Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) has told the House Ethics Committee to preserve their report on Trump attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz.
The Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats have uncovered three new trips that Justice Clarence Thomas received from Harlan Crow that he never disclosed.
Senate Minority Mitch McConnell walked into a big Democratic trap when he claimed that lowering the cost of prescription drugs is socialism.
Sen. Ted Cruz tried to plant the seeds for a conspiracy theory involving the White House not giving Democrats and Republicans the same documents, but Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin shut him down.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) said that Sen. Josh Hawley’s attacks on Judge Jackson have no credibility because he was fist-bumping with 1/6 attackers.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) called Fox News’s Tucker Carlson an apologist for Putin while speaking on the Senate floor.
Democratic leaders in every state are focused on getting as many people vaccinated as possible. Unfortunately for them, the issue has been deeply politicized. Viewers of the Fox News network hear conflicting messages about the COVID vaccine on a nightly basis. Of course, they tell you that only Donald Trump should be given credit for the…
Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who serves as the Senate Judiciary Chairman, called the recent mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, “devastating,” noting that he “can’t keep up with” the sheer number of mass shootings that happen in the United States annually. “I can’t keep up with it,” he said during his opening statement at a committee…
In listening to workers and science, Biden is providing an example of how we properly value lives and protect and practice democracy.
Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) remarked in an interview with CNN that he had trouble understanding one of former President Donald Trump’s defense attorneys during the first day of Trump’s impeachment trial. The attorney, Bruce Castor, drew heavy criticism for a rambling performance that confused even Trump’s allies in the Senate. The New York Times reported that…
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has refused a call to hold a quick confirmation hearing for Merrick Garland, who President Joe Biden has nominated to serve as the nation’s attorney general. Garland’s hearing is scheduled for February 8. Graham says the hearing is designed to “score political points” ahead of the impeachment trial of former President…
Several key members of the U.S. Senate have said they want to revive controversial immigration negotiations as a way to end the partial government shutdown , which is now two weeks old. Congress has been trying — and failing — to rewrite the nation’s immigration laws for many years. Trying to achieve consensus on immigration…
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) had three words that shut down Trump’s projection that Democrats are an angry mob.
The number two Senate Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois, sent out a tweet yesterday that may have destroyed Brett Kavanaugh’s chances of being confirmed. In the tweet, Durbin accused Kavanaugh of lying under oath during a Senate hearing. He also attached a letter he had sent Kavanaugh in 2007 which contains proof that Kavanaugh had…
“If you don’t have a tough skin, this is not a good business to get into,” Durbin said. “I know what happened. I stand behind every word that I said in terms of that meeting.”
While hiding in his private club, Trump attacked Sen. Dick Durbin who he blamed for blowing up the DACA deal and tried to use the military as a shield to deflect his racism.
During a joint press conference, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made it clear that Trump’s plan to ransom the fate of Dreamers to get his border wall paid for was dead in the Senate.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said that Democrats are looking at ways to prevent the Senate from going into full August recess to prevent Trump from replacing Jeff Sessions and stopping the Russia investigation. Video: Durbin was asked by Melber how Democrats would stop the Senate from going into full recess. He answered, “We’re exploring the…
“At this point, I don’t believe there are eight Democrats supporting Judge Gorsuch,” said Dick Durbin
“What is the best way to decimate a community? Deny its people access to healthcare.” “What is the best way to decimate a community? Shut down its largest employer.” These questions were asked and answered by Tim Egan, CEO of Chicago’s Roseland Community Hospital, last Sunday, January 15, as he opened his comments at a…
Top Senate Democrats are calling on John Boehner to immediately stop wasting taxpayer money by disbanding his Select Committee investigating Benghazi.
Democratic Senators sent a letter to the Rules Committee requesting that contractors who do business with the Senate pay a living wage.
Nine hour voting lines in my hometown city of Chicago wasn’t the only unfortunate news coming out of the Land of Lincoln this morning. For the first time since 1998, with 99 percent of the state’s precincts reporting, Illinois has a Republican Governor.
Nugent said, “The gun debate is about good people having the individual right from God, guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, to stop evil people. If you find fault with that you’re on the side of the evil people — duh”
The House of Representatives will lose one if its truly great, progressive voices at the end of this year as Rep. George Miller (D-CA) announced on Monday that he will retire from Congress and not seek reelection.
Well, when looking at the most frequent guests on these shows in 2013, it is apparent that the opinions that were most valued by these shows were from older, white, male Republicans.
Fox News had a gotcha moment go wrong, when Sen. Dick Durbin explained why Karl Rove deserves to be investigated by the IRS.
Senate history may have been made today when GOP Sen Mitch McConnell attempted to filibuster his own bill on the debt ceiling. Reid called him out, ‘I guess we have a filibuster of his own bill.’