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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.
That is exactly right, I say to the Senator from Florida, and there were people who were critical of us and said we were, unfortunately, cutting Medicare benefits, which we were not. The Senator may recall that one of the first amendments…
Paul Ryan is a Congressman from Janesville, WI. I know it because it is right across the border from Illinois. I have relatives and friends who live in the area. I like Paul. I served with him on the Bowles-Simpson deficit commission. We…
following any leader remarks, there will be a period of morning business until 11 a.m., with the Republicans controlling the first half and the majority controlling the final half. Following morning business, the Senate will proceed to…
I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Casey). The Senator from Alaska. ____________________
I announce that the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Conrad), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), the Senator from Oregon (Mr. Merkley), the Senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Reed), and the…
In my hometown of East St. Louis, Illinois, it was literally a food desert for the 25,000 or 30,000 people living there.
the hearing record, as Senator Durbin said, will be, remain open until next Wednesday, May 11, at 12 noon.
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.
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.
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.
the Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government maintains jurisdiction over the annual appropriations for the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
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.
We also need to strengthen investment in our Nation's infrastructure by repairing crumbling roads and bridges.
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.
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?
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…
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.
Since the day I introduced the first bill to create such a bureau, Wall Street has fought to defeat and undermine it.
I'm deeply concerned that the Tea Party Republican plan to cut funding for reform is in place.
It's estimated that $345 billion of Federal taxes go uncollected each year--a noncompliance rate of 16.3 percent.
What I'm looking for is some kind of quantification--what we're spending, what we serve, what the universe of need is.
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