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It is just physically impossible.
4/21/2010
I would like to follow up on that, because we had a classic example where a member from your side forced a vote on a Sat...
4/21/2010
It promotes majority rules.
4/21/2010
And one of the things that has disturbed me, Mr. Chairman, as much as all of the filibusters and the holds, is that we a...
4/21/2010
If you do not care if they hate you, you can get an awful lot done in the Senate.
4/21/2010
It strikes me that this really is offensive, that someone says, I have got to protect my rights, but in absentia, I have...
4/21/2010
I predicted at that time that an arms race was underway.
4/21/2010
It is not going to get better. It is going to get worse because every time they do a filibuster on us, we are going to d...
4/21/2010
The idea that Senator Byrd, the late, great Senator Byrd, when he was extraordinarily ill, had to be forced to come to t...
4/21/2010
Nominations as we have noted came out with overwhelming votes, if not unanimous votes, out of Committee.
4/21/2010
It makes the Senate not an institution to be respected for its principles, but a dysfunctional institution which apparen...
4/21/2010
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Richard Joseph Durbin
in office

usa, Illinois

4,677 Quotes

Born11/21/1944 (age 81)

PartyDemocratic

  • United States Senator

    1/4/2005 - present
  • U.S. House of Representatives

    1/3/1997 - 1/3/2005
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