Dick Durbin: “One of the things that inspired me to move in this direction was the judiciary, judges who came back after applying our…”

I secured $1 million in federal funding for Lurie Children’s to help create this community health clinic in Austin and now, that investment comes to life.

That’s why we’ve had an ongoing battle here in Washington for years against the for-profit college and university industry.

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.

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.