, the Senate will vote to confirm Andre Mathis to serve on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Mathis is an outstanding nominee with extensive litigation experience and deep ties to the Tennessee legal community. Over the years…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 8, 2022

I have two request for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority Leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 8, 2022

I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters), and the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Rosen) are necessarily absent.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 8, 2022

Socialism. This is all about socialism. I listened very carefully to my friend from Texas, and he is my friend--we work together on many things--and he believes the downfall of America is the advent of socialism. Well, I am not sure what…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 7, 2022

I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), and the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Rosen) are necessarily absent.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 7, 2022

October 4, 1957. Many in the Chamber were not alive at that date. I was. I was a teenager, maybe in high school, just starting, or at the end of grade school. But it was a big day in the history of the world, October 4, 1957, because at…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 7, 2022

I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 4792 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Sep 7, 2022

I’ve always described the presidency as a relay race. You take the baton from someone, you run your leg as hard and as well as you can, and then you hand it off to someone else, knowing that your work will be incomplete.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Sep 7, 2022

Thanks to your decency, and thanks to your strength. Maybe most of all, thanks to your faith in our democracy, and the American people. The country is better off than when you took office. And we should all be deeply grateful for them.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Sep 7, 2022

Thanks to your decency and thanks to your strength -- maybe most of all, thanks to your faith in our democracy and the American people, the country is better off than when you took office.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Sep 6, 2022

I want to thank Sharon Sprung for capturing everything I love about Michelle, her grace, her intelligence, and the fact that she`s fine.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Sep 6, 2022

I've always described the Presidency as a relay race. You take the baton from someone, you run your leg as hard and as well as you can, and then you hand it off to someone else.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 6, 2022

Good news to report to my colleague from the Commonwealth of Kentucky: a gallon of gasoline on the way to the airport this morning--$3.46 a gallon. I wish it were lower, but we have made progress from the days when it was over $5. We are…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 6, 2022

I announce that the Senator from Illinois (Ms. Duckworth), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Ossoff), the Senator from Nevada (Ms. Rosen), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily…

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Sep 6, 2022

Maybe most of all, thanks to your faith in our democracy and the American people, the country is better off than when you took office, and we should all be deeply grateful for that.

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