Dick Durbin

DOD (Department of Defense) medical research has led to profound improvements in the care of our troops and in the health of America.

Recent improvements in trauma medicine have increased survival rate for battlefield injuries to over 90 percent, unthinkable in previous conflicts.

It is incredible what happened in our military. The amount of money being spent on compound pharmaceuticals skyrocketed from several hundred million to two billion dollars.

Medical readiness is a key component of military readiness.

I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Carper), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson), and the Senator…

Now, they want to go overseas and avoid paying the taxes that sustained the medical research operations.

I think you are suggesting and I would support saying those who want to repatriate overseas profits would be given some advantage in the Tax Code if in fact they reinvest it in America.

It is certainly not fair to those businesses and individuals who continue to pay taxes in this country...

So, what should we do about the $2 trillion in profits overseas that are being held to avoid paying U.S. taxes?

the overwhelming majority of people are doing their legal best to pay their taxes, and we owe it to them to make sure everyone pays their legal share of taxes in this country.

There is no Senator or Congressman who could get reelected if they tried this in their home States or with their constituencies.

I think we owe it to the American taxpayers who by and large are people doing their best to comply with the law and do everything they are required to do, to treat them with more courtesy, respect, and efficiency.

yesterday the American people lost an icon. Nancy Davis Reagan died at the age of 94. Years ago, during an event at the White House, Nancy once serenaded her husband, singing: ``together we are going a long, long way.'' And boy did they…

today marks the 51st anniversary of what has come to be known as Bloody Sunday. On March 7, 1965, John Lewis and Reverend Hosea Williams led 600 brave civil rights activists in a march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL. These…

You could legislate an anti-inversion bill and stop these inversions.

We estimate we have lost $30 to $90 billion in Federal tax revenue from these companies that do this fast shuffle of corporate location so they can avoid tax liability.

the year was 1936. President Franklin Roosevelt had just been reelected with an overwhelming majority, and he decided he had had enough of the U.S. Supreme Court. They had been striking down some key pieces of legislation in his New Deal…

I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr…

I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill), the Senator from Nevada (Mr. Reid), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring…

I thank my colleague from Indiana. Mr. President, the bill before us is the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. It is one of the few bills on which we find so much bipartisanship. It really is an issue that all of us understand back…

I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was…

I announce that the Senator from Missouri (Mrs. McCaskill) and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays…

Shouldn't we have a national standard, if we are dealing with a national crisis here?

Virtually 5 percent real growth at the National Institutes of Health. It is a shot in the arm and an encouragement to medical researchers that we are serious about our commitment to biomedical research.

1 week ago the Republican majority leader made an announcement that stunned a lot of observers on Capitol Hill. Senator McConnell said that the Senate Republicans would basically turn their backs on what I consider to be a constitutional…