Topic: Dick Durbin
The San Francisco Chronicle reports Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on Monday lauded these soon-to-be released guidelines.. As you may recall, Yahoo landed in court after cooperating with the Chinese government, and Microsoft, Cisco and Google also came under fire for doing so ...
U.S. Senate Democrats dropped an attempt to let bankruptcy judges alter the terms of mortgages Thursday, though that did little to strengthen the tenuous bipartisan support for the Senate's first significant attempt to address the housing crisis. Durbin, however, took the unusual ...
At a press conference on Capitol Hill Thursday, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told reporters that domestic stimulus spending should equal or exceed the monthly cost of the war in Iraq. "We should have a stimulus package in America at least ...
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) called on presidential rival Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-New York) during the Democratic presidential debate Tuesday in Philadelphia to release her White House papers to the public. Most of the former first lady's documents are stored at the Clinton ...
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected a bill that would have established a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who were brought into the United States as children and who make an effort to contribute to society.. The DREAM Act, sponsored by ...
Senate Appropriations Panel Refuses to Fund $4.8M in Cheney's Budget RequestSenate Democrats moved Tuesday to cut off funding for Vice President Dick Cheney's office in a continuing battle over whether he must comply with national security disclosure rules.A Senate appropriations panel chaired ...
Bush Hopes to Revive Immigration Bill by Emphasizing Border Security, Say OfficialsPresident Bush is not giving up on his plan to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants and will seek to convince skeptical GOP senators that it secures the nation's borders, administration officials ...
Tucked inside the current funding bill for the Department of Health and Human Services is a little-noticed provision that regulates how the department handles science and scientific advice. The provision, inserted by Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois, represents a tiny victory for ...