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Richard Joseph "Dick" Durbin (born November 21, 1944) is the senior United States Senator from Illinois, in office since 1997. He has been the Senate Minority Whip, the second highest position in the Democratic Party leadership in the Senate, since 2015.

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President Trumps recorded conversation with Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger is more than a pathetic, rambling, delusional rant, his disgraceful effort to intimidate an elected official into deliberately changing and misrepresenting the legally confirmed vote totals in his state strikes at the heart of our democracy and merits nothing less than a criminal investigation.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News 15 days ago Politics

Democratic Party's always hard, there are always going to be two or three people who say,' Woah, you're moving too fast. You're moving too far to the left. You're moving on issues that don't help me back home.'.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

She raised the issue. She was questioned by four different senators : two Democrats, Dick Durbin of Illinois included, and two Republicans. What did she mean by this ? Ordinarily, you would never raise the question of religion in a hearing.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

I've been around here a few years, you can slow things down, but you can't stop them. And there comes a point when we would use whatever tools we have available. But ultimately there will be a vote.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

Senate Democrats basically have kept options open, senate Democrats'd rather see this go through the regular process that Senator( Mitch McConnell) Mitch McConnell announced four years ago and that all of the Republicans stepped forward and said that Senate Democrats believe in this approach : Senate Democrats don't fill vacancies on Supreme Court in the last year of a president's term.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 4 months ago Top News

Senate Democrats'd rather see this go through the regular process that Senator( Mitch McConnell) Mitch McConnell announced four years ago and that all of the Republicans stepped forward and said that Senate Democrats believe in this approach : Senate Democrats don't fill vacancies on Supreme Court in the last year of a president's term.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 4 months ago Top News

We're hoping to work with the parliamentarian and officers of the Senate to come up with something that is bipartisan, makes sense, and protects the integrity of voting on the floor of the United States Senate.

– Dick Durbin

Found on Reuters 10 months ago Politics

If four Republican senators step up, it can make a big difference.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

He only moves if he's personally concerned about his own re-election or the election of his majority.

– Dick Durbin

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

Weve got to get beyond this impeachment is the answer to every problem, its become a knee-jerk reaction among many Democrats that if youre unhappy with President Trump or some of his appointments, impeachment is a recourse. ... If thats how we are identified ... we run the risk that people will feel were ignoring the issues that mean a lot to them as families.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Opinion

It is time to say no - just say no to pharma when it comes to production, let's be careful. HHS needs to be in this conversation.

– Dick Durbin

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Health News

Incoming Acting FDA Commissioner [ Dr. Ned ] Sharpless must, on day one, work to protect our nation's children from a lifetime of nicotine addiction by putting the full force of The FDA behind this effort, an epidemic must be dealt with immediately, not months or years from now.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 1 year ago Health News

What they said over again was technology, they don't rule out barriers, they don't rule out fences. But that isn't the first priority.

– Dick Durbin

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

Career professionals put technology as their highest priority. And let me add, in fairness to them, they don't rule out barriers. They don't rule out fences. But that isn't their first priority.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

The President may be disappointed if we don't give him everything he's asked for, but if this appropriations committee did that, it would be a first in history.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I don't want to guess what( Harris is) thinking but that is a massive part of the American economy. There is a system in place for funding it, it would take a mighty transition to move from where we are to that.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I am not going to do anything that I think is wrong, and I will not be bullied into doing anything, I think, is wrong by anybody, whether it be editorial boards or Congress or the president. Im going to do what I think is right.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Opinion

What Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi have both told the President is we are not going to build a wall, period, secondly, if you want to talk about border security, there are many things we can do.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

The administration position was defended by both of them in terms of what we had done naming 17 people who would suffer because we believed they were involved. But there was no satisfying answer about how it is possible that this could have occurred without the crown prince's knowledge or direction.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

The absence of Director Haspel was raised by Democrats and Republicans and we were told by those who were there, it was a decision by the White House Director Haspel not be present.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

No idea what they are going to find, i think the FBI is the appropriate agency and that's where it was referred.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

The government's conduct in the case had already forced her to delay her decision on an abortion by several weeks.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

This President, by This President tweets, has virtually no respect for the rule of law.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

You are the nominee of President Donald John Trump. This is a President who has shown us consistently that President Donald John Trump is contemptuous of the rule of law, it's that President who has decided Dick Durbin are his man.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

There are many options, many of us feel we need to go beyond a statement of the obvious -- that we stand behind the professionals at the Department of Justice and intelligence community and the Department of Defense. We think the Senate hast to act immediately to do something. At a minimum to have a public hearing to get to the bottom of what happened in Helsinki.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

We hope they will join us in a bipartisan effort, they did on the imposition of sanctions despite reluctance from the White House. So, there is some sentiment on the Senate Republican Senate side against Vladimir Putin and maybe we'll see it again.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

Fourteen years is, you know, violent felonies and treason.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin're asking me, and I'm saying to you I thought that was an excessive sentence.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I think this maybe is what this is all about.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

There are plenty who don’t like this.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

As of today, we don’t have a bill before us, we start anew.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

I don’t know the position of the president of the United States now, i couldn’t express it after the experience we had a couple of weeks ago. … He hasn’t issued anything by way of a suggested piece of legislation. We haven’t heard from him.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

Well here we are. We are just about at the fifth month in the sixth-month period that he gave us.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

It would be unrealistic to think we could address comprehensive reform in 14 days.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

He said these hate-filled things, and he said them repeatedly.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

There is never an excuse for this behavior—ever.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

In an interview with NBC News, President (Donald) Trump admitted to firing FBI Director James Comey because of his investigation of the Trump campaign's Russian connections, that is dangerously close to obstruction of justice. This morning, the President tweeted a thinly veiled threat to Mr. Comey, which could be construed as threatening a witness in this investigation, which is another violation of federal law.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

It's no coincidence that the Sessions memo was quietly signed on the same day the President was making major headlines for firing FBI Director Comey because of his investigation of Trump — this policy is unjust and unwise and can't withstand even minimal public scrutiny.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

I've contacted DHS to demand an explanation. Just last month Secretary Kelly promised me that no one with DACA would lose this protection unless they violated the terms of DACA. I intend to hold him to this commitment.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 3 years ago World

Merrick Garland -- the only presidential nomination to the Supreme Court, in the history of the United States Senate, to be denied a hearing and a vote.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

In case after case, he favored corporations, lawyers and the special interest elite … over workers, consumers, people of disability and victims of discrimination.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

At this point, I don't believe there are eight Democrats supporting Judge Gorsuch, but Chuck Schumer told us all, 'Wait until the hearings are over, let's do this professionally, let's do it responsibly,' i think that's the right approach.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

We have the power to act, and we must, the bottom line is that we allow dangerous people to buy guns in America and that has got to change. In the coming days, Congress must take a stand against hate, terrorism, and this horrific gun violence.

– Dick Durbin

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

There is nothing to concede, secretary Clinton will not have the requisite number of pledged delegates to win the Democratic nomination. She will be dependent on superdelegates.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I hate to think that this process in the Senate Judiciary Committee is being likened to a piñata contest where we are blindly going to swing at whoever that nominee or piñata is going to be, we have a responsibility to be fair.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I respected his knowledge of the subject, but I was also always struggling with his private life and his new public role in the negotiations.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

There are things that the oil industry... should be willing to help us pay for in this country.

– Dick Durbin

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Politics

In the ongoing nationwide debate about the rising cost of college, one of the most basic and direct costs to students is often overlooked: textbooks.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

The United States incarcerates more of its citizens than any other country on earth.

– Dick Durbin

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Politics

I can tell you that I know Chuck pretty well. I have listened to him carefully and heard his comments about the negotiations carefully, i always expected him to be against the agreement. This didn't come as a major shock or surprise.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I can tell you this: I have great respect for Joe Biden -- a former colleague in the Senate (who) served us a vice president. He's an extraordinary person and I count him as a dear friend, he owes it to himself and his family to take a hard look at this.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

He owes it to himself and his family to take a hard look at this.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

On the Record with Greta Van Susteren. we offered the prime minister an opportunity to balance the politically divisive invitation from Speaker Boehner.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

We offered the prime minister an opportunity to balance the politically divisive invitation from Speaker Boehner.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

We offered the Prime Minister an opportunity to balance the politically divisive invitation from Speaker Boehner with a private meeting with Democrats who are committed to keeping the bipartisan support of Israel strong.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I think now's the time to do it, but we ought to do it in a thoughtful way.

– Dick Durbin

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Energy

I think now's the time to do it, but we ought to do it in a thoughtful way, we've got to find some tax relief for them (lower- and middle-income Americans) if we increase that gas tax.

– Dick Durbin

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Energy

I think now’s the time to do it, but we ought to do it in a thoughtful way, we've got to find some tax relief for them (lower- and middle-income Americans) if we increase that gas tax.

– Dick Durbin

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Politics

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