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July 10, 2019
Tweet - "When Secretary Acosta talked about the "hard time" he gave Jeffrey Epstein today, it sounded more like "happy time" to me. He should resign immediately."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 10, 2019
Tweet - "While Pres. Trump & Republicans are attacking the Affordable Care Act in court, we must remember the real-life implications of eliminating this law. Yesterday on the steps of the Capitol, I held up this picture of Frank and Heidi Yerbic, from Peoria, IL, on their wedding day."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 10, 2019
Tweet - "Last night, the Senate passed my bipartisan resolution with @SenTedCruz calling for a swift and peaceful transfer of power in Sudan. The Sudanese people have had enough of tyranny - the US Senate stands with them in their fight for democracy."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 10, 2019
Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019
Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
July 10, 2019
Durbin, Grassley Vow To Continue Push To Require Disclosure Of Drug Prices In TV Ads
Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
July 10, 2019
Executive Calendar
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 10, 2019
Tweet - "Today, I met with @AmerAcadPeds President-Elect Dr. Sally Goza, to talk about the heart-breaking situation at our southern border."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 9, 2019
Menendez, Democrats Introduce Health Care Bill of Rights
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 9, 2019
Letter to Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon - Pallone & Schakowsky Question Amazon's Oversight of Fake Online Product Reviews
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, ...
July 9, 2019
Underwood Statement on Continued Assault on Americans' Access to Quality, Affordable Health Care
Rep. Lauren Underwood
July 9, 2019
Bipartisan Bill to Help Communities Like Wiscasset with Stranded Nuclear Waste Introduced in the Senate
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 9, 2019
Durbin, Duckworth Help Introduce Health Care Bill Of Rights
Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
July 9, 2019
Tweet - "Today, Leader McConnell has scheduled a vote on a nominee to fill a California-based judicial seat in the 9th Circuit. Unfortunately, that nominee, Daniel Bress, is a Washington, DC lawyer who has barely lived in California since high school."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 9, 2019
Tweet - "I agree with @SenSchumer -- Secretary Acosta should resign."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 9, 2019
Tweet - "Tonight, baseball's best players compete at the #AllStarGame. Baseball fans deserve the best, too. It's time for @MLB to extend safety netting at all major league ballparks to the foul poles. Let's not wait until next season. Increased fan safety is a win for everyone."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 9, 2019
Durbin Statement On Trump Administration Lawsuit Against The Affordable Care Act
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 9, 2019
Tweet - "The Affordable Care Act helped 20 million Americans gain health insurance, including more than 1 million in IL alone -- cutting the uninsured rate in our state in half. Today, Republicans are going to court to attempt to overturn the entire ACA & rip coverage away from millions."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 8, 2019
CNN "The Situation Room" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Raja Krishamoorthi
Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
July 8, 2019
Underwood Introduces the Counter Terrorist Network Act
Rep. Lauren Underwood
July 8, 2019
Tweet - "We know why President Trump wants to put the citizenship question on the census: to discourage Hispanic-Americans from answering the questionnaire. The DOJ must print the census without the citizenship question so every person in the U.S. is counted."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 8, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture - Illinois Congressional Delegation Urges USDA To Support State's Request For Disaster Declaration
Rep. Brad Schneider, ...
July 8, 2019
Letter to Steven Dillingham, Director and Census Bureau - Murray, Cantwell, Colleagues Urge Census Bureau to Provide Language Support for Southeast Asian Communities
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 8, 2019
Tweet - "I've always believed that it's impossible to understand the issues facing our criminal justice system without seeing prisons firsthand. That's why I'd urge my fellow lawmakers to take the @FAMMFoundation #VisitAPrison challenge and visit a prison in the next twelve months."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 8, 2019
Tweet - "Former IL Attorney General Lisa Madigan knows the importance of states being able to protect their students from unscrupulous and predatory student loan servicers."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 6, 2019
Tweet - "These tragedies will continue if violent extremism is left unchecked. The Senate should immediately pass my Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 6, 2019
Tweet - "Brazilian President Bolsonaro is threatening our planet with these reckless and selfish Amazon deforestation policies. Sadly, our President has emboldened this kind of behavior by repeatedly denying the science behind climate change."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 5, 2019
100th Anniversary of the East St. Louis American Legion Post 53
Rep. Mike Bost
July 3, 2019
MSNBC "Hardball with Chris Matthews" - Transcript: Trump: "Department of Justice reverses course."
Rep. Mike Quigley
July 3, 2019
Congressman Krishnamoorthi Strongly Supports Oversight Committee Investigation Of Detestable CBP Facebook Group Posts
Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
July 3, 2019
Letter to Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary at the US Department of Homeland Security, Matthew Albence, Acting Director at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Mark Morgan, Acting Commissioner at US Customs and Border Protection - Illinois Congressmen Raja Krishnamoorthi And Jesus "Chuy" Garcia Launch Inquiry To Ensure DHS Uses Funds To Strengthen Conditions For Migrant Children And Families
Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
July 3, 2019
Letter to Carlos Cordeiro, U.S. Soccer President - Democratic Women's Caucus Leadership Demands Answers About Gender Discrimination and Unequal Pay for U.S. Women's National Soccer Team
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, ...
July 3, 2019
Tweet - "In April, I visited the Del Norte Processing Center in El Paso. I will never forget what I saw there. The cruelty of this Administration is hard to overstate. America is better than this."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 3, 2019
Durbin Calls On Congress To Protect And Strengthen The ACA, Not Undermine It
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 3, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Gene Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States Government Accountability Office - Duckworth, Durbin, Fischer & Bustos Call For GAO Review of "Move Over" Laws to Better Protect First Responders
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 2, 2019
Underwood Works to Combat Robocalls
Rep. Lauren Underwood
July 2, 2019
Congressman Jesus "Chuy" García Applauds Removal of Citizenship Question from 2020 Census
Rep. Chuy Garcia
July 2, 2019
Foster Introduces Resolution to Allow DREAMers to Serve in Military
Rep. Bill Foster
July 2, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services - Democrats Urge HHS Secretary to End Restrictions on Using Fetal Tissue for Scientific Research
Rep. Bill Foster, ...
July 2, 2019
Young, Duckworth, Risch Legislation to Increase Investment in Small Businesses
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 2, 2019
Tweet - "Next week 20 Republican states & the Trump Admin will go to court in an attempt -- once again -- to eliminate the Affordable Care Act. If the President has his way we could return to the dark days where insurance companies discriminate against patients with pre-existing conditions."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 2, 2019
Tweet - "This is good news for our democracy. I'm glad the Trump Administration finally decided to abandon its partisan, underhanded effort to add a citizenship question to the census."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 2, 2019
Tweet - "This afternoon I visited @SIUE WE CARE Clinic in my hometown of East St. Louis. It's a nurse-managed primary clinic that serves patients of all ages and works with community partners to decrease health disparities and promote health"
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 1, 2019
President Trump Signs LaHood Legislation to Reform IRS into Law
Rep. Darin LaHood
July 1, 2019
Freshman Lawmakers Unveil Task Force Sentry: Bipartisan Group Working to Prevent Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections
Rep. Lauren Underwood
July 1, 2019
Congresswoman Schakowsky Reintroduces Bill to Protect Drinking Water From Fracking
Rep. Jan Schakowsky
July 1, 2019
Brown, Senate Democrats Press OSHA, McDonald's Leadership to Take Action to Protect Employees from Workplace Violence
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 1, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Hon. Seema Verma, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Cassidy Presses for Access to Life-Saving Devices
Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
July 1, 2019
Lawmakers Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Stop Hot Car Deaths
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, ...
July 1, 2019
Tweet - "Betsy Devos can always be trusted to come down on the side of corporate greed over quality education. Her defense of federal subsidies for the worst performing for profit schools gives students and taxpayers the shaft and her corporate buddies a windfall. Sadly, it's no surprise."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 1, 2019
Cortez Masto, Colleagues Honor Anniversary of Title Ix, Landmark Civil Rights Law Prohibiting Discrimination in Education on The Basis of Sex
Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Date
Title
Politician
July 10, 2019
Tweet - "When Secretary Acosta talked about the "hard time" he gave Jeffrey Epstein today, it sounded more like "happy time" to me. He should resign immediately."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 10, 2019
Tweet - "While Pres. Trump & Republicans are attacking the Affordable Care Act in court, we must remember the real-life implications of eliminating this law. Yesterday on the steps of the Capitol, I held up this picture of Frank and Heidi Yerbic, from Peoria, IL, on their wedding day."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 10, 2019
Tweet - "Last night, the Senate passed my bipartisan resolution with @SenTedCruz calling for a swift and peaceful transfer of power in Sudan. The Sudanese people have had enough of tyranny - the US Senate stands with them in their fight for democracy."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 10, 2019
Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019
Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
July 10, 2019
Durbin, Grassley Vow To Continue Push To Require Disclosure Of Drug Prices In TV Ads
Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
July 10, 2019
Executive Calendar
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 10, 2019
Tweet - "Today, I met with @AmerAcadPeds President-Elect Dr. Sally Goza, to talk about the heart-breaking situation at our southern border."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 9, 2019
Menendez, Democrats Introduce Health Care Bill of Rights
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 9, 2019
Letter to Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon - Pallone & Schakowsky Question Amazon's Oversight of Fake Online Product Reviews
Rep.Jan Schakowsky, ...
July 9, 2019
Underwood Statement on Continued Assault on Americans' Access to Quality, Affordable Health Care
Rep.Lauren Underwood
July 9, 2019
Bipartisan Bill to Help Communities Like Wiscasset with Stranded Nuclear Waste Introduced in the Senate
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 9, 2019
Durbin, Duckworth Help Introduce Health Care Bill Of Rights
Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
July 9, 2019
Tweet - "Today, Leader McConnell has scheduled a vote on a nominee to fill a California-based judicial seat in the 9th Circuit. Unfortunately, that nominee, Daniel Bress, is a Washington, DC lawyer who has barely lived in California since high school."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 9, 2019
Tweet - "I agree with @SenSchumer -- Secretary Acosta should resign."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 9, 2019
Tweet - "Tonight, baseball's best players compete at the #AllStarGame. Baseball fans deserve the best, too. It's time for @MLB to extend safety netting at all major league ballparks to the foul poles. Let's not wait until next season. Increased fan safety is a win for everyone."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 9, 2019
Durbin Statement On Trump Administration Lawsuit Against The Affordable Care Act
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 9, 2019
Tweet - "The Affordable Care Act helped 20 million Americans gain health insurance, including more than 1 million in IL alone -- cutting the uninsured rate in our state in half. Today, Republicans are going to court to attempt to overturn the entire ACA & rip coverage away from millions."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 8, 2019
CNN "The Situation Room" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Raja Krishamoorthi
Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
July 8, 2019
Underwood Introduces the Counter Terrorist Network Act
Rep.Lauren Underwood
July 8, 2019
Tweet - "We know why President Trump wants to put the citizenship question on the census: to discourage Hispanic-Americans from answering the questionnaire. The DOJ must print the census without the citizenship question so every person in the U.S. is counted."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 8, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture - Illinois Congressional Delegation Urges USDA To Support State's Request For Disaster Declaration
Rep.Brad Schneider, ...
July 8, 2019
Letter to Steven Dillingham, Director and Census Bureau - Murray, Cantwell, Colleagues Urge Census Bureau to Provide Language Support for Southeast Asian Communities
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 8, 2019
Tweet - "I've always believed that it's impossible to understand the issues facing our criminal justice system without seeing prisons firsthand. That's why I'd urge my fellow lawmakers to take the @FAMMFoundation #VisitAPrison challenge and visit a prison in the next twelve months."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 8, 2019
Tweet - "Former IL Attorney General Lisa Madigan knows the importance of states being able to protect their students from unscrupulous and predatory student loan servicers."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 6, 2019
Tweet - "These tragedies will continue if violent extremism is left unchecked. The Senate should immediately pass my Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 6, 2019
Tweet - "Brazilian President Bolsonaro is threatening our planet with these reckless and selfish Amazon deforestation policies. Sadly, our President has emboldened this kind of behavior by repeatedly denying the science behind climate change."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 5, 2019
100th Anniversary of the East St. Louis American Legion Post 53
Rep.Mike Bost
July 3, 2019
MSNBC "Hardball with Chris Matthews" - Transcript: Trump: "Department of Justice reverses course."
Rep.Mike Quigley
July 3, 2019
Congressman Krishnamoorthi Strongly Supports Oversight Committee Investigation Of Detestable CBP Facebook Group Posts
Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
July 3, 2019
Letter to Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary at the US Department of Homeland Security, Matthew Albence, Acting Director at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Mark Morgan, Acting Commissioner at US Customs and Border Protection - Illinois Congressmen Raja Krishnamoorthi And Jesus "Chuy" Garcia Launch Inquiry To Ensure DHS Uses Funds To Strengthen Conditions For Migrant Children And Families
Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
July 3, 2019
Letter to Carlos Cordeiro, U.S. Soccer President - Democratic Women's Caucus Leadership Demands Answers About Gender Discrimination and Unequal Pay for U.S. Women's National Soccer Team
Rep.Jan Schakowsky, ...
July 3, 2019
Tweet - "In April, I visited the Del Norte Processing Center in El Paso. I will never forget what I saw there. The cruelty of this Administration is hard to overstate. America is better than this."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 3, 2019
Durbin Calls On Congress To Protect And Strengthen The ACA, Not Undermine It
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 3, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Gene Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States Government Accountability Office - Duckworth, Durbin, Fischer & Bustos Call For GAO Review of "Move Over" Laws to Better Protect First Responders
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 2, 2019
Underwood Works to Combat Robocalls
Rep.Lauren Underwood
July 2, 2019
Congressman Jesus "Chuy" García Applauds Removal of Citizenship Question from 2020 Census
Rep.Chuy Garcia
July 2, 2019
Foster Introduces Resolution to Allow DREAMers to Serve in Military
Rep.Bill Foster
July 2, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services - Democrats Urge HHS Secretary to End Restrictions on Using Fetal Tissue for Scientific Research
Rep.Bill Foster, ...
July 2, 2019
Young, Duckworth, Risch Legislation to Increase Investment in Small Businesses
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 2, 2019
Tweet - "Next week 20 Republican states & the Trump Admin will go to court in an attempt -- once again -- to eliminate the Affordable Care Act. If the President has his way we could return to the dark days where insurance companies discriminate against patients with pre-existing conditions."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 2, 2019
Tweet - "This is good news for our democracy. I'm glad the Trump Administration finally decided to abandon its partisan, underhanded effort to add a citizenship question to the census."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 2, 2019
Tweet - "This afternoon I visited @SIUE WE CARE Clinic in my hometown of East St. Louis. It's a nurse-managed primary clinic that serves patients of all ages and works with community partners to decrease health disparities and promote health"
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 1, 2019
President Trump Signs LaHood Legislation to Reform IRS into Law
Rep.Darin LaHood
July 1, 2019
Freshman Lawmakers Unveil Task Force Sentry: Bipartisan Group Working to Prevent Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections
Rep.Lauren Underwood
July 1, 2019
Congresswoman Schakowsky Reintroduces Bill to Protect Drinking Water From Fracking
Rep.Jan Schakowsky
July 1, 2019
Brown, Senate Democrats Press OSHA, McDonald's Leadership to Take Action to Protect Employees from Workplace Violence
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
July 1, 2019
Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Hon. Seema Verma, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Cassidy Presses for Access to Life-Saving Devices
Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
July 1, 2019
Lawmakers Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Stop Hot Car Deaths
Rep.Jan Schakowsky, ...
July 1, 2019
Tweet - "Betsy Devos can always be trusted to come down on the side of corporate greed over quality education. Her defense of federal subsidies for the worst performing for profit schools gives students and taxpayers the shaft and her corporate buddies a windfall. Sadly, it's no surprise."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 1, 2019
Cortez Masto, Colleagues Honor Anniversary of Title Ix, Landmark Civil Rights Law Prohibiting Discrimination in Education on The Basis of Sex
Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
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