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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Apr 28, 2025

Overall, these responses, which are under oath, leave me with even more questions and further underscore the need to hear live testimony from Ed Martin at a hearing.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Apr 28, 2025

I don’t think [Trump] is ideological. I think ultimately he is pragmatic.

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Janice Schakowsky
@janiceschakowsky· Democratic · IL· Apr 28, 2025

I thank Frank Pallone for his support and leadership. Gus Bilirakis and I have been working for over 2 years now on this piece of legislation that is going to bring such delight and security for artists and for consumers who really want to…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Apr 28, 2025

Mr. Martin makes a number of false statements that are easily debunked and dodges at least 80 questions outright.

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Apr 28, 2025

I ask unanimous consent that the scheduled vote begin immediately. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

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Mike Quigley
@mikequigley· Democratic · IL· Apr 28, 2025

We want peace. Ukraine desperately wants peace but not as a result of what would be in effect a Putin-Russia victory. We want peace and not appeasement that would reward a brutal Russian invasion with land gains that officially recognize…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Apr 28, 2025

my grandparents and my mother and her two siblings immigrated to the United States from Lithuania in the year 1911. They came over on a ship from Germany to Baltimore and found their way to the city of my birth, East St. Louis, IL. There…

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Apr 27, 2025

I’m blasting Democratic politicians for embracing a culture of incrementalism.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Apr 27, 2025

If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this: It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Apr 27, 2025

What I find ironic about the current conversation surrounding our party is that the voices flocking to podcasts and cable news shows to admonish fellow Democrats for not caring enough about the struggles of working families are the same…

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Apr 27, 2025

listening to a bunch of do-nothing political types who would tell us that America’s house is not on fire, even as the flames are licking their faces.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Apr 27, 2025

These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace. They must understand that we will fight their cruelty...

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Apr 27, 2025

We’re going to hold people responsible. They can’t just get away with what they’re doing right now.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Apr 27, 2025

Fellow Democrats, for far too long we’ve been guilty of listening to a bunch of do-nothing political types...

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Apr 27, 2025

Today, as the blaze reaches the rafters, the pundits and politicians — whose simpering timidity served as kindle for the arsonists — urge us now not to reach for a hose.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Apr 27, 2025

Voters didn’t turn out for Democrats last November not because they don’t want us to fight for our values, but because they think we don’t want to fight for our values.

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