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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger· Republican · IL· Jul 28, 2022

It doesn't, and it's all new to me, too. We found out as a Committee, as you well know and reported about these missing texts not that long ago. We got a letter from the IG, we talked to him. We had no idea that it went as far back and you…

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger· Republican · IL· Jul 27, 2022

If we just washed this under the rug and say, you know, for the sake of the country, let`s put this aside, there is going to be somebody else, whether it`s Donald Trump in 2024, or somebody else somewhere down the line that recognizes that…

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Sean Casten
@seancasten· Democratic · IL· Jul 27, 2022

I missed Roll Call vote number 394. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on motion to move the previous question on H. Res. 1256. members recorded pursuant to house resolution 8, 117th congress Babin (Jackson) Bass (Neguse)…

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Mary E Miller
@maryemiller· Republican · IL· Jul 27, 2022

Americans are suffering through the Biden recession, struggling to afford gas and groceries, with inflation at historic highs. The working families that Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer promised to represent have been hurt the worst by their…

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jul 27, 2022

We are not going to make some of these changes, unless we change how business is done in Washington. The reason that we can’t negotiate for prescription drugs under the Medicare prescription drug plan is because the drug companies…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jul 27, 2022

at long last, it is official. Buck O'Neil and Minnie Minoso are finally where they deserve to be: in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. These two remarkable men, who were friends for decades, both started their careers in baseball's…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jul 27, 2022

yesterday, during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, I had a chance to share the story of this fallen hero from Chicago, IL. Her name is Ella French. Officer French joined the Chicago Police Department in 2018. A true public…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jul 27, 2022

it is not often one gets to experience and celebrate a living legend. But we have a chance today to do with a member of our Senate family. On February 27, 1984, an important part of the Senate community opened: the Senate Employees Child…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jul 26, 2022

I thought that the Republicans wanted to cut taxes, but when it comes to American families' health insurance, they want to raise taxes. Now, why? Well, there is one simple explanation: Barack Obama. You see, it was Barack Obama who came up…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jul 26, 2022

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Affordable Care Act

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jul 26, 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. 4624 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…

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Brad Schneider
@bradschneider· Democratic · IL· Jul 26, 2022

In less than a minute, he fired 83 shots from an AR-style Smith & Wesson M&P 15 semiautomatic rifle military and police--not hunting--military and police rifle, murdering seven and wounding dozens more.

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Brad Schneider
@bradschneider· Democratic · IL· Jul 26, 2022

I am not only here as a representative, but I am a resident of Highland Park, which as you know and we talked about it today, had a horrible mass shooting at the 4th of July parade.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jul 26, 2022

I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Leahy) and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin) are necessarily absent.

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Robin Kelly
@robinkelly· Democratic · IL· Jul 26, 2022

Since 1976, the gun industry has been exempt from oversight by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, despite over 45,000 Americans dying from gun-related injuries in 2020.

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger· Republican · IL· Jul 26, 2022

We never want to get to a position in a country where we prosecute last administrations, because that`s what failed republics, failed democracies do. But if a failed coup, and an obvious coup attempt, and a president that didn`t just…

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Robin Kelly
@robinkelly· Democratic · IL· Jul 26, 2022

Over 60 percent of crime guns come from out of state.

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