Dick Durbin
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 20: Senate Judiciary Committee members Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) (C) and Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) (back to camera) talke during a markup session for the immigration reform legislation in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill May 20, 2013 in Washington, DC. The Judiciary Committee is hoping to wrap up work on the landmark immigration reform bill this week after wading through the 300 amendments that were filed to the bipartisan bill.
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I don't believe many, if any, of us believed when we voted for that — and I did vote for it — that we were voting for the longest war in the history of the United States and putting a stamp of approval on a war policy against terrorism that, 10 years-plus later, we're still using
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Senate panel approves immigration bill
the bill's demise."I believe in my heart of hearts that what you're doing is the right and just thing," said one, Sen. Richard Durbin , D-Ill. "But I believe this is the wrong moment, that this is the wrong bill."Sen. Chuck Schumer , the New York Democrat 5/21/13 Read more »
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Senators to add high-tech visas, dispute details
say, with disputes flaring over how best to punish companies that train workers here only to ship them overseas. Sen. Dick Durbin , D-Ill., who's taken the lead in pushing to crack down on outsourcing firms, also is seeking higher wages for workers brought Read more »
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Immigration Bill Advances, but Without Rights for Same-Sex Couples
the first to speak up. "I believe in my heart of hearts that what you're doing is the right and just thing," said Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill. "But I believe this is the wrong moment, that this is the wrong bill." Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Al Franken, 9:36 AM from Shakesville Read more »
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Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how’d you like the immigration bill?
less and less comprehensive by the hour. Democratic Senators, including Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Al Franken (D-MN), dutifully lined up and spoke out about how much they cared about gay rights, but they just had 5/21/13 from AMERICAblog Read more »
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Africa: USAID Releases Its First Water and Development Strategy
and poverty. It is smart, strategic and builds on our past successes using new breakthroughs in science and technology," Senator Durbin said. "It will save water and it will save lives. USAID's new plan will bring water and sanitation - the most basic of human 7:24 AM from AllAfrica.com Read more »
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FBI asked to track hate crimes against Sikhs
on earlier letters spearheaded by Democrat House member Joseph Crowley and Democrat senators Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin. About 140 members of the US Congress have so far endorsed the Sikh Coalition's request for the policy change that it says will translate 5:09 AM from Politics Balla Read more »
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Senate Panel Approves Immigration Bill
bill's demise. "I believe in my heart of hearts that what you're doing is the right and just thing," said one, Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill. "But I believe this is the wrong moment, that this is the wrong bill." Sen. Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat who 1:35 AM from NPR Read more »
