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Mary E Miller
@maryemiller· Republican · IL· Jul 8, 2025

An unelected judge has no authority to override the will of 77 MILLION Americans who voted to defund Planned Parenthood.

breitbart.com
Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Jul 8, 2025

He's not qualified for the job, just by nature of the fact that he participated in this Signal chain.

cbsnews.com
Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jul 4, 2025

I am the president of all Americans, including those who did not vote for me. I have to consider what’s best for them, even the ones who don’t like me.

motherjones.com
Sean Casten
@seancasten· Democratic · IL· Jul 3, 2025

A functioning House leadership team would work the members, make changes as necessary and bring this bill to the floor once they knew they could pass it.

msnbc.com
Danny Davis
@dannydavis· Democratic · IL· Jul 2, 2025

I rise in strong opposition and can never vote for this big, bad, inhumane, and ugly bill because it will wreck healthcare delivery. It takes food from hungry children. It sentences seniors to early deaths. It eliminates jobs and…

govinfo.gov
Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jul 1, 2025

Gutting USAID is a travesty, and it’s a tragedy. Because it’s some of the most important work happening anywhere in the world.

huffpost.com
Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jun 30, 2025

Gutting USAID is a travesty, and it's a tragedy. Because it's some of the most important work happening anywhere in the world.

newsweek.com
Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 30, 2025

Republicans just struck down an amendment to protect our rural hospitals from being forced to close or reduce their services.

newsweek.com
Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 28, 2025

Senator Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico and Senator Peter Welch of Vermont support the motion to commit bill H.R. 1 to the Committee on Finance of the Senate and eliminate provisions that would cut Medicaid payments to rural hospitals in…

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Chuy Garcia
@chuygarcia· IL· Jun 26, 2025

I rise today to honor Brian Johnson, CEO of Equality Illinois, who will be ending his tenure at the end of this month. For nearly a decade, Brian has been a driving force behind the rapid growth and rise of Equality Illinois, turning it…

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Jun 25, 2025

The workers of today and tomorrow choose Illinois because we built an iron wall around their freedoms.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Jun 24, 2025

Not only speak to Mr. Bove's failure to fulfill his ethical obligations as a lawyer, but demonstrate that his activities are part of a broader pattern by President Trump and his allies to undermine the Justice Department's commitment to…

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Sean Casten
@seancasten· Democratic · IL· Jun 23, 2025

No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the U.S. without the approval of Congress.

commondreams.org
Sean Casten
@seancasten· Democratic · IL· Jun 22, 2025

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Jun 22, 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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