New federal prosecutor nominated for Chicago

WASHINGTON -- Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) had to make what the New York senator called an "excruciating" decision on Tuesday to come out against including LGBT couple provisions in their immigration reform bill, citing the ...

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said next week he would grill Army officials testifying before his Appropriation subcommittee, on the growing problem of military sexual assaults. Reports of widespread sexual assaults in the armed services show a ...

Illinois senator Dick Durbin on Sunday labeled efforts to determine whether the Obama administration engineered a cover-up of the terrorist attack in Benghazi a witch-hunt He cited e-mails provided by the Obama administration, which reporters have ...

8:43 AM Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., debate congressional oversight of the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. consulate in

Sen. Dick Durbin (D) Illinois said Sunday that a change in the political sentiment is needed to pass

When Sen. Dick Durbin took over the powerful defense subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee in late January, the Illinois Democrat knew that he had some work to do. Durbin, No. 2 in the Senate Democratic leadership and a 26-year member ...

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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Sunday that the comprehensive immigration bill he negotiated with a bipartisan group of seven other senators directly addresses some of the security flaws that may have been exploited by a foreign student accused of ...

Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin said on Sunday passing immigration reform will make the country safer by helping to bring the 11 million people living in the United States illegally out of the shadows and onto the government's radar. The Illinois ...