Thursday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings With Maria Bartiromo,” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said the Omnibus appropriations bill’s “secret behind closed doors” negotiation is one of the reasons Americans are fed up with Washington, D.C. McCain said he is opposing
In response to Donald Trump’s call for a temporary pause on Muslim migration, the Senate Judiciary Committee declared on Thursday that Muslim migrants living in foreign nations have a global right to immigrate to the United States.
Sen. Marco Rubio posed as a public champion for Americans during the secret 2013 talks over amnesty and cheap imported workers, but behind closed doors, he was was an ally and a patsy for Democratic leaders, according to a new article from the left-wing Mother Jones magazine.
Assistant Senate Minority Leader Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) argued that while he doesn’t “understand” the motive behind Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton having a private email server, he doesn’t believe she was “trying to conceal things”
One of the oddest spectacles of recent years has been the political class’s utter befuddlement as to the decline in crime over recent decades.
As record green card rates continue to transform the country, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) let slip in a recent interview that he is the one who personally recruited Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to join the Gang of Eight. The immigration plan proposed
On Tuesday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) delivered a strident speech on the Senate floor supporting the Iran nuclear deal. The speech is very important, for three reasons. First, Durbin is one of the Senate’s most powerful Democrats. Second, Durbin owes
According to Sens. Durbin and Sessions, the DOL has opened investigations into Infosys and Tata — two foreign companies that have brought guest workers on H-1B visas into the United States to replace American workers.
When Senate Republicans changed the name of the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights to the simpler Subcommittee on the Constitution this past January, Democrats pounced, claiming that the name change meant that Republicans did not care about civil rights or human rights. Wednesday, the Subcommittee, led by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), will hold its first official hearing on a human rights issue that should be supported by Democrats: the testing of the nationwide backlog of rape kits.
The Department of Homeland Security has declined to investigate Southern California Edison on allegations that it is replacing American employees with foreign workers on H-1B visas.
With the top dogs in his corner, Politico reports that Sen. Chuck Schumer is in position to replace departing Sen. Harry Reid as Democratic Senate leader.
The Obama administration, ever eager to inject race into a debate in order to call conservatives racists, is coyly denying charges that the GOP-controlled Senate is holding up Loretta Lynch’s nomination for the post of attorney general because she is black.
Sen. John McCain wants Sen. Dick Durbin to apologize for comments he made about the Loretta Lynch nomination.
Thursday on TV One’s “News One Now,” host Roland Martin said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) was “flat-out wrong” to suggest racism is behind Republicans stalling a confirmation vote on Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch, when he said the GOP is making
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) blasted Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) for saying Republicans were making Loretta Lynch “sit in the back of the bus” on the Senate floor on Thursday. McCain stated that the comments were “totally inappropriate to be made
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) shot back at Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) for saying that Republicans were making Loretta Lynch “sit in the back of the bus” on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. “These are the same Democrats that
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