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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If this is just a process, a legal contest and you'll play for any team that asks you to play, it raises a question about where would you draw the line, if you would ever draw the line.
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may be a very competent individual. But how in the world can we get to the truth of the question as to what went wrong with Hurricane Katrina -- how can we really hope to discover the incompetence that led to all this human suffering and devastation -- if the administration is going to investigate itself?
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Whenever we asked Judge Roberts basic questions about his moral compass and his life experience, he declined to answer.
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We have lost over 2,000 of our best and bravest. Over 15,000 have been seriously wounded, ... We are spending more than $6 billion a month, with no end in sight. And this Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee refuses to even ask the hard questions about the misinformation and disinformation given to the American people, and the efforts made by the members of this administration to cover it up.
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It goes to the question of what the goal is here. Is it regime change in Iraq or regime change in the Senate?
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really raises serious questions about the consistency of the policy.
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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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it would have put millions of American consumers and families at risk of losing coverage for necessary health care.
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We do not want to end the Patriot Act. We want to mend the Patriot Act.
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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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This opportunity is slipping through our hands like grains of sand.
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There's more candor this time around, which helps, but I'm still looking at some of the basic questions,
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We are the largest magnet for this level of talent in the world.
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I worry... he will tip the balance of the scales of justice. He will tip the balance against protecting our basic privacy and personal freedoms. He will tip the balance in favor of presidential power even when it violates the law.