EAST ST. LOUIS, Illinois, Sept. 8 -- Rep. Nikki Budzinski, D-Illinois, issued the following news release on Sept. 7, 2023: Today, Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) held a roundtable with women veterans in East St. Louis to discuss a wide range of issues from access to health care and mental health care to challenges with Military Sexual Trauma (MST) and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). "As the grandchild of two World War II veterans, I grew up understanding the deep debt of gratitude  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 -- Rep. Sean Casten, D-Illinois, issued the following news release on Sept. 8, 2023: Today, Representatives Sean Casten (D-IL-06) and Tim Burchett (R-TN-02) introduced the bipartisan Educators Expense Deduction Modernization Act of 2023. This bill would increase the amount educators are able to deduct on qualified out-of-pocket classroom expenses on their annual tax return from $250 to $1,000 and keep it indexed to inflation to ensure the deduction keeps pace with rising cos  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: CHICAGO - U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement after Justice Samuel Alito refused to recuse himself in Moore v. United States: "Justice Alito, of the originalist school of thinking that empty seats on an airplane don't count as gifts, surprises no one by sitting on a case involving a lawyer who honored him with a puff pie  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: CHICAGO - U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (D-IL-05) and Robin Kelly (D-IL-02) joined Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Administrator Nuria Fernandez today to announce that the Red Line Extension (RLE) project has entered the engineering phase of FTA's Capital Investment Grants program, with a $1.947 billion federal funding commitment from the FTA, w  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 -- Rep. Bradley Schneider, D-Illinois, issued the following news release on Sept. 8, 2023: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA), along with U.S. Representative Brad Schneider (D-IL-10), today introduced bicameral legislation that increases federal investments in worker training and helps prepare workers for the jobs of the future. The Investing in Tomorrow's Workforce Act would ensure that American workers have the ski  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 -- Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Illinois, issued the following news release on Sept. 8, 2023: Today, U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (D-IL-05), Robin Kelly (D-IL-02), and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) joined Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Administrator Nuria Fernandez today to announce that the Red Line Extension (RLE) project has entered the engineering phase of FTA's Capital Investment Grants program, with a $1.947 billion federal funding commitment from the  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Washington, D.C. - This week, Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez(IL-03), the Vice Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, joined the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chair Nanette Barragan (CA-44), Vice Chair Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), Rep. Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Rep. Chuy Garcia (IL-04), and her CHC colleagues to send a letter to the Biden Administration urging the redesignation o  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Sept. 9 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement on Sept. 8, 2023: * * * U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement after Justice Samuel Alito refused to recuse himself in Moore v. United States: "Justice Alito, of the originalist school of thinking that empty seats on an airplane don't count as gifts, surprises no one by sittin  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 7, 2023: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), former Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today introduced a Senate resolution designating 2024 as the Year of Democracy. The resolution asks Americans to reflect on the contributions of the system of g  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- The Senate Judiciary Committee issued the following information for a hearing entitled "Book Bans: Examining How Censorship Limits Liberty and Literature" at 10 a.m. on Sept. 12, 2023, at 216 Hart Senate Office Building: Witnesses * Max Eden, Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Arlington, VA * Nicole Neily, President, Parents Defending Education, Arlington, VA * Cameron Samuels, Student, Brandeis University, Co-Founder, Students Engaged in Advancing Texas,   more