Tag: Dick Durbin

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined from left by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Majority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, tells reporters he has secured enough Republican votes to start President Donald Trumpâs impeachment trial and postpone a decision on witnesses and documents Democrats want, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday Jan. 7, 2020.

McConnell warns Democrats he’ll block rushed infrastructure package

Susan Ferrechio · August 3, 2021 7:55 pm

Washington Secrets

Durbin won’t hear racism charges against ATF nominee

Paul Bedard · August 3, 2021 6:09 pm

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. speaks as President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in D.C.

Beltway Confidential

Dick Durbin is wrong about demographics and the GOP

Zachary Faria · July 20, 2021 9:52 pm

Senate Judiciary Committee members Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, left, and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., confer during a hearing on 'Oversight of U.S. Customs and Border Protection' on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

John Cornyn calls Dick Durbin’s DACA bluff

Conn Carroll · July 13, 2021 3:47 pm

Senate Democrats confirm first Muslim American federal judge

Nicholas Rowan · June 10, 2021 6:41 pm

Brett Kavanaugh and Dick Durbin.

Parties battle over ‘Jim Crow’ label ahead of Senate hearing on new Georgia voting law

Susan Ferrechio · April 19, 2021 7:27 pm

For Senate Democrats, passing gun control might be impossible, even without the filibuster

Susan Ferrechio · March 30, 2021 12:00 am

Senate Democrats dodge Biden gun ban appeal

Susan Ferrechio · March 23, 2021 7:44 pm

Democrats’ House immigration bills will hit snag in the Senate

Susan Ferrechio · March 21, 2021 10:00 am

The Supreme Court is shown, Monday, April 6, 2020 in Washington. The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from the Catholic church in Washington, DC, that sought to place religious-themed ads on public buses.

Citing pandemic, senators push for cameras during Supreme Court arguments

Nicholas Rowan · March 18, 2021 9:12 pm

People with the Human Rights Campaign hold up "equality flags" during an event on Capitol Hill.

Democrats exclude mother of female athletes from testifying against Equality Act

Nicholas Rowan · March 17, 2021 7:07 pm

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019.

Energy and Environment

Top Senate Democrat sticks with carbon pricing as party moves on

Abby Smith · March 15, 2021 11:00 am