Tag: Dick Durbin

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016, to deliver over million petition signatures demanding that President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress "keep their hands off the American people's earned Medicare benefits." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Dems urge Trump to promise no Medicare, Medicaid cuts

Paige Winfield Cunningham · December 7, 2016 7:11 pm

"We're getting a disconnect here between a victory lap" Trump took recently after saving 1,000 Carrier jobs and a decision by House Republicans to jettison a "Buy America" provision from the water infrastructure bill originally expected to pass the House and Senate by the end of the week, said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke File)

Dems: GOP already undermining Trump’s ‘Buy America’ promise

Susan Crabtree · December 6, 2016 9:10 pm

Manchin Calls Democratic Plans to Stall Trump’s Nominees ‘Bull–‘

Chris Deaton · December 5, 2016 6:15 pm

One of the harshest critics of Sen. Jeff Sessions' nomination to become attorney general on civil rights grounds once heaped praise on him for his work to reduce prison sentences for crack-cocaine possession, a top priority for the black community and President Obama. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Five bills Sessions helped Dems pass into law

Susan Crabtree · December 4, 2016 5:01 am

"This bill is a pale imitation of the original bill. It overpromises and underdelivers," said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on the Senate floor Wednesday. (AP Photo)

Democrats pile on criticism of Cures bill

Robert King · November 30, 2016 6:09 pm

Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., knows how to adapt. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Beltway Confidential

New leader Schumer adapts as Democrats move leftward

W. James Antle III · November 16, 2016 8:17 pm

Washington Secrets

Michelle Obama recruited to run for Senate, Chicago mayor

Paul Bedard · October 18, 2016 3:25 pm

Lobbyists are gearing up to contest a provision in a House Financial Services Committee legislative package that would repeal a cap on debit transaction fees put in place by the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Measure added to bill repealing Dodd-Frank threatens replay of epic lobbying battle

Joseph Lawler · August 26, 2016 4:01 am

Democrats Skeptical About U.S.-Russia Cooperation in Syria After DNC Hack

Jenna Lifhits · July 27, 2016 10:50 pm

Washington Secrets

Hyped Ronan Farrow Today show ‘scoop’ slammed as ‘sanctimonious fraud’

Paul Bedard · July 27, 2016 8:14 pm

Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Democrats will not block the bill as they had threatened to do. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Senate Dems won’t block opioid bill

Susan Ferrechio · July 12, 2016 8:54 pm

Congressional leaders: Trans-Pacific trade deal dead for the year

Susan Ferrechio · July 12, 2016 7:31 pm