Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) said President Donald Trump will face legal challenges if he declares a national emergency and instructs the military build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Durbin said, “I can just tell you, I
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) stated Democrats will not “compromise on the basics.” He added that one of the basics is an offer of $1.3 billion in border security funding. Durbin said, “[W]e
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said he believed President Donald Trump was “compromisable” given his interactions with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Partial transcript as follows: DURBIN: Well, ultimately, we have
Sunday 0n ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said a federal judge in Texas ruling that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional was bad news for Republican lawmakers. Durbin said, “I think the judge, the Republican attorneys general who brought
Tuesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said if President Donald Trump were to pardon his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, it would be “an admission of guilt.” Durbin said, “I think there also is this looming concern
Wednesday on CNN’s “Newsroom,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) declared President Donald Trump impossible to bargain with on immigration. On comprising border wall funding in exchange for DACA legislation, Durbin said, “It’s a deal we offered and was rejected by the White House.
A group of Senate Democrats and a handful of establishment Senate Republicans are demanding President Trump import at least 80,000 foreign refugees every year.
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said President Donald Trump was the “only person on earth” who accepted Saudi Arabia’s story on the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Durbin said, “No. As a matter of fact, the
Friday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said President Donald Trump has no credibility in claiming Democrats create mobs when his supporters chant “lock her up.” Durbin said, “I listened to the president’s plea at these rallies, and rallies are
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) stated that investigating President Trump’s and Jared Kushner’s taxes wouldn’t be the top priority of a Democratic Congressional majority and “These political investigations that everybody fixes on,
Protesters in the Senate gallery Saturday repeatedly attempted to illegally interrupt proceedings as senators voted to make Brett Kavanaugh the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
The FBI’s seventh background investigation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh is reportedly slated to be released to senators’ eyes only on Thursday morning. On Wednesday, Republicans laid out a tightly choreographed process to keep it confidential.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said in a statement on Friday that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is complicit in the Senate Democrats’ “disgraceful treatment” of Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
Bill Clinton rape accuser Juanita Broaddrick pointed to the hypocrisy of Sens. Chuck Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, and Dick Durbin for refusing to even read her 1999 rape allegation against Bill Clinton.
Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats were smiling and laughing just moments before Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor alleging Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her over three decades again, was set to testify before the panel Thursday morning.
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) told viewers that Republican senators have assured their Democratic colleagues they will take into account the testimony of professor Christine Blasey Ford. Ford as accused Supreme Court associate justice nominee Judge Brett
During an appearance Monday on CNN’s “New Day,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) reacted to President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court associate justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s sexual assault allegations, saying this week would be “too fast” to hear from his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford. Durbin
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) claimed former President Barack Obama went eight years in office “without a major scandal.” Partial transcript as follows: TODD: What concerns you more, that there’s an unelected cabal or the reports
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), said there has been “consistent reporting,” about “unpredictable, unprepared, unstable behavior” by President Donald Trump. Durbin said, “There is a formal role. Congress under the Constitution has its own authority, but it
Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” host Nicolle Wallace questioned Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) on if he is obligated to act in light of the The New York Times anonymous op-ed written by a senior White House official claiming that cabinet officials
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) once again defended the protesters who have disrupted Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing at the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, calling them “one of the costs of democracy.”
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh defined several times his position on the precedent set by Roe v. Wade on abortion in Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) made a major admission during the effort he and fellow Democrats made to stop Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing Tuesday, noting that rather than Kavanaugh’s record, President Donald Trump is his main concern.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, that state’s GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, slammed incumbent Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Tuesday for not condemning a plot orchestrated by Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to derail the opening days of Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings.
Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s daughters were rushed out of his heated nomination hearing on Tuesday amid raucous Democrat-backed protests.
Abandoning decorum, Senate Democrats interrupted the proceedings 62 times, without waiting for proper recognition from the chair, and many of them spoke out of turn.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) defended the protests that interrupted the confirmation hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday as the “noise of democracy” — minutes after admitting that he and fellow Democrats had coordinated disruptions to the hearing.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) admitted Tuesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court that he and other Democrats participated in a conference call on how to disrupt the hearings.
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) if the Republican party is going to have a future they “better be attentive to the needs of immigration.” Durbin said, “John McCain used to say to me personally and
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) stated Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s consideration should be delayed until after Special Counsel Robert Mueller issues his report. Co-host Mika Brzezinski asked Durbin, “[Y]ou feel
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) stated President Trump is “dangerously close” to committing obstruction of justice when he “starts trying to influence” Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Durbin said when the president “starts
Tuesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration policy, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) called for Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to resign over the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which caused some migrant children to be separated from their
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said the Trump administration had trapped children in a “bureaucratic cave” with his zero-tolerance policy on immigration which caused some families to be separated after crossing the border illegally. Referencing the
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) stated that Senate Democrats “don’t have the power” to play “hardball” on the nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Co-host Mika Brzezinski asked, “[W]hat is the
A bipartisan group of Senators is slamming Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen for recently allowing U.S. businesses to import an additional 15,000 low-skilled foreign workers to the country.
A poll released by Morning Consult on Thursday shows embattled Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is the least popular Democrat in the U.S. Senate.
Sen. Dick Durbin has announced he is “heartbroken” after visiting the socialist state of Venezuela, which is currently embroiled in the worst political, economic, and humanitarian crisis in its history.
On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer John Dowd suggesting special counsel Robert Muller’s probe should end in light of the ouster of FBI Director Andrew McCabe was part of a
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says that a lack of amnesty for millions of illegal aliens is a “humanitarian crisis,” while black Americans continue to be overly unemployed in his home state of Illinois.
The immigration debate and the November election are not merely about a border wall or illegal immigrants, but are about whether the United States is and will remain a “Nation of Immigrants,” says Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin.