WASHINGTON, June 17 -- 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), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, joined U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and a bipartisan group of 14 colleagues in sending a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan urging EPA to raise Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) volumes for biomass-based diesel   more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: In March, Durbin led a letter to President Biden requesting this relief for undocumented immigrants--including allowing undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens to seek protection & streamlining the process for DACA holders to change their immigration status CHICAGO - U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today applauded President Joe Biden's an  more

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: In a letter to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Durbin writes: "Alphabet cannot simply place the onus on harmed individuals to police this material ... [it] must expand this work in de-platforming sites that host or promote nonconsensual sexually-explicit deepfakes, or apps that create this content" CHICAGO - U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today press  more

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) joined U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and a bipartisan group of 14 colleagues in sending a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan urging EPA to raise Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) volumes for biomass-based diese  more

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Today, President Biden signed the Missing Children's Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2023 into law, marking the second bill signed into law this Congress as part of the Senate Judiciary Committee's effort to protect children online Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee  more

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), a Chief Deputy Whip and Ranking Member of the Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, released the following statement after voting against final passage of H.R. 8070, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025: "I joined nearly all Democrats in voting against passage of the extremist right-wing Republ  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- 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, today applauded President Joe Biden's announcement to offer relief to hundreds of thousands of immigrants, including DACA holders and undocumented spouses and children of U.S. citizens. Today's announcement offers relief to certain undocumented spouses and children of U.S.  more