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Aug. 13, 2018 Letter to Christopher Wray, Director of the FBI - Congressman Krishnamoorthi Asks FBI Director Wray's Assurance That Strzok Firing Did Not Occur At The Urging Of The White House Or Attorney General Sessions Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
Aug. 11, 2018 Tweet - "I remain deeply troubled by the brutality toward political opposition and the spiral toward dictatorship and collapse in Venezuela. The path forward is to release all political prisoners and hold legitimate elections." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 10, 2018 Tweet - "It's been a month and a half since a judge ordered the Trump Admin to reunite the families it separated. How are there still over 500 kids yet to see their parents? The zero-tolerance policy, and this incompetent attempt to reunite children, is a stain on our great nation." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 9, 2018 Tweet - "AG Sessions and DHS Sec. Nielsen are doing all they can to make it harder for immigrant victims of domestic violence and gang violence to gain safety. We have to hold this anti-immigrant White House accountable every step of the way." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 9, 2018 Tweet - ""The voice of Congress in the face of ethnic cleansing has been muffled." Senator McConnell must stop blocking bipartisan efforts to hold those accountable for the horrible violence against the Rohingya." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 9, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Trey Gowdy - Subpoena for State Department Docs Withheld from Congress After Bipartisan Request Rep. Robin Kelly, ...
Aug. 8, 2018 In Central Illinois, Durbin Touts Legislation That Will Support Rural EMS Agencies Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 8, 2018 Tweet - "In small towns across our state, fire departments and EMS agencies are a critical lifeline to the health care system. The SIREN Act would provide federal funding to help rural EMS agencies train and recruit staff, purchase equipment, and more: https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/in-central-illinois-durbin-touts-legislation-that-will-support-rural-ems-agencies- …" 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 Durbin Statement On President Trump's Decision To Re-Impose Sanctions On Iran 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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 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 - "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. Mike Quigley, ...
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. 2, 2018 Letter to James Mattis, Secretary of Defense - Duckworth: Why Did DOD Use Japanese Internment Camp Ruling to Justify Actions? Sen. Ladda Duckworth
Aug. 1, 2018 Immigration Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 1, 2018 MSNBC "All in with Chris Hayes" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Mike Quigley Rep. Mike Quigley
Aug. 1, 2018 Durbin Host Bipartisan Senators, NATO & Non-NATO Partner Ambassadors, Reaffirms America's Support In Face Of Russian Aggression Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 1, 2018 Tweet - "As DNI Coats said, the warning lights are blinking red again. Why did Senate Republicans turn down this help for states to prepare for future election attacks? Republican leadership has not taken this threat seriously -- not in 2016 and not today." 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 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 Calling for the Release of Pastor Andrew Brunson 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 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 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 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 - "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 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. Bill Foster, ...
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 31, 2018 Duckworth Helps Introduce Bill To Block Publication of 3D Printable Firearm Blueprints Sen. Ladda Duckworth
July 30, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State and Ambassador John Bolton, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs - House Democrats Call on Trump Administration to Address Growing Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Rep. Jan Schakowsky, ...
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 29, 2018 Tweet - ".@hunsencambodia and his thugs threatening the voters of #Cambodia does not make a free and fair election." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 29, 2018 Tweet - "A combination of cruelty and incompetence by the Trump Administration brought us to this day. Now they must reunite the 711 "deleted" children still separated from their parents. We will not rest until they do." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 27, 2018 Tweet - "This weekend marks 100 days until the midterm elections, yet we haven't properly held Russia accountable for its 2016 attack & efforts to interfere this year. The National Security Council has to send a strong message today when they meet." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 27, 2018 Letter to the Hon. L. Francis Cissna, Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services - Designate TPS for Guatemala and Nicaragua Rep. Mike Quigley, ...
July 27, 2018 Tweet - "Allowing criminals and terrorists to have access to 3D firearm blueprints is incredibly irresponsible. I'm urging the Trump Administration to reconsider its dangerous decision." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 27, 2018 Tweet - "One in three children who were forcibly removed from their parents arms remain separated today. The United States of America is a caring and compassionate nation, but this humanitarian disaster created by our President has tarnished our reputation around the world." Sen. Dick Durbin
July 27, 2018 Congressman Krishnamoorthi On Trump Administration's Family Separation And Detention Policy: "A Mockery Of American Values" Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
July 27, 2018 Letter to John Bolton, National Security Advisor - Ahead of Today's Election Security Meeting, Klobuchar leads letter Urging National Security Council to hold Russia Accountable, Improve Federal Coordination, and Support States Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
July 26, 2018 Reps. Rice, Quiqley Introduce JOLT Act to Expand International Tourism to the U.S. & Increase National Security Rep. Mike Quigley, ...
Date Title Politician
Aug. 13, 2018 Letter to Christopher Wray, Director of the FBI - Congressman Krishnamoorthi Asks FBI Director Wray's Assurance That Strzok Firing Did Not Occur At The Urging Of The White House Or Attorney General Sessions Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
Aug. 11, 2018 Tweet - "I remain deeply troubled by the brutality toward political opposition and the spiral toward dictatorship and collapse in Venezuela. The path forward is to release all political prisoners and hold legitimate elections." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 10, 2018 Tweet - "It's been a month and a half since a judge ordered the Trump Admin to reunite the families it separated. How are there still over 500 kids yet to see their parents? The zero-tolerance policy, and this incompetent attempt to reunite children, is a stain on our great nation." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 9, 2018 Tweet - "AG Sessions and DHS Sec. Nielsen are doing all they can to make it harder for immigrant victims of domestic violence and gang violence to gain safety. We have to hold this anti-immigrant White House accountable every step of the way." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 9, 2018 Tweet - ""The voice of Congress in the face of ethnic cleansing has been muffled." Senator McConnell must stop blocking bipartisan efforts to hold those accountable for the horrible violence against the Rohingya." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 9, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Trey Gowdy - Subpoena for State Department Docs Withheld from Congress After Bipartisan Request Rep.Robin Kelly, ...
Aug. 8, 2018 In Central Illinois, Durbin Touts Legislation That Will Support Rural EMS Agencies Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 8, 2018 Tweet - "In small towns across our state, fire departments and EMS agencies are a critical lifeline to the health care system. The SIREN Act would provide federal funding to help rural EMS agencies train and recruit staff, purchase equipment, and more: https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/in-central-illinois-durbin-touts-legislation-that-will-support-rural-ems-agencies- …" 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 Durbin Statement On President Trump's Decision To Re-Impose Sanctions On Iran 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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 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 - "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.Mike Quigley, ...
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. 2, 2018 Letter to James Mattis, Secretary of Defense - Duckworth: Why Did DOD Use Japanese Internment Camp Ruling to Justify Actions? Sen.Ladda Duckworth
Aug. 1, 2018 Immigration Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 1, 2018 MSNBC "All in with Chris Hayes" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Mike Quigley Rep.Mike Quigley
Aug. 1, 2018 Durbin Host Bipartisan Senators, NATO & Non-NATO Partner Ambassadors, Reaffirms America's Support In Face Of Russian Aggression Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 1, 2018 Tweet - "As DNI Coats said, the warning lights are blinking red again. Why did Senate Republicans turn down this help for states to prepare for future election attacks? Republican leadership has not taken this threat seriously -- not in 2016 and not today." 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 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 Calling for the Release of Pastor Andrew Brunson 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 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 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 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 - "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 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.Bill Foster, ...
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 31, 2018 Duckworth Helps Introduce Bill To Block Publication of 3D Printable Firearm Blueprints Sen.Ladda Duckworth
July 30, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State and Ambassador John Bolton, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs - House Democrats Call on Trump Administration to Address Growing Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Rep.Jan Schakowsky, ...
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 29, 2018 Tweet - ".@hunsencambodia and his thugs threatening the voters of #Cambodia does not make a free and fair election." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 29, 2018 Tweet - "A combination of cruelty and incompetence by the Trump Administration brought us to this day. Now they must reunite the 711 "deleted" children still separated from their parents. We will not rest until they do." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 27, 2018 Tweet - "This weekend marks 100 days until the midterm elections, yet we haven't properly held Russia accountable for its 2016 attack & efforts to interfere this year. The National Security Council has to send a strong message today when they meet." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 27, 2018 Letter to the Hon. L. Francis Cissna, Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services - Designate TPS for Guatemala and Nicaragua Rep.Mike Quigley, ...
July 27, 2018 Tweet - "Allowing criminals and terrorists to have access to 3D firearm blueprints is incredibly irresponsible. I'm urging the Trump Administration to reconsider its dangerous decision." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 27, 2018 Tweet - "One in three children who were forcibly removed from their parents arms remain separated today. The United States of America is a caring and compassionate nation, but this humanitarian disaster created by our President has tarnished our reputation around the world." Sen.Dick Durbin
July 27, 2018 Congressman Krishnamoorthi On Trump Administration's Family Separation And Detention Policy: "A Mockery Of American Values" Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
July 27, 2018 Letter to John Bolton, National Security Advisor - Ahead of Today's Election Security Meeting, Klobuchar leads letter Urging National Security Council to hold Russia Accountable, Improve Federal Coordination, and Support States Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
July 26, 2018 Reps. Rice, Quiqley Introduce JOLT Act to Expand International Tourism to the U.S. & Increase National Security Rep.Mike Quigley, ...
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