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Dems' kamikaze mission: Health care by New Year's

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:49:00 +0000

Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin recently was asked if a national health care bill would pass the Senate by the end of the year. "It must," Durbin responded. "We have to finish it." Many other top Democrats share Durbin's determination to meet this deadline. But it's almost certainly not going to ...

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Durbin walks back comments about Lincoln's vote

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:30:25 +0000

November 20, 2009 Durbin walks back comments about Lincoln's vote A few moments ago, Sen. Dick Durbin walked back a statement he made earlier today that Sen. Blanche Lincoln told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid how she is going to vote tomorrow. Lincoln and Sen. Mary Landrieu are the only two ...

Weekly Standard Blog found this 9 days ago on politico.com

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Dick Durbin: List Building off the Public Option for Fun and Profit!

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:39:27 +0000

(Right: AFSCME Pres. Jerry McEntee leads a cheer for Sen. Dick Durbin) Dick Durbin is telegraphing that Blanche Lincoln and Ben Nelson will be successful in holding the Senate hostage on behalf of Wellpoint: Of course there are differences of opinion on critical issues like public ...

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State Dinner: Boehner, Reid snub invite

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:54:02 +0000

Barack Obama has offered John Boehner the hottest ticket in town and he s turned it down. A spokesman for the House minority leader said that the White House has invited Boehner to attend next week s state dinner with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, but that Boehner has declined because ...

Think Progress found this 5 days ago on politico.com

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Durbin: We're Struggling To Round Up 60 Votes For A Public Option

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:08:37 +0000

The Senate's second highest-ranking Democrat said that he and the leadership are struggling to round up 60 votes for a health care bill that includes a public option.

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Durbin: Lincoln has told Reid

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:09:35 +0000

From NBC's Ken StricklandAt a news conference this morning, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) pre-emptively gave the his answer to the question everyone's been asking over the past few weeks: does Majority Leader Harry Reid have the 60 votes needed to bring the healthcare bill to the floor. "We're not ...

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Durbin on Moussaoui -- By: Andy McCarthy

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:46:53 +0000

AG Holder's testimony has resumed, and Sen. Durbin claims out that no one complained about the Moussaoui trial being in a civilian court. In fact many of us complained -- I pointed out several times that Moussaoui was the "poster child" for commissions. More importantly, though, Sen. Durbin ...

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Obama's "Gitmo North" Prison In Homestate Illinois. Will It Fly?

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:26:55 +0000

As the Obama administration struggles to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison, a proposal to house some of the detainees in a nearly vacant prison in Obama's home state of Illinois--promoted by Democrats Gov. Pat Quinn and Sen. Dick Durbin--met stiffening resistance on Monday from ...

Lynn Sweet found this 12 days ago on politicsdaily.com

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Senate ethics panel admonishes Burris, but no charges coming

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:59:00 +0000

WASHINGTON-- Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) was admonished today by the U.S. Senate ethics committee over his testimony in Springfield concerning how he got appointed to Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat. But his actions following his appointment by then Gov.-Rod Blagojevich did not rise to ...

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UPDATED Durbin: Reid knows how Lincoln will vote

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:30:25 +0000

At least one person knows how Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) will vote Saturday: Majority Leader Harry Reid. "She's told Sen. Reid," Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told reporters Friday. "You will have to ask Sen. Reid." Representatives for Reid and ...

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Durbin change tune on Sen. Lincoln

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:30:03 +0000

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is now saying that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) does not know whether centrist Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) will vote with her party on healthcare reform Saturday. Friday morning, Durbin told reporters the opposite . "She told ...

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U.S. prison officials to tour Thomson Monday

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:33:01 +0000

A delegation from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons is scheduled to tour and inspect the Thomson Correctional Center Monday as part of a White House proposal to buy the facility and use it to house some terror suspects now detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba , officials said Sunday morning. Speaking ...

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