Dick Durbin: “I announce that the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Begich), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the Senator from…”

I’m glad these borrowers, after years and years of waiting, will finally get the relief they’re entitled to.

Senator Duckworth and I helped to secure $18.3 million in federal funding for the Southern Illinois Multimodal Station to better connect families, students, and small businesses to local and national destinations.

The Trump administration has not provided transparency into the use of federal funds for the East Wing project, and they have limited congressional oversight, meaningful public input, and adherence to established federal processes.

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.