WASHINGTON, June 14 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Other priorities the Senator secured in Committee-passed NDAA will support a strong and ready Total Force, help restore American competitiveness, strengthen ties in Indo-Pacific and improve logistics to bolster readiness Combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), who served in the Reserve Forces for 23 years and is a member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), secured several  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) released the following statement in response to President Biden's nomination of Christy Goldsmith Romero to be Chair of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC): "I welcome today's announcement--Christy Goldsmith Romero has led an impressive, decades-long career as a financial regulator in the federal government and has twice been unanimou  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: After nearly every single Republican voted against her Right to IVF Act despite publicly claiming to support IVF, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) delivered impassioned remarks calling out Republicans' hypocrisy and cruelty as millions of Americans continue to be rightfully worried about accessing the IVF treatment and other assisted reproductive technology (ART) that they rely on to build their famil  more

WASHINGTON, June 14 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced that Illinois Head Start programs will receive $14,026,810 in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grant funding. The federal funding will support Head Start's mission to offer services for children under the age of five in receiving wrap-around support in early learning and development. "Head S  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)--the only women on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee--today introduced a resolution recognizing 30 years since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)--organized by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)--in Cairo, Egypt, and reaffirming the importance of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health car  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today participated in a Senate Appropriations Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) Subcommittee hearing on the Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) budget, where he questioned U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair Rostin Behnam ab  more

WASHINGTON, June 14 -- 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 in response to the Supreme Court's ruling today in Garland v. Cargill, which ruled a bump stock does not convert a rifle into a machine gun: "This ruling is deeply disappointing. Like Justice Sotomayor notes in her dissent: 'When I see a bird that walks like a duck, swims lik  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement on June 14, 2024: * * * U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court's ruling today in Garland v. Cargill, which ruled a bump stock does not convert a rifle into a machine gun: "This ruling is deeply disappointing. Like Justice Sotomayor notes in her dissen  more

WASHINGTON, June 14 -- Rep. Eric Sorensen, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: PEORIA, IL - Congressman Eric Sorensen (IL-17) released the below statement following the death of a young airline passenger after an emergency landing at General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport. "I am deeply saddened to hear about the 8-year-old girl who passed away after a plane had to make an emergency landing today at Peoria International Airport. As we work to learn more about this trag  more

WASHINGTON, June 14 -- Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Today, Congresswoman Robin Kelly (IL-02) condemned the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision to overturn the federal ban on bump stocks. "The Supreme Court's decision today is absurd. To allow bump stocks back onto the market will cause carnage on our streets," said Congresswoman Kelly. "We witnessed the devastating effects of bump stocks when a gunman fired upon crowds at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las  more