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Dick 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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Mar 23, 2022

Your nomination turned out to be a testing ground for conspiracy theories and culture war theories.

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Mar 22, 2022

The senator from Missouri has in his tweets said Judge Jackson has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes.

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Mar 22, 2022

Your nomination turned out to be a testing ground, for conspiracy theories, and culture war theories.

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Mar 22, 2022

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to executive session and vote on the confirmation of Executive Calendar No. 682, the nomination of Ruth Montenegro, under the previous order. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order…

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Mar 22, 2022

I announce that the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Casey), the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Manchin), and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) are necessarily absent.

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Mar 21, 2022

I announce that the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) is necessarily absent.-

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Mar 20, 2022

this Constitution of ours, which has taken up so much time in the hearing, the conversation about it.

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Mar 20, 2022

Unfortunately, too many of the Court's decisions do not rest on solid constitutional foundations and reliable legal reasoning.

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Mar 20, 2022

This Committee has also received a striking outpouring of support for your nomination from a very broad range of sources.

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Mar 20, 2022

I think you have to have integrity. I think you have to have a judicial temperament. But a philosophy? Where has that come from?

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Mar 20, 2022

I have every expectation that at the end of this week's hearings, it will be clear to all that you are impeccably qualified in the law.

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Mar 20, 2022

I am not going to be party to turning over this information and endangering the life of an innocent person for a political quest to find more information.

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Mar 20, 2022

The Supreme Court is not a political institution. Rather, the Court stands above politics and above partisanship.

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Mar 20, 2022

These baseless charges are unfair.

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Mar 20, 2022

What a resume. All these experiences and perspectives have provided her a mastery of our justice system.

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Mar 20, 2022

I don't want it on my conscience.

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Mar 20, 2022

Judge Jackson has received the unqualified endorsement not only of your organization, NOBLE, but also of the Fraternal Order of Police.

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Mar 20, 2022

You play to the same rules as every other Senator.

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Mar 20, 2022

As Dr. King said that day, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

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Mar 20, 2022

President Lincoln learned at Gettysburg that 275 words were enough.

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Mar 20, 2022

I want the American people to believe them.

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Mar 20, 2022

The picking of the Justices has been handed to special interests.

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Mar 20, 2022

This family has been torn apart by your criminal actions. You saw it on the faces of those women. You heard it in their voices.

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Mar 20, 2022

Judge Jackson is no judicial activist. She is not a puppet of the so-called radical left.

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Mar 20, 2022

there is that awful reference to 'three-fifths of all other persons,' which though the document never mentions the word 'slavery' or 'slaves,' what was being spelled out here by the Founding Fathers was how are we going to count these…

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