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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We do not want to end the Patriot Act. We want to mend the Patriot Act.
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Two strikes and two outs in the bottom of the ninth and Gore gets a hit,
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At the very least, Mr. Gonzales helped to create a permissive environment that made it more likely that abuses would take place.
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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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There's more candor this time around, which helps, but I'm still looking at some of the basic questions,
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it would have put millions of American consumers and families at risk of losing coverage for necessary health care.
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This opportunity is slipping through our hands like grains of sand.
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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 man who can help heal the divisions of our nation.
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The VA cannot correct its errors by taking money away from veterans who depend on that income.
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A proud day for Chicago and a great day for Washington.
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Apparently the White House believes she doesn't have any burden to prove she deserves a lifetime appointment.
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. . . The White House promised new details in his speech. The president delivered generalities,
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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.