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Richard Joseph "Dick" Durbin (born November 21, 1944) is the senior United States Senator from the U.S. state of Illinois and Democratic Party Whip, the second highest position in...
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- News Source: Chicago Tribune | about 6 hours agoAfter a long briefing Wednesday by officials from the Pentagon and federal Bureau of Prisons, members of Congress from Illinois remained divided on a bid to transfer between 50 and 100 detainees held at Guantanamo Bay to a mostly unused state prison
- News Source: National Public Radio | about 12 hours agoDurbin said Wednesday he didn't want to assume Thomson Correctional Center will be chosen, but the level of interest by the administration is very encouraging. The prison is about 150 miles west of Chicago, near the Illinois-Iowa border. The comments
- News Source: Reuters | about 12 hours agoCongress included $34 billion for state-led transportation projects in its $787 billion stimulus bill passed in February. Those projects have created 340,000 jobs in construction and related industries, Oberstar said, but most will have run their
- News Source: Inter Press Service | about 12 hours agoCommittee Chair John Kerry, a Democrat, who praised Obama for "defin[ing] a narrower mission tonight, not an open-ended nation-building exercise". However, Kerry warned that his support for deploying additional troops is based on a "strict
- News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal | about 14 hours agoHouse and Senate leaders plan to craft major jobs packages by year's end, as they respond to intensifying pressure to show they are doing more to ease unemployment. House leaders aim to pass at least part of a package this month, giving members
- News Source: The Frontier Post | about 14 hours agoPresident Obama announced Tuesday night that he will send 30,000 additional US troops to Afghanistan by next summer and begin withdrawing forces in July 2011, making his case to the nation that Islamist extremism in the region remains an enduring
- News Source: Truthout | about 18 hours agoThe US Senate began voting Tuesday on amendments and counter-amendments to the healthcare reform bill, as senators battle to shape the final product. Tuesday was a big day on Capitol Hill, with the full US Senate set to start voting on historic
- News Source: Chicago-Sun Times | 1 day agoPresident Obama's decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan by adding 30,000 U.S. troops -- at the same time announcing an exit strategy to start in July 2011 with no firm end date -- was clearly difficult for many of his most ardent supporters.
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