WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- Rep. Nikki Budzinski, D-Illinois, issued the following news release on Sept. 12, 2023: Today, Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) announced that the Belleville Shoe Manufacturing Company has been awarded a $7,816,274 contract from the Defense Logistics Agency for temperate weather combat boots. The boots will be supplied to the U.S. Army for the next two years. "Since World War I, the Belleville Shoe Manufacturing Company has played a critical role in equipping the me  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Following the recent Wall Street Journal investigative report identifying more than 2000 lead-covered cables across the nation that may be contributing to dangerously-high levels of toxic lead exposure across the country, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08) along with U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth led 9 other Members of the Illinois Congressional delegati  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Today, Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez (IL-03), the Vice Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Committee, released the following statement: "Speaker McCarthy, once again, gambles with the lives and well-being of everyday Americans just to please the extreme MAGA Republicans and score some political points. As we get closer to our deadline before a Republican-forced shutdown, Republicans find themselves   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) joined U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) in introducing legislation to ban stock trading by members of Congress. The Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act would require all members of Congress, their spouses and dependent children to place their stocks into a blind trust or divest the holding--ensuring they cannot use inside information to influence   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) announced the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $456,170 to the Warehouse Workers' Justice Center through the American Rescue Plan's Enhanced Air Quality Monitoring Competitive Grant to conduct community-organized air quality testing in areas with high levels of air pollution in Will County, Illi  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) joined U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-09) and U.S. Representative Eric Sorensen (D-IL-17) in leading eight of their Illinois Congressional delegation colleagues in sending a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Danny Werfel in support of building a new Taxpayer Correspondence print and mail ma  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today announced that he is cosponsoring U.S. Senator John Fetterman's (D-PA) and U.S. Representative Lauren Underwood's (D-IL-14) Convenient Contraception Act, legislation that would improve access to contraceptive products, including over-the-counter birth control. The bill provides individuals covered by private   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), along with his colleagues U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), today sent a letter to the President of the University of Idaho (UI) urging the school to reconsider its decision to acquire the University of Phoenix (Phoenix), a nefarious for-profit college with a history of preying on veterans, low-income students, and studen  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Illinois, issued the following statement on Sept. 12, 2023: * * * Today, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the first Donald Trump impeachment panel, released a statement following Speaker Kevin McCarthy's announcement of his intention to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on allegations founded in conspiracy theories: "Today, Speaker McCarthy once again caved to the demands of his most extreme members. "The   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- Rep. Mary Miller, R-Illinois, issued the following statement on Sept. 12, 2023: * * * Today, House Republicans formally announced an impeachment inquiry into President Biden following the release of Biden family bank records exposing massive corruption and substantial foreign payments amounting to tens of millions of dollars in exchange for official government actions. Congresswoman Mary Miller (R-IL) released the following statement in support of the impeachment inquir  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), a Chief Deputy Whip and member of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, celebrated House passage of H.Res.492, her bipartisan resolution condemning Iran's government for persecuting the Iranian Baha'i community, the largest religious minority in Iran with a membership of more than 300,000 people. "Today, the United States House of Representatives came  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: 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 U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Jeffrey Cummings to serve as a District Court Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois: "We are pleased that the Senate has confirmed Judge Cummings to serve  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 12, 2023: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today delivered an opening statement during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled "Book Bans: How Censorship Limits Liberty and Literature." In 2022, activists submitted more than 1,000 requests to ban books at public schools and libraries--the h  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 12, 2023: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled "Book Bans: How Censorship Limits Liberty and Literature." Durbin first questioned Secretary Giannoulias about the rise of book bans nation  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) today sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Colette Peters regarding allegations of s  more