Richard Durbin actually said...

We have to get that dropout rate down to zero. It is far too high in our home State of Illinois.

Durbin calls for reducing the high dropout rate in Illinois and nationwide.

06/27/2011

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Secondly, visit a prison. I've done that regularly throughout my congressional career.

The violent crime wave sweeping across our country has absolutely nothing to do with the First Step Act.

The First Step Act helps to remedy the effects of the harsh and misguided drug sentencing laws from the 1980s.

I authored legislation, the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, that reduced the disparity of 100 to 1 between crack and powder, to 18.