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Climate Change

Floor Speech

Date: June 10, 2026
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, let me thank my colleague from Rhode Island and recall affectionately that, when I came to the Senate in 1997, John Chafee was serving. And I had an opportunity to meet with him and to work with him on something that he loved called the Atlantic Forum. He asked me to join him in a bipartisan way to lead that effort in the Senate--such a compliment for a freshman Senator to have that kind of request from a man of his stature.

He served our country so well in World War II, maybe even in the Korean war, as well, in the Marine Corps, before he was elected Governor of your State.

I attended his memorial service in Providence, and it was quite a crowd, as there should have been.

Thank you for bringing up his name in this positive way.

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