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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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Jul 22, 2013

Your Presidential candidate said they had to self-deport.

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Jul 22, 2013

can we have a fair system of justice?

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Jul 22, 2013

Is sequestration increasing the gap in resource parity to a point that calls into question whether indigent defendants are getting full due process?

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Jul 22, 2013

I have just got to close by saying I went to Peoria, Illinois, which is a basic Midwestern mid-sized city where they are dealing with crime by calling in all of those on probation and parole for face-to-face meetings and to say, 'We know…

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Jul 22, 2013

justice delayed and justice denied, as I see it, in terms of trying to sync up the investment in prosecution resources while we diminish the investment in defender resources.

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Jul 22, 2013

the notion that that office is facing potentially laying off a third of its staff is unconscionable

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Jul 18, 2013

I wanted to come to the floor while the Senator from Massachusetts was giving her remarks and was still here to say a few things about the bipartisan student loan proposal. There are a couple of things I want to point out for the Record…

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Jul 17, 2013

I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Brown). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 82, nays 17, as…

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Jul 16, 2013

one of the goals here is to just make it easier for people to vote.

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Jul 16, 2013

I want this country to be safe, and I believe if we had a ground missile defense system that worked, we would be a safer Nation, period.

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Jul 16, 2013

If this works, we're a safer Nation. So, I'm not starting hoping for the worst; I'm hoping for the best.

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Jul 16, 2013

Spending more on weapons that are not proven I don't believe meets the President's test.

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Jul 16, 2013

It really behooves Congress at this time to take all that into consideration.

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Jul 16, 2013

I want to thank you and Senator Grassley for this hearing today, and I want to congratulate my friend, Congressman John Lewis.

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Jul 16, 2013

Do we still need this? Is this something that belongs in a museum, this Voting Rights Act, in the Civil Rights Museum somewhere? We still need it.

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Jul 16, 2013

Do we still need the Voting Rights Act? Yes, we do.

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Jul 16, 2013

The ground missile defense system has not reached and not produced that level of confidence.

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Jul 16, 2013

It is dramatically different in my State, because when we put a redistricting or reapportionment map together, we know it is going to be challenged.

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Jul 16, 2013

Section 2 alone is not sufficient. And I cannot stress that enough.

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Jul 16, 2013

Is it true or not that the GMD system has not been tested against an intercontinental range missile, and no plans for such tests have been scheduled until 2015, at the earliest?

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Jul 16, 2013

there are still serious questions as to whether or not we have a missile defense system that can protect America against threats

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Jul 16, 2013

Has the system ever been tested against a tumbling warhead?

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Jul 16, 2013

Voter fraud, it is not as significant an issue as the larger picture.

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