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Aug. 7, 2018 Letter to Attorney General Sessions and Secretary DeVos - Condemn Trump Administration For Rescinding Civil Rights Guidance Promoting Diversity In Education Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Aug. 7, 2018 Tweet - "I continue to urge HUD to quickly implement the recommendations made in the Inspector General's report to improve oversight and administration of public housing authorities. No one should have their access to safe and healthy housing threatened as a result of HUD's inaction." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 6, 2018 After Allegations Of Child Abuse At Shelter For Unaccompanied Minors, Duckworth Tours Facility Housing Children Separated By Trump's "Zero Tolerance" Policy Sen. Ladda Duckworth
Aug. 6, 2018 Durbin Statement On President Trump's Decision To Re-Impose Sanctions On Iran Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 6, 2018 Letter to The Hon. Rob Bishop and The Hon. Raul Grijalva - Letter Asks Natural Resources Committee for Hearing on Quigley, Upton Legislation in Support of Great Lakes Fisheries Rep. Jan Schakowsky, ...
Aug. 6, 2018 Letter to the Hon. L. Francis Cissna, Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services - Members of Congress Probe DHS over Circumstances Leading to TPS Termination for Nepal and Honduras Rep. Jan Schakowsky, ...
Aug. 6, 2018 MSNBC "All in with Chris Hayes" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Mike Quigley Rep. Mike Quigley
Aug. 6, 2018 Tweet - "It's alarming to hear about the Saudi government's latest crackdown on peaceful activists. I have long called for the release of journalists like Raif Badawi, and human rights defenders like Waleed Abu al-Khair." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 6, 2018 Tweet - "It's alarming to hear about the Saudi government's latest crackdown on peaceful activists. I have long called for the release of journalists like Raif Badawi, and human rights defenders like Waleed Abu al-Khair." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 6, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Jeff Sessions, US Attorney General, and the Hon. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education - Senate Democrats Condemn Trump Administration for Rescinding Civil Rights Guidance Promoting Diversity in Education Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
Aug. 4, 2018 Tweet - "The Trump Administration should be pointing the finger at themselves. They created this humanitarian disaster, and it's their responsibility to solve it by reuniting the kids who were forcibly separated from their parents at the border." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 4, 2018 Tweet - "Federal judge, appointed by Pres. George W. Bush, ruled that the Trump Admin's justification for terminating #DACA was "conclusory" and "accompanied by a hodgepodge of illogical or post hoc policy assertions."" Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 3, 2018 Tweet - "When we call the press "fake news" or tell people not to pay attention to them, it discredits an important part of America's democracy. It takes a free press to hold politicians of both parties accountable. That's their job, and it's more important now than ever before." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 3, 2018 Letter to Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State and Mark Green, U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator - Feinstein, Senators to Trump Administration: Restore Aid to Palestinians in Gaza Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Aug. 3, 2018 Hirono Introduces Legislation to Protect Medicare and Medicaid from Partisan Attacks Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
Aug. 3, 2018 Tweet - "Nearly 600. This is completely unacceptable. I won't rest until the Trump Administration reunites every child who was forcibly separated and is held responsible for this zero-tolerance humanitarian disaster." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 3, 2018 Tweet - "President Trump and Congressional Republicans padded the pockets of Big Pharma with their tax bill. What are they doing about holding Big Pharma accountable for skyrocketing drug costs that are hurting middle class families? American patients deserve lower costs too." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 2, 2018 Tweet - "What is the Trump Administration doing to reunite the 711 "lost" children with their parents, who were forcibly removed from their mothers & fathers at the border? We cannot rest until every child is safely back in their parents' arms." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 2, 2018 Letter to Michael Pompeo, Secretary of State - Reinstate TPS for El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti Rep. Robin Kelly, ...
Aug. 2, 2018 Letter to the Honorable Trey Gowdy, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and the Honorable Mark Meadows, Chairman of House Government Operation Subcommittee - Hearing Request with Commerce Secretary on Misleading Census Testimony Rep. Robin Kelly, ...
Aug. 2, 2018 Letter to Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior - Senators to Zinke: Staking and Developing New Mining Claims Within National Monuments Is Illegal Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
Aug. 2, 2018 Duckworth Statement On Trump Administration Proposal To Roll Back Federal Fuel Efficiency Standards Sen. Ladda Duckworth
Aug. 2, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Seema Verma - Schakowsky & Blumenthal Urge CMS to Improve Quality Rating System for Nursing Homes Rep. Jan Schakowsky, ...
Aug. 2, 2018 Schneider Introduces Bill to Prevent Former Members of Congress Who Lobby from Abusing Congressional Privileges Rep. Brad Schneider
Aug. 2, 2018 Tweet - "Trump Admin officials told us this week that giving them the authority to indefinitely detain parents & kids together would help solve the crisis at the border they created. Locking up children in detention facilities isn't a solution, it's just more cruelty by this White House." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 2, 2018 Tweet - "The Department of Education urging a school to misrepresent its accreditation status to students would be scandalous. If true, this would represent a new level of betrayal of students by Sec. DeVos and her #4profit college cronies at the Department." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 2, 2018 Tweet - "The zero-tolerance immigration policy has been an unmitigated disaster from start to finish. The Trump Administration never kept sufficient records for the kids they forcibly separated from their parents, and seemingly had no intention to reunite them. Inexcusable." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 2, 2018 Tweet - "It's false to say that previous administrations had a policy of intentionally separating children from their parents. This policy began in April when AG Sessions ordered zero-tolerance. It started as a bright idea in the Trump White House and ended up being a disaster." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 1, 2018 MSNBC "All in with Chris Hayes" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Mike Quigley Rep. Mike Quigley
Aug. 1, 2018 Tweet - "These plans amount to junk and will hurt people with pre-existing conditions, older Americans, and anyone who actually needs health care. The Trump Administration is, once again, sabotaging our health care system with these plans." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 1, 2018 Letter to Hugh Hurwitz, Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons - Reverse Effort Placing Transgender Offenders at Risk for Sexual Assault Rep. Brad Schneider, ...
Aug. 1, 2018 Tweet - "Trump Administration ignored warnings from their agency's own public health experts that separating a child from his or her parent would cause trauma. Inexcusable, and nothing short of gross negligence." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 1, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Hon. Seema Verma, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - King, Colleagues Push Administration to Fund Efforts to Help Consumers Navigate Health Insurance Process Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
Aug. 1, 2018 Calling for the Release of Pastor Andrew Brunson Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 1, 2018 Tweet - "Medical experts have told us that an ICE detention center is no place for a child. DHS' own medical consultants say family detention poses a "high risk of harm to children and their families." It's not "summer camp."" Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 1, 2018 Immigration Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 1, 2018 Durbin Host Bipartisan Senators, NATO & Non-NATO Partner Ambassadors, Reaffirms America's Support In Face Of Russian Aggression Sen. Dick Durbin
July 31, 2018 Tweet - "On Secretary Nielsen's watch, nearly 2,700 children have been separated from their parents & more than 700 children still have not been reunited with their families -- including over 400 whose parents were apparently deported & more than 90 whose parents cannot be located at all." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 31, 2018 Letter to Bruce Rauner, Governor of Illinois - Reps. Quigley, Schakowsky, Gutiérrez, Davis, Rush, and Foster Urge Rauner to Reconsider Illinois' Participation in Crosscheck System Rep. Mike Quigley, ...
July 31, 2018 Tweet - "The Trump Admin's child separation policy is more than a bureaucratic lapse in judgment. It is -- and was -- a cruel policy inconsistent with the bedrock values of this nation. We can have border security without bullying. We can be safe without treating toddlers as terrorists." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 31, 2018 Tweet - "The Trump Administration should own up to its cruel decision to forcibly separate children at the border, and the humanitarian disaster that ensued in its aftermath. There is no one else to blame for this chaos." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 31, 2018 Letter to Dr. Robert R. Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Linda Sánchez Leads Bipartisan Letter to Help Secure CDC Funding for Major U.S. Cities to Fight Opioid Crisis Rep. Mike Quigley, ...
July 31, 2018 Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi's Bipartisan Bill To Reform Career, Technical, And Vocational Education Signed Into Law Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
July 31, 2018 Durbin Statement On Completion Of Internal Investigation Of Heartland Alliance Into Allegations Of Physical & Emotional Abuse At Chicago Facility Sen. Dick Durbin
July 31, 2018 Durbin Calls On DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen To Step Down In Wake Of Failure To Reunite "Deleted" Families Sen. Dick Durbin
July 31, 2018 Tweet - ""Government-sanctioned child abuse." That's what the American Academy of Pediatrics called President Trump's zero tolerance child separation policy, and this story shows why. It's heartbreaking." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 31, 2018 Tweet - "In the name of the 711 lost children, the families that have been "deleted" by her agency, and common decency, I'm calling on Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, the architect of this humanitarian disaster, to step down." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 30, 2018 Rep. LaHood Votes to Improve HSAs And Lower Healthcare Premiums Rep. Darin LaHood
July 30, 2018 Schneider Amendments to Support Small Business Research and Hold Iran Accountable Included in Final Passage of National Defense Authorization Act Rep. Brad Schneider
July 30, 2018 Schakowsky Introduces a Suite of Prescription Drug Pricing Bills Rep. Jan Schakowsky
Date Title Politician
Aug. 7, 2018 Letter to Attorney General Sessions and Secretary DeVos - Condemn Trump Administration For Rescinding Civil Rights Guidance Promoting Diversity In Education Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
Aug. 7, 2018 Tweet - "I continue to urge HUD to quickly implement the recommendations made in the Inspector General's report to improve oversight and administration of public housing authorities. No one should have their access to safe and healthy housing threatened as a result of HUD's inaction." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 6, 2018 After Allegations Of Child Abuse At Shelter For Unaccompanied Minors, Duckworth Tours Facility Housing Children Separated By Trump's "Zero Tolerance" Policy Sen.Ladda Duckworth
Aug. 6, 2018 Durbin Statement On President Trump's Decision To Re-Impose Sanctions On Iran Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 6, 2018 Letter to The Hon. Rob Bishop and The Hon. Raul Grijalva - Letter Asks Natural Resources Committee for Hearing on Quigley, Upton Legislation in Support of Great Lakes Fisheries Rep.Jan Schakowsky, ...
Aug. 6, 2018 Letter to the Hon. L. Francis Cissna, Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services - Members of Congress Probe DHS over Circumstances Leading to TPS Termination for Nepal and Honduras Rep.Jan Schakowsky, ...
Aug. 6, 2018 MSNBC "All in with Chris Hayes" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Mike Quigley Rep.Mike Quigley
Aug. 6, 2018 Tweet - "It's alarming to hear about the Saudi government's latest crackdown on peaceful activists. I have long called for the release of journalists like Raif Badawi, and human rights defenders like Waleed Abu al-Khair." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 6, 2018 Tweet - "It's alarming to hear about the Saudi government's latest crackdown on peaceful activists. I have long called for the release of journalists like Raif Badawi, and human rights defenders like Waleed Abu al-Khair." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 6, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Jeff Sessions, US Attorney General, and the Hon. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education - Senate Democrats Condemn Trump Administration for Rescinding Civil Rights Guidance Promoting Diversity in Education Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
Aug. 4, 2018 Tweet - "The Trump Administration should be pointing the finger at themselves. They created this humanitarian disaster, and it's their responsibility to solve it by reuniting the kids who were forcibly separated from their parents at the border." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 4, 2018 Tweet - "Federal judge, appointed by Pres. George W. Bush, ruled that the Trump Admin's justification for terminating #DACA was "conclusory" and "accompanied by a hodgepodge of illogical or post hoc policy assertions."" Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 3, 2018 Tweet - "When we call the press "fake news" or tell people not to pay attention to them, it discredits an important part of America's democracy. It takes a free press to hold politicians of both parties accountable. That's their job, and it's more important now than ever before." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 3, 2018 Letter to Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State and Mark Green, U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator - Feinstein, Senators to Trump Administration: Restore Aid to Palestinians in Gaza Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
Aug. 3, 2018 Hirono Introduces Legislation to Protect Medicare and Medicaid from Partisan Attacks Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
Aug. 3, 2018 Tweet - "Nearly 600. This is completely unacceptable. I won't rest until the Trump Administration reunites every child who was forcibly separated and is held responsible for this zero-tolerance humanitarian disaster." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 3, 2018 Tweet - "President Trump and Congressional Republicans padded the pockets of Big Pharma with their tax bill. What are they doing about holding Big Pharma accountable for skyrocketing drug costs that are hurting middle class families? American patients deserve lower costs too." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 2, 2018 Tweet - "What is the Trump Administration doing to reunite the 711 "lost" children with their parents, who were forcibly removed from their mothers & fathers at the border? We cannot rest until every child is safely back in their parents' arms." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 2, 2018 Letter to Michael Pompeo, Secretary of State - Reinstate TPS for El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti Rep.Robin Kelly, ...
Aug. 2, 2018 Letter to the Honorable Trey Gowdy, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and the Honorable Mark Meadows, Chairman of House Government Operation Subcommittee - Hearing Request with Commerce Secretary on Misleading Census Testimony Rep.Robin Kelly, ...
Aug. 2, 2018 Letter to Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior - Senators to Zinke: Staking and Developing New Mining Claims Within National Monuments Is Illegal Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
Aug. 2, 2018 Duckworth Statement On Trump Administration Proposal To Roll Back Federal Fuel Efficiency Standards Sen.Ladda Duckworth
Aug. 2, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Seema Verma - Schakowsky & Blumenthal Urge CMS to Improve Quality Rating System for Nursing Homes Rep.Jan Schakowsky, ...
Aug. 2, 2018 Schneider Introduces Bill to Prevent Former Members of Congress Who Lobby from Abusing Congressional Privileges Rep.Brad Schneider
Aug. 2, 2018 Tweet - "Trump Admin officials told us this week that giving them the authority to indefinitely detain parents & kids together would help solve the crisis at the border they created. Locking up children in detention facilities isn't a solution, it's just more cruelty by this White House." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 2, 2018 Tweet - "The Department of Education urging a school to misrepresent its accreditation status to students would be scandalous. If true, this would represent a new level of betrayal of students by Sec. DeVos and her #4profit college cronies at the Department." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 2, 2018 Tweet - "The zero-tolerance immigration policy has been an unmitigated disaster from start to finish. The Trump Administration never kept sufficient records for the kids they forcibly separated from their parents, and seemingly had no intention to reunite them. Inexcusable." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 2, 2018 Tweet - "It's false to say that previous administrations had a policy of intentionally separating children from their parents. This policy began in April when AG Sessions ordered zero-tolerance. It started as a bright idea in the Trump White House and ended up being a disaster." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 1, 2018 MSNBC "All in with Chris Hayes" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Mike Quigley Rep.Mike Quigley
Aug. 1, 2018 Tweet - "These plans amount to junk and will hurt people with pre-existing conditions, older Americans, and anyone who actually needs health care. The Trump Administration is, once again, sabotaging our health care system with these plans." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 1, 2018 Letter to Hugh Hurwitz, Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons - Reverse Effort Placing Transgender Offenders at Risk for Sexual Assault Rep.Brad Schneider, ...
Aug. 1, 2018 Tweet - "Trump Administration ignored warnings from their agency's own public health experts that separating a child from his or her parent would cause trauma. Inexcusable, and nothing short of gross negligence." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 1, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Hon. Seema Verma, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - King, Colleagues Push Administration to Fund Efforts to Help Consumers Navigate Health Insurance Process Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
Aug. 1, 2018 Calling for the Release of Pastor Andrew Brunson Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 1, 2018 Tweet - "Medical experts have told us that an ICE detention center is no place for a child. DHS' own medical consultants say family detention poses a "high risk of harm to children and their families." It's not "summer camp."" Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 1, 2018 Immigration Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 1, 2018 Durbin Host Bipartisan Senators, NATO & Non-NATO Partner Ambassadors, Reaffirms America's Support In Face Of Russian Aggression Sen.Dick Durbin
July 31, 2018 Tweet - "On Secretary Nielsen's watch, nearly 2,700 children have been separated from their parents & more than 700 children still have not been reunited with their families -- including over 400 whose parents were apparently deported & more than 90 whose parents cannot be located at all." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 31, 2018 Letter to Bruce Rauner, Governor of Illinois - Reps. Quigley, Schakowsky, Gutiérrez, Davis, Rush, and Foster Urge Rauner to Reconsider Illinois' Participation in Crosscheck System Rep.Mike Quigley, ...
July 31, 2018 Tweet - "The Trump Admin's child separation policy is more than a bureaucratic lapse in judgment. It is -- and was -- a cruel policy inconsistent with the bedrock values of this nation. We can have border security without bullying. We can be safe without treating toddlers as terrorists." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 31, 2018 Tweet - "The Trump Administration should own up to its cruel decision to forcibly separate children at the border, and the humanitarian disaster that ensued in its aftermath. There is no one else to blame for this chaos." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 31, 2018 Letter to Dr. Robert R. Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Linda Sánchez Leads Bipartisan Letter to Help Secure CDC Funding for Major U.S. Cities to Fight Opioid Crisis Rep.Mike Quigley, ...
July 31, 2018 Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi's Bipartisan Bill To Reform Career, Technical, And Vocational Education Signed Into Law Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
July 31, 2018 Durbin Statement On Completion Of Internal Investigation Of Heartland Alliance Into Allegations Of Physical & Emotional Abuse At Chicago Facility Sen.Dick Durbin
July 31, 2018 Durbin Calls On DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen To Step Down In Wake Of Failure To Reunite "Deleted" Families Sen.Dick Durbin
July 31, 2018 Tweet - ""Government-sanctioned child abuse." That's what the American Academy of Pediatrics called President Trump's zero tolerance child separation policy, and this story shows why. It's heartbreaking." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 31, 2018 Tweet - "In the name of the 711 lost children, the families that have been "deleted" by her agency, and common decency, I'm calling on Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, the architect of this humanitarian disaster, to step down." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 30, 2018 Rep. LaHood Votes to Improve HSAs And Lower Healthcare Premiums Rep.Darin LaHood
July 30, 2018 Schneider Amendments to Support Small Business Research and Hold Iran Accountable Included in Final Passage of National Defense Authorization Act Rep.Brad Schneider
July 30, 2018 Schakowsky Introduces a Suite of Prescription Drug Pricing Bills Rep.Jan Schakowsky
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