U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA), Chair of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety, sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra requesting information related to reports that HHS received warnings that unaccompanied children were being released from HHS custody into situations that presented a risk of labor exploitation and trafficking.
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Co-Chair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus, today discussed Ukraine’s future in the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) with Chair of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Ruslan Stefanchuk, ahead of the NATO Summit. Durbin will travel to Vilnius, Lithuania next week for the NATO Summit with Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Thom Tillis (R-NC), where he will express his support for Ukraine’s future in the EU and NATO.
Combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth—member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and who served in the Reserve Forces for 23 years—condemned Republican efforts to overturn an existing Department of Defense policy that allows servicemembers to seek the care they need and protects their reproductive rights.
Throughout its 234-year legacy, the court has repeatedly had the opportunity to lead on the right side of history. Sometimes it has embraced that mantle of courage; but in its darkest hours, it has pushed civil rights to the wayside in the name of a retrograde agenda. Not yet ten years out from Obergefell, this court has turned its back on its mandate to protect the civil rights of all Americans.
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, met with members of March Fourth, a gun violence prevention organization that was founded in the aftermath of the Highland Park shooting on July 4, 2022.
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina:
U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) today joined Amtrak and local leaders to break ground on the Southern Illinois Multimodal Station (SIMMS). Duckworth and Durbin helped secure a total of $18.3 million in federal funding for this project and have been long-time champions of the project.
U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) joined U.S. Senators Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) in re-introducing the Right to Contraception Act, legislation that would codify and strengthen the right to contraception—which the Supreme Court first recognized more than half a century ago in its Griswold v. Connecticut decision.
Following severe storms in Illinois on Thursday, Attorney General Kwame Raoul today warned Illinois residents to be on alert for scammers looking to exploit homeowners and business owners who may need repairs from storm-related damage.
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today released the following statement after the White House announced its intent to nominate April Perry to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
Nearly one year after the disastrous Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) visited Southern Illinois’s CHOICES Center for Reproductive Health to learn more about the clinic’s work.
U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) visited Sesser to meet with the city’s leadership and discuss the $750,000 she secured through a Fiscal Year 2022 Congressionally Directed Spending Request for City of Sesser for the rehabilitation of its sanitary sewer collection system.
Combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)—member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and who served in the Reserve Forces for 23 years—and U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) introduced new bipartisan legislation to help improve maternal care at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
U.S. Senator and pilot Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)—member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (CST) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Safety, Operations and Innovation—delivered an impassioned speech on the Senate floor on the importance of upholding the strong pilot certification standards, such as the 1,500-hour rule, in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act of 2023 and warned her Senate colleagues of the deadly consequences of complacency in aviation.
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today held a news conference with Illinois health care leaders to highlight his “Roadmap to Grow Illinois’ Rural Health Workforce.”