“While we recognize GSA’s recent investments, we urge the agency to maintain this momentum and complete these projects without further unnecessary delay to ensure both courthouses are safe and functional,”
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.
If they don’t pay for insurance, if they don’t have serious regulation, the American taxpayers should not bail them out.
We’re living in the most corrupt presidency in the history of the United States.
So, then, why would the President host a primetime address attempting to resurrect these debunked claims? I’ll tell you: It’s exactly what he did in the months preceding the 2020 election that he sought to steal.
I’m sorry to tell you the pay plan tells us to be prepared to spend that money in Fiscal Year [20]29.
“Yesterday’s hearing I can’t easily forget in this room. Because I asked a question of Mr. Todd Blanche about the opportunity he had to meet with victims of Jeffrey Epstein. I asked him the same question the night before in my office. And…
Are you aware of the fact [that] we appropriated, and the President signed into law, $400 million in supplemental funding for Ukraine including for air defenses?
“Every single one of us in this room has to obey the law, that is the basics in a democracy like ours. And when it comes to tax crimes, the same applies. Now there is an exception in the eyes of Todd Blanche and that exception is the…
“Secondly, let me tell you what. I guess I was born in a different era from this President and the people around him. But I kind of understood going into public life that if you wanted to get rich, this was the wrong job. You’re supposed…
What’s going to happen to that $75 billion [in unobligated OBBBA funding]?
But instead of finding the money they need now for air defenses, we’re putting more money to this exchange with Iran—a war of choice which we never should have entered.
He [Jack Smith] has agreed voluntarily to come before this Senate Judiciary Committee and answer questions under oath… [Republicans] owe it to him to tell his story under oath and [Republicans] refused to [bring him before the Committee]…
We’re in a moment in history where we can win the war in Ukraine—that victory would be critically important for those people who have fought for more than four years against the odds and proven they can put Putin back on his heels.
Is this the man we want to confirm to be the head of the premier law enforcement agency in America? With Mr. Blanche, it is clear that justice is secondary to loyalty to the President.
The integration mandate is a cornerstone of that promise, and weakening it would reverse decades of bipartisan progress.
You certainly cannot explain it to the policemen who almost lost their lives because of the attackers.
You are dancing on the head of a pin here… We have these survivors who have the courage to come before this Committee and tell their terrible stories of how they were exploited.
It is despicable that the administration is taking away funding from states that did not vote for Trump.
Everything we heard from Todd Blanche at his hearing last week—and in his responses to written questions—indicates that, if confirmed as Attorney General, Blanche will continue to serve the interest of Donald Trump, not the American people.
There’s going to be history written about this Administration and I think it will be extraordinary with its corruption.
[Republicans] owe it to him to tell his story under oath and [Republicans] refused to [bring him before the Committee]. The conclusion I draw is that they are afraid of what he has to say… would you comment on it?
I want to take a moment to respond to [Committee Republicans’] claim at Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing that Democrats never criticized the Biden Justice Department’s actions. This is simply and provably false.
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