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Richard Durbin

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Richard Durbin, commonly known as Dick Durbin, is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Illinois since 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he has held various leadership roles, including Senate Majority Whip. Durbin has been a prominent advocate for issues such as healthcare reform, immigration policy, and gun control. He has also played a significant role in negotiations on budget and appropriations matters in the Senate.

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May 1, 2006

Isn't it curious, as you drive around your hometown, that all the prices on all the pumps seem to go up at the same time and come down at the same time?

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Apr 24, 2006

The prices at the pump don't reflect our addiction to oil, they reflect a failure in leadership by this White House.

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Apr 12, 2006

I think that if Mr. Tenet felt the intelligence was bad or misleading, he should have resigned over it.

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Apr 12, 2006

As we drew closer to the day of the vote, it stuck me as odd that we had never asked for a national intelligence estimate, an NIE.

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Apr 12, 2006

Totally unusual. The agencies understand that if we're about to take a major military action or even consider one, you bring all your intelligence agencies together and say, what do you know, and what do you know for sure before we put our…

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Dec 19, 2005

Whenever the administration is caught in a situation where the intelligence is flawed or controversial, whether it was the invasion of Iraq or this spying on American citizens, their first line of defense is, well, the Democrats were in on…

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Nov 8, 2005

Well, I don't know what the word for cat is in Iraq, but it may be Chalabi. This man has more lives.

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Oct 23, 2005

The Federal prohibition on torture... is constitutional.

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Jun 21, 2005

I'm sorry if anything that I said caused any offense or pain.

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Feb 16, 2005

I would hope you'd look at it, because I think the death benefit, as well as monthly benefits, health insurance, and educational assistance----

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May 12, 2004

Two-thirds of the Iraqis simply want us to leave as of yesterday, and every battlefield success appears to be nothing more than a Pyrrhic victory.

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