Dick Durbin

I say in response--and this will be my last response because I have to run to a meeting--but the interesting point about Chairman Ryan's proposal is the money does not go to the senior citizens under Medicare; the money goes to the…

Yes, I say to the Senator from Florida, that is my understanding. But it also includes a 28-percent reduction in the amount of money the Federal Government is going to pay into this. So in your State, and mine, too, a lot of elderly people…

I would say to the Senator from Florida, representing a State as diverse as his, with rural areas and major urban centers, there are some areas where private health insurance companies are not going to do business because it is not…

In my hometown of East St. Louis, Illinois, it was literally a food desert for the 25,000 or 30,000 people living there.

We're talking about, in many ways, an epidemic.

The Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government maintains jurisdiction over the annual appropriations for the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

I'm deeply concerned that the Tea Party Republican plan to cut funding for reform is in place.

It's time to find a stick.

It's not a surprise Wall Street is balking at the CFPB starting up--fully informed consumers will make markets more competitive, eliminating the ability of banks, lenders, and mortgage brokers to profit from sheer confusion.

This proposed cut seems to me to be penny-wise and pound foolish.

Before any coalition planes were in the sky over Libya, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control had frozen $32 billion in Libyan assets.

Since the day I introduced the first bill to create such a bureau, Wall Street has fought to defeat and undermine it.

It's completely within our capacity to do, and we have to make sure we justify that confidence that you see in markets every day now.

I urge President Obama to keep the commitment in his budget to let the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy expire at the end of 2012.

I cannot reconcile, in my mind, how a bank believes that foreclosing on a home, boarding it up, letting the weeds grow in the front yard and the vandals come in and rip out all the copper plumbing until it reaches the point that it becomes…

It is vitally important that the $227 million in the President's fiscal 2012 budget requested for the CDFI Fund is appropriated.

Since passage of that legislation, there has been a steady effort by Wall Street to undo that Wall Street reform.

The purpose of Wall Street reform was to make certain we never had to walk that road again.

The way to stop that reform is to fail to fund an agency like your own, to make sure there are no cops on the beat.

That's $32 billion that Muammar Gaddafi can not use to pay mercenaries, gas up his tanks, or purchase weapons to fight his own people.

Can we really expect a solid recovery of this economy unless or until we mark-to-market and understand what the true value of real estate is?

We also need to strengthen investment in our Nation's infrastructure by repairing crumbling roads and bridges.

One of the reasons businesses can't borrow is that they can't pledge the warehouse and the real estate as collateral, because there's a question of the value.

The Congress exercises its most-effective oversight of agencies and programs through the appropriations process.

That's $32 billion that Muammar Gaddafi can't use to pay mercenaries, gas up his tanks, or purchase weapons to kill his own people.