Senator Dick Durbin told the Senate Judiciary Committee today that a young girl who performed at the inaugural parade was gunned down in Chicago yesterday. He said that the reason for this is because there were too many guns in
Republicans Marco Rubio (FL) , John McCain (AZ) and Democrats Chuck Schumer (NY), Dick Durbin (IL) and Bob Menendez (NJ). held a news conference in the U.S. Capitol to release their blueprint for an immigration reform bill
I certainly did, although I see reactions from certain quarters of law enforcement are a bit more tepid. Everyone knows the bill is doomed at the hands of red-state Democrats, which is funny, because it seems like only yesterday that
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is testifying Wednesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Benghazi attack gets some interesting help from Senator Dick Durbin.
Sen. Dick Durbin won his first race for Congress by positioning himself as a strong supporter of Israel. In 1982, he took on long-term incumbent Republican Paul Findley and edged him by just over 1,000 votes, chiefly because he was
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 (UPI) —Congress is unlikely to vote before the current session ends in January on allowing states to tax goods sold online, an aide to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., says. Durbin said he will introduce the tax again
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), the second-ranking Democratic leader in the Senate, said President Barack Obama has taken raising the Medicare eligibility age “off the table” in the fiscal cliff negotiations. “I was told that it is not on the table
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) —A top House Republican insisted the Obama administration’s goal in the fiscal cliff talks was to get more money for spending rather than deficit reduction. Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., contended the White House’s insistence on
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is offering his heartfelt prediction that U.N. ambassador Susan Rice will be confirmed as the next Secretary of state. The Illinois senator is famous for comparing U.S. treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay to
KRUGMAN: That kills charitable deductions. It hits the middle class hard. If you do it — if you do it right — we’ve done this, right… MATALIN: Are you an economist or a polemicist? Just make up your mind. KRUGMAN:
Most parties to the “fiscal cliff” negotiations employ a rhetorical veneer about the importance of compromise on both sides. They riff off Obama’s “balanced approach” talking point and stress that “everything is on the table.” Of course, it isn’t really
America has a debt crisis. And Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) has a solution: a commission! The last fiscal commission President Obama tried was Simpson-Bowles, which called for serious entitlement reform and massive spending cuts. Obama rejected their recommendations.
Sen. Dick Durbin explains that the “right to free contraception” is more important than an employer’s right to practice their religion if it means not providing the contraception to female employees. The discussion came up in Breitbart News Network’s exclusive
Back in December 2010, two full years into Barack Obama’s presidency, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) remarked, “Our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny President Obama a second term.” He was speaking after
The Obama administration broke its own rules for how stimulus money could be spent. The General Services Administration bought Chinese-made solar panels and installed them on a three-story federal building that houses the local offices of Illinois Senator Dick Durbin
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) “Well, I can just basically tell you that if the narrative that is being presented on your station and through your channel and your network is that Democrats are Godless people, they ought to know better,”
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) continues the Obama Campaign’s call for Mitt Romney to release his tax returns. Meanwhile, in the rest of the country, more seniors worried about Medicare solvency after President Obama raided the fund to pay for ObamaCare.
CBS: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani questions Vice President Biden’s “mental capacity” and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., defends Biden.
Rep. Jesse Jackson’s office revealed on Wednesday night that the Illinois Democrat is being treated for a “mood disorder,” but the vagueness of this revelation is unlikely to bridge the division among Democrats about what the proper way for Jackson
Rep. Jesse Jackson (D-IL) has been missing in action from Congress due to a mysterious medical condition. His state’s senior senator, Dick Durbin (D-IL), said yesterday that Jackson needs to explain his medical situation to the state’s voters “soon,” according
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and former Gov. Haley Barbour, R-Miss., challenge each other on the president’s jobs record and Mitt Romney’s economic plans.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., criticizes Mitt Romney’s handling of his Massachusetts healthcare history and questions why the candidate has a Swiss bank account.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) clearly spelled out the basics of the Republican budget plan for fiscal responsibility while defending against attacks from Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) whose Senate leadership hasn’t even put forth a budget in over three years.
Sen. Dick Durbin is setting up a Judiciary Committee hearing about bounties in professional football and other major sports in the wake of news that New Orleans Saints players received extra cash for hits that hurt particular opponents.
