Dick Durbin
Dick Durbin
Richard Joseph "Dick" Durbinis the senior United States Senator from Illinois, in office since 1997. He has been the Assistant Minority Leader, the second highest position in the Democratic Party leadership in the Senate, since 2015...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 November 1944
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Absent a court decision that voids that or some other last-minute change, we're going to have a much different Air Guard facility here,
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I don't think we should assume that's going to happen at all.
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It's going to make for a very difficult line of inquiry at our hearing, but we have to understand what she's all about, what her values and beliefs are, so we can make an informed judgment,
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I don't think we should race to a conclusion here, ... Ordinarily it takes six to eight weeks to evaluate a Supreme Court nominee. We shouldn't rush to judgment.
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I'm sorry that this wasn't done years and years ago,
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The United States Senate learned very little from Littleton, Colorado ... We defeated a sensible amendment that would have at least had a background check at gun shows.
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I don't think we should race to a conclusion here,
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may be a very competent individual. But how in the world can we get to the truth of the question as to what went wrong with Hurricane Katrina -- how can we really hope to discover the incompetence that led to all this human suffering and devastation -- if the administration is going to investigate itself?
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a man who can help heal the divisions of our nation.
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Americans are struggling to pay home heating costs, yet the president's budget cuts funding to help the most vulnerable in our nation pay their bills.
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A proud day for Chicago and a great day for Washington.
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Evergreen tenants should not have to spend another day living in substandard conditions,
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I'm hoping that (the president and Congress are) sensitive to what consumers are needing,
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The illegal trafficking in prescription medications constitutes a particularly troublesome aspect of the substance abuse problem in America.