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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Feb 12, 2025

In any of these tasks … Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. would find himself unqualified, unfit, and dangerous to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Feb 12, 2025

Every day, federal health officials decide whether to approve new medications … initiate a recall over a contaminated food … investigate new therapies for cancer clinical trials … alert doctors about an emerging disease outbreak.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Feb 12, 2025

the greatest threat to American prosperity is not food aid to kids in Sudan or a diverse workforce; the greatest threat to our country is the abuse of power by a small group of people--an unelected group of people--who happen to have a…

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Feb 12, 2025

if you go back exactly 20 years ago today, I could tell you exactly where I was. I was a patient at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. I was staring at the beige-colored walls. And amidst the pain in every inch of my body, I was trying to…

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Sean Casten
@seancasten· Democratic · IL· Feb 11, 2025

They are worse than useless. And they are putting every American at risk.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Feb 11, 2025

I have received highly credible information from multiple sources that Kash Patel has been personally directing the ongoing purge of career civil servants at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Sean Casten
@seancasten· Democratic · IL· Feb 11, 2025

The first thing we do is make sure that unless you have a security clearance, a top-secret security clearance, you cannot access those records. The second thing it does is, if you have not been a Federal Government employee for at least a…

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Feb 11, 2025

It's not good for anybody. It's not good for the country.

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Sean Casten
@seancasten· Democratic · IL· Feb 11, 2025

Haley Stevens and I introduced the Taxpayer Data Protection Act last week. This is a very simple but, tragically, an urgently necessary bill to address the hack of the U.S. Treasury payment system by Elon Musk and his band of IT goons last…

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Feb 11, 2025

Congress was not provided the legally required 30-day notice and case-specific reasons for removal, as required by law.

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Sean Casten
@seancasten· Democratic · IL· Feb 11, 2025

I thank the gentlewoman from Wisconsin (Ms. Moore) for her remarks. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Turner).

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Sean Casten
@seancasten· Democratic · IL· Feb 11, 2025

May I inquire how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Illinois has 18 minutes remaining.

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Sean Casten
@seancasten· Democratic · IL· Feb 11, 2025

Joseph Stalin said that one death is a tragedy and a million deaths is a statistic. When we talk about constitutional crises and hacks into $5 trillion systems, that risks sounding like a statistic. I want to share just a couple of stories…

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Feb 11, 2025

He failed at his job because he hired Grayson despite documented issues.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Feb 11, 2025

If these allegations are true, Mr. Patel may have perjured himself before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Feb 11, 2025

I ask unanimous consent that the following detailees in the Senate Judiciary Committee be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the 119th Congress: Allison Kent and Dorothea Lay. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so…

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