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July 9, 2018
Duckworth Statement on Nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to Supreme Court
Sen. Ladda Duckworth
July 9, 2018
Duckworth Statement on Trump Administration's Opposition to World Health Assembly Breastfeeding Resolution
Sen. Ladda Duckworth
July 9, 2018
Rep. LaHood's Statement on the Nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court
Rep. Darin LaHood
July 8, 2018
NBC News "Meet the Press" - Transcript: Supreme Court
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 5, 2018
Tweet - "We now know Trump's cruel and immoral policy has separated more than 4,100 children from their parents. I won't stop demanding answers until every family is reunited."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 3, 2018
Tweet - "The government has a legal & moral obligation to ensure that each of these kids can be located by, and quickly reunited with, his or her parents. The Trump Administration took these children away from their parents. They must fully comply with the court's order and reunite them."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 2, 2018
Tweet - "The Supreme Court affects every American. We've already seen President Trump stacking courts with nominees far outside the mainstream. The highest court in the land shouldn't be a tool of ideological agendas. #CourtsMatter #WhatsAtStake."
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 2, 2018
Tweet - "136 mayors from 34 different states -- both Democrats and Republicans -- agree that #FamiliesBelongTogether. It's time for the Trump Administration to listen to the overwhelming majority of Americans who want zero tolerance to end. https://filemanager.capwiz.com/filemanager/file-mgr/usmayors/USCM_Letter_on_Family_Reunification_07022018__1_.pdf "
Sen. Dick Durbin
July 1, 2018
CNN "State of the Union" - Transcript: Interview With Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth
Sen. Ladda Duckworth
July 1, 2018
Fox News "Fox News Sunday" - Transcript: Interview with Senator Dick Durbin
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 30, 2018
Bill Foster for Congress's Statement on the Families Belong Together Rally
Rep. Bill Foster
June 30, 2018
Tweet - "ICE should be deporting dangerous felons, not toddlers and immigrant families fleeing danger. #FamiliesBelongTogether"
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 30, 2018
CNN "CNN Newsroom" - Transcript: Interview with Dick Durbin
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 30, 2018
Tweet - "It's heartening to see this outpouring of support for immigrant families who've been impacted by this administration's cruel policies. The message is clear: #FamiliesBelongTogether"
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 30, 2018
Tweet - "It's clear that ICE is unprepared and seemingly unwilling to reunite the infants and kids they forcibly removed at the border. We need a different solution to this humanitarian crisis."
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 29, 2018
Tweet - "Hundreds of infants and toddlers have been taken from their parents by our government, but ICE can only match ten parents to their child as of now. Cruelty and incompetence at work by the Trump Administration."
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 29, 2018
Tweet - "Hundreds of infants and toddlers have been taken from their parents by our government, but ICE can only match ten parents to their child as of now. Cruelty and incompetence at work by the Trump Administration."
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 29, 2018
Tweet - "Calling on the Administration for a public accounting of the progress of reuniting children with their parents. Every day of delay is a bad day for these kids and their parents."
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 29, 2018
Tweet - "It was clear from my meeting yesterday that the Administration is working harder to stop the court-ordered reunification of these families than returning the kids. In the well-worn words of President Trump: sad."
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 29, 2018
Letter to Donald Trump - Comply With Court Order, Reunite Families Separated By Trump's "Zero Tolerance" Policy
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 29, 2018
Tweet - "I received a briefing yesterday where Trump officials refused to commit to reuniting families. They could not say how many families have been separated and said they only have plans to reunite 10 parents in their custody with children under 5. Outrageous."
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 29, 2018
Letter to Mr. John Kelly, Acting DHS Inspector General - Call for Investigation into Potentially Unlawful Actions by DHS at the Borders
Rep. Danny Davis, ...
June 28, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Hon. Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security, the Hon. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education, and the Hon. Jeff Sessions, US Attorney General - Demand Answers Regarding Unaccompanied Minors in Administration's Custody
Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi, ...
June 28, 2018
Letter to the Honorable Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security, the Honorable Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Honorable Jefferson Sessions, Attorney General - Answers on Trump Administration's Zero Tolerance Policy, Plans to Reunite Families
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
June 28, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Jeff Sessions, Attorney General, the Hon. Kirstjen Nielsen Secretary of Homeland Security, the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Comply with Injunction, Reunite Families Separated at Border
Rep. Danny Davis, ...
June 28, 2018
Ernst, Duckworth, Black, Cohen Advocate for WWII U.S. Army Ranger Congressional Gold Medal
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
June 28, 2018
Vote Explanation
Sen. Ladda Duckworth
June 27, 2018
Letter to Secretary Alex M. Azar II, Department of Health and Human Services, and Director Scott Lloyd, Office of Refugee Resettlement - Answers Regarding Allegations of Abuse Toward Migrant Children in Custody
Rep. Robin Kelly, ...
June 27, 2018
Letter to the Honorable Donald Trump, President - Feinstein, Colleagues Urge President Trump to Preserve Family Planning Program
Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
June 27, 2018
Tweet - "The way we treat the people at our borders is a message to the world. We have to be humane, civilized, and caring #FamiliesBelongTogether."
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 27, 2018
Durbin Statement On Janus V. AFSCME Supreme Court Decision
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 27, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Daniel Levinson, Office of Inspector General Department of Health and Human Services - Inspector General Launches Inquiry After Senators Murray, Cantwell Demand Investigation of Health Department's Treatment of Children Separated from Parents Under President Trump's Policy
Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
June 27, 2018
Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 27, 2018
Duckworth Statement on Janus v AFSCME Supreme Court Decision
Sen. Ladda Duckworth
June 27, 2018
Bost Statement On Defeat Of Immigration Reform
Rep. Mike Bost
June 27, 2018
Foster Statement On Border Security and Immigration Reform Act
Rep. Bill Foster
June 27, 2018
Foster Statement on Janus v. AFSCME Decision
Rep. Bill Foster
June 27, 2018
Letter to the Honorable Alex Azar, Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Honorable Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security - Duckworth Calls on HHS & DHS to Reunite Families Separated Under Trump's Zero Tolerance Policy
Sen. Ladda Duckworth
June 27, 2018
Statement On Justice Kennedy Retirement
Rep. Brad Schneider
June 27, 2018
Statement On Supreme Court Ruling In Janus V. AFSCME
Rep. Brad Schneider
June 27, 2018
Schakowsky Statement On The Supreme Court's Decision In Janus v. AFSCME
Rep. Jan Schakowsky
June 27, 2018
Quigley Statement On Janus v. ASFME Decision
Rep. Mike Quigley
June 27, 2018
Tweet - "Our police know that detaining families seeking safety is inhumane and cruel and doesn't make us safer. The process at our Southern border must be orderly and caring, and align with our American values #FamiliesBelongTogether."
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 27, 2018
Tweet - "The Trump Administration's "zero tolerance' policy harms kids and must be stopped. It's time to close this embarrassing chapter in our nation's history once and for all."
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 27, 2018
Durbin Statement On Court Order Blocking Trump Child Separation Policy
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 27, 2018
Sean Casten Supports American Unions
Rep. Sean Casten
June 27, 2018
Tweet - "With so much at stake for the people of our country, the U.S. Senate must be consistent and consider the President's #SCOTUS nominee once the new Congress is seated in January."
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 27, 2018
Tweet - "Glad HHS answered @SenateDems request by taking this important step for the health and well being of these children. We need full transparency about what's happening under Trump's "zero tolerance" policy #FamiliesBelongTogether."
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 27, 2018
Durbin Statement On Retirement Of Justice Kennedy
Sen. Dick Durbin
June 26, 2018
Tweet - "I agree with Justice Sotomayor: this decision fails to safeguard the principle of religious neutrality embedded in our Bill of Rights. History will not be kind to this president's policies or the #SCOTUS Justices who lent their names to this troubling ruling."
Sen. Dick Durbin
Date
Title
Politician
July 9, 2018
Duckworth Statement on Nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to Supreme Court
Sen.Ladda Duckworth
July 9, 2018
Duckworth Statement on Trump Administration's Opposition to World Health Assembly Breastfeeding Resolution
Sen.Ladda Duckworth
July 9, 2018
Rep. LaHood's Statement on the Nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court
Rep.Darin LaHood
July 8, 2018
NBC News "Meet the Press" - Transcript: Supreme Court
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 5, 2018
Tweet - "We now know Trump's cruel and immoral policy has separated more than 4,100 children from their parents. I won't stop demanding answers until every family is reunited."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 3, 2018
Tweet - "The government has a legal & moral obligation to ensure that each of these kids can be located by, and quickly reunited with, his or her parents. The Trump Administration took these children away from their parents. They must fully comply with the court's order and reunite them."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 2, 2018
Tweet - "The Supreme Court affects every American. We've already seen President Trump stacking courts with nominees far outside the mainstream. The highest court in the land shouldn't be a tool of ideological agendas. #CourtsMatter #WhatsAtStake."
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 2, 2018
Tweet - "136 mayors from 34 different states -- both Democrats and Republicans -- agree that #FamiliesBelongTogether. It's time for the Trump Administration to listen to the overwhelming majority of Americans who want zero tolerance to end. https://filemanager.capwiz.com/filemanager/file-mgr/usmayors/USCM_Letter_on_Family_Reunification_07022018__1_.pdf "
Sen.Dick Durbin
July 1, 2018
CNN "State of the Union" - Transcript: Interview With Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth
Sen.Ladda Duckworth
July 1, 2018
Fox News "Fox News Sunday" - Transcript: Interview with Senator Dick Durbin
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 30, 2018
Bill Foster for Congress's Statement on the Families Belong Together Rally
Rep.Bill Foster
June 30, 2018
Tweet - "ICE should be deporting dangerous felons, not toddlers and immigrant families fleeing danger. #FamiliesBelongTogether"
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 30, 2018
CNN "CNN Newsroom" - Transcript: Interview with Dick Durbin
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 30, 2018
Tweet - "It's heartening to see this outpouring of support for immigrant families who've been impacted by this administration's cruel policies. The message is clear: #FamiliesBelongTogether"
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 30, 2018
Tweet - "It's clear that ICE is unprepared and seemingly unwilling to reunite the infants and kids they forcibly removed at the border. We need a different solution to this humanitarian crisis."
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 29, 2018
Tweet - "Hundreds of infants and toddlers have been taken from their parents by our government, but ICE can only match ten parents to their child as of now. Cruelty and incompetence at work by the Trump Administration."
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 29, 2018
Tweet - "Hundreds of infants and toddlers have been taken from their parents by our government, but ICE can only match ten parents to their child as of now. Cruelty and incompetence at work by the Trump Administration."
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 29, 2018
Tweet - "Calling on the Administration for a public accounting of the progress of reuniting children with their parents. Every day of delay is a bad day for these kids and their parents."
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 29, 2018
Tweet - "It was clear from my meeting yesterday that the Administration is working harder to stop the court-ordered reunification of these families than returning the kids. In the well-worn words of President Trump: sad."
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 29, 2018
Letter to Donald Trump - Comply With Court Order, Reunite Families Separated By Trump's "Zero Tolerance" Policy
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 29, 2018
Tweet - "I received a briefing yesterday where Trump officials refused to commit to reuniting families. They could not say how many families have been separated and said they only have plans to reunite 10 parents in their custody with children under 5. Outrageous."
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 29, 2018
Letter to Mr. John Kelly, Acting DHS Inspector General - Call for Investigation into Potentially Unlawful Actions by DHS at the Borders
Rep.Danny Davis, ...
June 28, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Hon. Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security, the Hon. Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education, and the Hon. Jeff Sessions, US Attorney General - Demand Answers Regarding Unaccompanied Minors in Administration's Custody
Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi, ...
June 28, 2018
Letter to the Honorable Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security, the Honorable Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Honorable Jefferson Sessions, Attorney General - Answers on Trump Administration's Zero Tolerance Policy, Plans to Reunite Families
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
June 28, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Jeff Sessions, Attorney General, the Hon. Kirstjen Nielsen Secretary of Homeland Security, the Hon. Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Comply with Injunction, Reunite Families Separated at Border
Rep.Danny Davis, ...
June 28, 2018
Ernst, Duckworth, Black, Cohen Advocate for WWII U.S. Army Ranger Congressional Gold Medal
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
June 28, 2018
Vote Explanation
Sen.Ladda Duckworth
June 27, 2018
Letter to Secretary Alex M. Azar II, Department of Health and Human Services, and Director Scott Lloyd, Office of Refugee Resettlement - Answers Regarding Allegations of Abuse Toward Migrant Children in Custody
Rep.Robin Kelly, ...
June 27, 2018
Letter to the Honorable Donald Trump, President - Feinstein, Colleagues Urge President Trump to Preserve Family Planning Program
Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
June 27, 2018
Tweet - "The way we treat the people at our borders is a message to the world. We have to be humane, civilized, and caring #FamiliesBelongTogether."
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 27, 2018
Durbin Statement On Janus V. AFSCME Supreme Court Decision
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 27, 2018
Letter to the Hon. Daniel Levinson, Office of Inspector General Department of Health and Human Services - Inspector General Launches Inquiry After Senators Murray, Cantwell Demand Investigation of Health Department's Treatment of Children Separated from Parents Under President Trump's Policy
Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
June 27, 2018
Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 27, 2018
Duckworth Statement on Janus v AFSCME Supreme Court Decision
Sen.Ladda Duckworth
June 27, 2018
Bost Statement On Defeat Of Immigration Reform
Rep.Mike Bost
June 27, 2018
Foster Statement On Border Security and Immigration Reform Act
Rep.Bill Foster
June 27, 2018
Foster Statement on Janus v. AFSCME Decision
Rep.Bill Foster
June 27, 2018
Letter to the Honorable Alex Azar, Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Honorable Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security - Duckworth Calls on HHS & DHS to Reunite Families Separated Under Trump's Zero Tolerance Policy
Sen.Ladda Duckworth
June 27, 2018
Statement On Justice Kennedy Retirement
Rep.Brad Schneider
June 27, 2018
Statement On Supreme Court Ruling In Janus V. AFSCME
Rep.Brad Schneider
June 27, 2018
Schakowsky Statement On The Supreme Court's Decision In Janus v. AFSCME
Rep.Jan Schakowsky
June 27, 2018
Quigley Statement On Janus v. ASFME Decision
Rep.Mike Quigley
June 27, 2018
Tweet - "Our police know that detaining families seeking safety is inhumane and cruel and doesn't make us safer. The process at our Southern border must be orderly and caring, and align with our American values #FamiliesBelongTogether."
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 27, 2018
Tweet - "The Trump Administration's "zero tolerance' policy harms kids and must be stopped. It's time to close this embarrassing chapter in our nation's history once and for all."
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 27, 2018
Durbin Statement On Court Order Blocking Trump Child Separation Policy
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 27, 2018
Sean Casten Supports American Unions
Rep.Sean Casten
June 27, 2018
Tweet - "With so much at stake for the people of our country, the U.S. Senate must be consistent and consider the President's #SCOTUS nominee once the new Congress is seated in January."
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 27, 2018
Tweet - "Glad HHS answered @SenateDems request by taking this important step for the health and well being of these children. We need full transparency about what's happening under Trump's "zero tolerance" policy #FamiliesBelongTogether."
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 27, 2018
Durbin Statement On Retirement Of Justice Kennedy
Sen.Dick Durbin
June 26, 2018
Tweet - "I agree with Justice Sotomayor: this decision fails to safeguard the principle of religious neutrality embedded in our Bill of Rights. History will not be kind to this president's policies or the #SCOTUS Justices who lent their names to this troubling ruling."
Sen.Dick Durbin
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