Dick Durbin: “I ask that you and the Congress act in all deliberate speed to start bending that moral arc toward the direction of…”

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.

Nominations hearings, like this one today, are an essential part of the Senate’s role in providing advice and consent on presidential nominees. This constitutional duty is a critical check on the Executive Branch. And it has never been…

Thanks for this great honor and recognition. I’m glad to be part of an effective government unit.

I can’t wait to see all the good that happens here.