Political Quotes

On the recordJuly 12, 2016
I ask the Senator through the Chair, in dealing with a public health emergency, a public health crisis, the potential of an epidemic that we now think could infect 25 percent of the population of Puerto Rico, is a timely response an important part of the congressional response?
Said by
Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Share & report

More from Dick Durbin

Apr 29, 2025

Mr. President, the jury is in. At the end of 100 days, the major polling firms across the United States went out and asked the American people: So what do you think? What is your impression of this new President? What is your impression of…

Congressional Record · 2025-04-29
May 5, 2025

Mr. President, I didn't agree with former President George W. Bush on a lot of things, but I have repeatedly given him credit for making the United States the world's leader in stemming the HIV-AIDS epidemic in some of the poorest parts of…

Congressional Record · 2025-05-05
Apr 30, 2025

I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Heinrich), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Murphy), the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Peters), the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders), the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner), the Senator from…

Congressional Record · 2025-04-30
May 5, 2025

I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Fetterman) and the Senator from Washington (Mrs. Murray) are necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 51, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 231 Leg.] YEAS--51 Banks…

Congressional Record · 2025-05-05

Other voices in this conversation