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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Oct 3, 2025

Our house is on fire, and our firefighters are using their hoses to water the lawn outside.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Oct 1, 2025

On the Democratic side, we think this is a battle worth fighting.

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Oct 1, 2025

It's the exact message that he wants to send, which is you're not welcome here. They've been trying to basically push out any diversity in our military, which actually makes our military less capable, less ready to defend Americans.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2025

This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidation, instilling fear in our communities and hurting our businesses.

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Brandon Johnson
@brandonjohnson· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2025

While Chicagoans and visitors are enjoying another gorgeous Sunday, they are being intimidated by masked federal agents flaunting automatic weapons for no apparent reason.

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Delia Ramirez
@deliaramirez· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2025

We have to stand up for Dreamers and immigrants and protect our civil and constitutional rights.

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Delia Ramirez
@deliaramirez· Democratic · IL· Sep 29, 2025

As authoritarians, Trump, Noem, Miller, and the rest of the Administration are abusing their power to silence dissent.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 17, 2025

This seems like the reality of the situation. It is your money or your life is the Republican proposal. We are either going to have you pay $3,000 or more a month in premiums or you are going to have to gut it out and hope you don't get…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 17, 2025

Let me ask the Senator from Vermont his own personal experience. Mine was that last year, I decided to replace my knee--my football knee from high school--and my hip, same year. I started receiving these projected bills and how much I…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 17, 2025

Let me ask you this question: Since we have the continuing resolution being considered, which would go into effect September 30, if we agree on one, if you took care of this tax credit issue, you could spare that family in Wyoming from a…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 17, 2025

And they qualified for the Affordable Care Act health insurance, they currently can receive a subsidy to help with the payments based on their income.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 17, 2025

And you are saying the change in the big beautiful Trump budget by our Republican colleagues is going to result in an increase in monthly premiums in Wyoming of a person making $82,000 a year of $3,000 a month?

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 17, 2025

When you say it is just about to happen, is it the announcement of the premium or the actual imposition of the premium increase?

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Sep 17, 2025

I would like to ask, through the Chair, a basic question of my friend from Vermont. You have been involved in politics a few years. So have I. I am trying to understand if I were a Republican Senator who voted for this kind of premium…

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Sep 17, 2025

Those are all topics that we have to be able to discuss honestly and forthrightly, while we still insist that in that process of debate, we respect other people's right to say things that we profoundly disagree with.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Sep 17, 2025

There's been some confusion, I think, around this lately, and frankly, coming from the White House and some of the other positions of authority that suggest, even before we had determined who the perpetrator of this evil act was, that…

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