Dick Durbin: “I announce that the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich) and the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Pryor) are necessarily absent.”

More than half of them said, we are in trouble—serious trouble.

I have threatened some of these for-profit schools as a way of getting them to drop the loans that they were enforcing on these students, because I know what happens in the end.

The 129 responses we received made it clear that this legislation will mean shuttering of services, layoffs, and even hospital closures—meaning patients will needlessly suffer.

Our state’s top-notch rail system keeps our economy moving while allowing Illinoisans to travel from Chicago to Carbondale.