WASHINGTON, May 28 -- Rep. Sean Casten, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Today, U.S. Congressman Sean Casten (IL06) and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI06) led nine colleagues in a letter urging Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator BrooksLaSure to implement quality standards of care and protections from abuse and neglect for older Americans and people with disabilities. "We recognize that CMS has taken significant steps toward protecting the care   more

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Bicameral resolution designates "Disability Reproductive Health Equity Day" in May Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-07), in partnership with disability justice and reproductive justice advocates, announced a bicameral resolution calling for equitable access to reproductive and sexual health care for people with disabilities, an  more

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: A special pay rate for critical staff would help remedy issues exacerbated by understaffing, including otherwise preventable deaths in custody CHICAGO - Led by U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a group of Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats today pressed the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to request a special pay rate for critical BOP staff, as wel  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on May 28, 2024: Led by U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a group of Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats today pressed the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to request a special pay rate for critical BOP staff, as well as share results of a study on staffing guidelines. A special pay rate would make salaries m  more