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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He said he spent more time worrying over and working on that decision,
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really raises serious questions about the consistency of the policy.
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He wants to work with people around the world, and he couldn't work with people in his own office. And he's supposed to be open, as our man at the U.N., to ideas from other people. And he's been a real tyrant when it came to people he worked with, who disagreed with him. This man doesn't have the temperament for this job.
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When his party turned on him, he was in trouble and she was in trouble.
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Some of the opinions that he's handed down are controversial decisions: deciding that the Family and Medical Leave Act did not apply to state employees; authorizing a strip search in a situation involving a mother and her 10-year-old daughter; questions involving the rights of privacy,
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Some (of them) say, 'What's next?' ... They want to find out as much as they can about the real life of Lincoln.
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at this time in light of the national security interests in question.
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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'm sorry that this wasn't done years and years ago,
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I'm hoping that (the president and Congress are) sensitive to what consumers are needing,
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There was a one-third increase in federal funds over the next five years coming back to Illinois, ... That doesn't happen very often.
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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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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?