Dick Durbin
Dick Durbin
Richard Joseph "Dick" Durbinis the senior United States Senator from Illinois, in office since 1997. He has been the Assistant Minority Leader, the second highest position in the Democratic Party leadership in the Senate, since 2015...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 November 1944
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A proud day for Chicago and a great day for Washington.
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Apparently the White House believes she doesn't have any burden to prove she deserves a lifetime appointment.
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I hope it does bring the Senate together, ... before a second was recognized and to go into a quorum call that could have lasted 'til Thursday.
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I hope and I pray that nothing happens in this country between now and the time we take these bills up.
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I offer my apologies to those that were offended by my words.
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I'm hoping that (the president and Congress are) sensitive to what consumers are needing,
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Nothing should ever be said to demean or diminish that moral tragedy, ... I'm also sorry if anything I said, in any way, cast a negative light on our fine men and women in the military.
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at this time in light of the national security interests in question.
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If you've made one point many times over during the course of the last three days, it is that as a judge you will be loyal and faithful to the process of law, to the rule of law. But, beyond loyalty to the process of law how do you view the law when it comes to expanding our personal freedoms?
sorry
I'm sorry that this wasn't done years and years ago,
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At the very least, Mr. Gonzales helped to create a permissive environment that made it more likely that abuses would take place.
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Oh, my goodness. The July 10th Phoenix memo. We're turning this over to Congress. The whole world's going to see this.
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I wanted to make certain that no conflicts of interest would have prevented Mr. Flanigan from performing his duties,
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It's an increase directly attributable to profit-taking by the oil companies,