WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Rep. Sean Casten, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * U.S. Congressmen Sean Casten (IL-06) and Jamie Raskin (MD-08) led 28 colleagues in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas urging their respective agencies to fully and robustly implement President Biden's May 2022 Executive Order to combat white supremacy in federal policing. "The Department of Justice must a  more

WASHINGTON, March 19 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (D-IL-05), Eric Sorensen (D-IL-17), and Nikki Budzinski (D-IL-13) authored a letter to Postmaster General (PMG) Louis DeJoy urging him to reconsider his decision to eliminate mail processing at Processing and Distribution Centers (P&DCs) located in Champaign, Peoria, Milan, and Springf  more

WASHINGTON, March 19 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: CHICAGO - U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) urged the Council for Responsible Nutrition, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, the American Herbal Products Association, and the United Natural Products Alliance to act against the inclusion of dangerous or illegal ingredients in products marketed as dietary supplements in the United States, such as tianeptine. Tianeptine can be found   more

WASHINGTON, March 19 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today led U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (D-IL-05), Eric Sorensen (D-IL-17), and Nikki Budzinski (D-IL-13) in a letter to Postmaster General (PMG) Louis DeJoy urging him to reconsider his decision to eliminate mail processing at Processing and Distribution Centers (P&DCs) located in Champaign, Peoria, Milan, and S  more

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Rep. Darin LaHood, R-Illinois, issued the following news release on March 19, 2024: Yesterday, U.S. Reps. Darin LaHood (R-IL) and Randy Feenstra (R-IA) led two letters to the Biden Administration urging greater action in developing new markets for biofuels exports and calling on U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to continue working towards the full repeal of Brazil's 18% tariff on American ethanol. Both LaHood and Feen  more

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Rep. Nikki Budzinski, D-Illinois, issued the following news release on March 19, 2024: Today, Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13), Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth and Representatives Mike Quigley (IL-05) and Eric Sorensen (IL-17) sent a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy urging him to reconsider his decision to eliminate mail processing at Processing and Distribution Centers (P&DCs) located in Champaign, Springfield, Peoria, and Milan, Illinois. In their  more

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement on March 19, 2024: * * * Today, the U.S. Senate confirmed Nicole Berner to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement regarding Ms. Berner's confirmation: "Ms. Berner is a highly experienced litigator who will bring an underrepresented  more

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on March 19, 2024: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, spoke on the Senate floor highlighting his Dream Act, bipartisan legislation that would allow noncitizens without lawful status who were brought to the United States as children and meet certain education or work requirements to earn lawful permanent resi  more