Wednesday on the Senate floor, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) likened Senate Republicans’ confirmation vote delay on attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch to racist Jim Crow laws that forced African-Americans like Rosa Parks to sit on the back of the bus.
Sen. Dick Durbin, Democrat from Illinois, reaches for Civil Rights-era language to attack Republicans. The Senate won’t vote on Loretta Lynch’s nomination to be attorney general until after it passes a human trafficking bill that Democrats are filibustering.
On Tuesday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) offered his thoughts on the controversy swirling around former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and allegations she conducted office government business on a private email server, which may have been
Democrats are a minority in both Houses of Congress, but you wouldn’t know it. They’re crowing about forcing the House to accept a Senate-passed DHS spending bill that contains funding for President Obama’s executive amnesty.
Sen. Durbin thanks Sen. McConnell for returning the Senate to a more normal way of operating.
Monday, demonstrators stopped Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) in the middle of a speech on the Senate floor by screaming “U.S. torture, it’s official, prosecute now!” The Capitol Police arrested 11 and restored order saying, ”One more outburst and you will
A progressive group founded by Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig is calling on Democrats to “stand with Warren against Obama” in opposing Obama’s nomination of Wall Street executive Antonio Weiss — a man who helped raise big bucks for Obama’s political campaigns.
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” the number-two Democrat in Senate leadership, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said President Barack Obama “had no choice,” but to grant amnesty to upwards of 5 million illegal immigrants already living in the Untied States.
On Tuesday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said that a comprehensive amnesty bill would have helped America contain the Ebola epidemic in Africa. Durbin, a member of the Senate’s Gang of Eight that wrote the immigration reform bill, said during a
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) cut off an interview with Springfield, IL ABC affiliate WICS anchor Vince Dementri after a line of questioning on the rise of ISIS. WICS said Durbin wanted “to talk about a bill he introduced that would
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) alluded to Glenn Beck’s flamboyant campaign to bring soccer balls and teddy bears to tens of thousands of illegal alien children streaming across the U.S. border while urging Republicans to stow their objections to
There’s an old axiom that one should write about what one knows. By that logic, Alpha House, the Amazon Studios production that premiered late last year and returns for a second season in late October, should be about four Democrats
On Thursday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said President Barack Obama’s temporary amnesty program for some illegal immigrant children has nothing to do with the increase in the number of illegal immigrant kids flooding across the border. “I authored the DREAM
A day before the one-year anniversary of the passage of the Senate immigration bill, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions argued Thursday that Senate Democrats are unserious about real immigration reform. “How can any of us relax at an Independence Day barbecue
Thursday during a press conference on immigration reform, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) likened the Speaker of the House John Boehner’s lawsuit against President Barack Obama for excessive use of executive action to former President Abraham Lincoln’s difficult relationship with General
When Barbra Streisand talks in public, it usually means she’s pushing a pet liberal cause or new project. This week, the famed Funny Girl is in Washington, D.C. to promote a cause with the potential for bipartisan support. The singer
At a fundraiser held in Chicago for Illinois Democrat Senator Dick Durbin and other Democrat Senators, President Obama said that he faced a Republican Party that was anti-science, opposed women receiving equal pay for equal work, and wanted to stop
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), a Senate Gang of Eight member who co-wrote the chamber’s amnesty bill last year, will hold a hearing next Monday to pressure lawmakers to include a provision to give illegal immigrant DREAMers amnesty if they enroll
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Senator Dick Durbin, (D-IL) have published the data from a congressional staff investigation so the lawmakers can attack e-cigarettes. There are calls from California lawmakers for the Food and Drug Administration to start getting involved in
Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, has expressed support of a priest who refused Holy Communion to Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), who supports abortion. Following the priest’s withholding of the sacrament, Paprocki replied to a pro-life activist’s email about the
President Obama seized on the veneer of good news about Obamacare to tear into his critics, issuing one of the most partisan speeches of his presidency and accusing opponents of lying about the law to scare the public because they’re
A long-shot challenger in the Illinois GOP senate primary has based his candidacy against a moderate Republican almost entirely on Obamacare repeal, and the results in Tuesday’s election could speak to voter intensity on the subject. Political newcomer Doug Truax
During Sunday’s Face the Nation, Illinois Democrat Senator Dick Durbin made the wild claim that ten million new Americans have found insurance coverage thanks to Obamacare. He also claimed that Obamacare would lower the deficit. But even The Washington Post
The White House pulled out all the stops last week to insure reporting on CBO estimates of how Obamacare would create a disincentive to work were strictly accurate. They seem to have another standard entirely when it comes to putting
(AP) Senate’s leader Reid in hospital for observationBy LAURIE KELLMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid was hospitalized early Friday after feeling unwell and undergoing tests that revealed nothing wrong, his spokesman said. In Reid’s absence, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., opened
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) on CBS’s “Face the Nation”:
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), the second-highest ranking member of the Democrat-controlled Senate, has admitted that he lied about the House Republican leadership when he claimed that one of them had said they “cannot even stand to look at”
A couple weeks ago, Dem Majority Whip Sen. Dick Durbin posted an outrageous claim on Facebook that a House GOP leader had told President Obama that he “cannot stand to look at” him during talks on resolving a government shutdown.
Over the weekend, IL Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin took to Facebook to make the outrageous claim that a House GOP Leader told President Obama, “I cannot stand to look at you” during negotiations on the budget shutdown. Aides to House
After the number-two Senate Democrat, Sen. Dick Durbin posted on his Facebook page Wednesday morning that supposedly a House GOP leader told Obama he “cannot even stand to look at” him during the negotiation to end the government shutdown, Press
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, the number 2 Democrat in the Senate, made an outrageous claim on his Facebook page this weekend. The Illinois Democrat claimed that during a recent negotiation over the government shutdown, a House GOP leader told
In response to 5 Predictions for Obama’s Obamacare ‘Glitch’ Speech: He won’t admit to the nation that he was profoundly wrong on October 1, when he suggested the problems with the website were minor and due to the popularity of
Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace took Senator Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) to task on the Obamacare failures
On Oct. 12, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) took to the floor of the Senate to offer one of his typical, hyper-partisan harangues, blaming Republicans for the ill effects of the government shutdown (including the suspension of programs that the House
Debate over the government shutdown and Obamcare became testy on Friday afternoon between Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Ted Cruz (R-TX). Durbin accused Cruz of causing “damage” with the government shutdown, which Durbin said Cruz “inspired’ by his 21-hour speech
On CBS “Face The Nation” Senate assistant leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)
Senator Dick Durbin seemed to question Senator Ted Cruz’s ability to count to 60 during a question and answer exchange on the Senate floor Tuesday.
Alaa Mukahhal, the “Dreamer” who has been praised on the floor of the Senate by Dick Durbin (D-IL) as an activist “in the finest American tradition,” wrote a short and obscene assessment of Israel and its supporters on her Facebook page
Illinois is one of the most and-gun states in America. The voters typically elect inveterate foes of the Second Amendment such Senator Dick Durbin and President Barack Obama. Yet the Supreme Court elected by those same voters just struck down
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), the chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, announced on Thursday that a central witness in the September 17 Senate hearing targeting “Stand Your Ground” laws will be Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon
