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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.
in order to spare, at a maximum, 7,000 of the wealthiest people in America who may die in the outgoing years, in order to spare them estate tax liability, even though America has been very kind to them and they have lived very comfortable…
I introduced this resolution because I think we have reached a critical point where we must act to stop this genocide in Sudan. I am proud that 40 Senators from both sides agree it is time to say ``no more.'' For more than 4 years, the…
I rise today to oppose the DeMint amendment No. 4124 and explain why the garage door safety provision in the Consumer Product Safety Reform Act is really important. Garage doors inherently pose a risk to families, particularly small…
last week we had a debate on the floor of the Senate about three different measures. The frustration was that at the end of the week, nothing happened. Now a lot of people who watch C-SPAN and observe the Senate in session wonder if…
Our economy is in trouble. It is struggling. The first indication we had was in the housing market. We know we passed a stimulus bill recently, a bipartisan bill which the President signed. It is going to be a good bill, I hope, to help…
I rise to take a few minutes, during National Peace Corps Week, to salute the dedication and accomplishments of the hundreds of thousands of Peace Corps volunteers who have served our Nation and the world since President John F. Kennedy…
Last week's announced recall of 143 million pounds of ground beef stretching back over 2 years of production at Westland's Chino, California, facility is by far the largest recall in U.S. history.
Included in that recall were 50 million pounds of ground beef sent to Federal nutrition programs like the School Lunch Program.
Thank you Mr. Chairman and Senator Bennett for holding today's hearing on the Westland/Hallmark Meat Company recall of ground beef.
I believe, as do many of us today, that the decision to invade Iraq was, in fact, the worst foreign policy decision of our time, maybe beyond that. We will pay a heavy price for it, but we will not pay a price as a nation as great as the…
about 60 miles west of the city of Chicago is the city of DeKalb, IL. DeKalb is a town of great historic importance not only in our State but to our Nation. Many years ago in DeKalb, they invented barbed wire. It sounds like a small…
I would like to amend it. I would like to add something he failed to add and failed to advise the Senate. We offered to extend the terrorist surveillance law. We said there shouldn't be any gap in terms of the efforts of the United States…
In response to the emerging threat of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, infections, I introduced legislation in November to improve the prevention, detection, and treatment of community and healthcare-associated…
What we are witnessing is not a crisis in security. It is a crisis in logic. How can the Republican leader stand here and argue how endangered America would be if we allowed this law to expire and then object to extending the law? How can…
I am sure the Senator is aware that this questionable chapter in American history--which I think will haunt us for generations to come--also involves people other than the general who testified. There is an individual who has been…
in her book ``Team of Rivals,'' Doris Kearns Goodwin tells a story that illustrates the extraordinary, transcendent power of Abraham Lincoln's faith in human freedom and democracy. It is a story about something that occurred in 1908, 100…
it was a great honor to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives before coming to the Senate and, during that time, to serve with Tom Lantos of California. His was an extraordinary story of a man who survived the Holocaust and came to…
I am deeply disturbed with what has taken place this week within the Department of Justice relative to those futures markets. As we have been told, the staff at the Justice Department recently wrote a memo to the Department of Treasury…
as this economy continues to deteriorate and we see these wild gyrations in the stock market, there are a lot of people concerned. Yesterday, the stock market went down over 300 points. I know it has its good days and bad days, but it has…
Ed Molitor has been coaching basketball at Palatine High School for so long that when the local paper reported on his retirement, the sports trivia question it ran included the name of his predecessor. When Ed Molitor was in college, he…
The national debt of America has doubled in the last 7 years under President Bush. We have accumulated more debt under President Bush than under all of the previous Presidents of the United States combined. We have incurred this debt…
I am glad the majority leader has come to speak about this issue. It is hard to imagine what is going through the mind of the President that he believes he can make an argument tomorrow with the meeting at the White House, that we have…
the President's budget is often described as "dead on arrival." In fairness to this President and others, we should look at it in a different way. This is the President's proposal for the budget for the next fiscal year. It is a fiscal…
I think it is evident the American people feel America is headed in the wrong direction by overwhelming numbers. When they look at Congress and Washington, they do not sense that we are sensitive to the real challenges families face every…
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