Higher education institutions help make our country a better place.
Today, I met with Jay Gatrell, President of EIU, to discuss critical funding needed for programs that teach their students and support the community.
Congress Member Profile|U.S. Senator|Democrat|Illinois
Richard J. Durbin
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Voting Record — 851
Yes35%
No62%
Present0%
Not Voting3%
Party align93%
Cross-party6%
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Richard J. Durbin
U.S. SenatorDemocratIllinois
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Instead of helping high school counselors, Pres. Trump signed an Executive Order to demolish the Department of Education.
Shameful.
Our students need this support.
Borrower Defense rescues students defrauded by for-profit colleges.
Education Sec. McMahon is gutting the office that enforces it.
Defrauded students need support, not budget cuts.
President Trump and his allies are openly intimidating judges—and Republican Senators are enabling it.
They’d rather defend a bully than defend judges, the law, and democracy.
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Sen. DURBIN: It’s difficult to imagine President Bush, Obama, or Biden using such unhinged, bombastic, and childish language or calling for the impeachment of a judge simply because that judge ruled against his administration. They never did anything like this.
Donald Trump and his extreme allies keep using unhinged language to threaten judges… even calling for impeachment.
Just imagine if President Obama had done that.
Republicans would’ve thrown a fit.
One in five Americans say they've lost a loved one to gun violence.
This is simply unacceptable.
We must act to protect our communities.
Today should’ve been Hadiya Pendleton’s 28th birthday.
In her memory, I’ve introduced the bicameral “Wear Orange” Resolution to designate June 6, 2025, as National Gun Violence Awareness Day and June as National Gun Violence Awareness Month.
We must put an end to this public health crisis.
I’m praying for the victims and their loved ones after the horrifying attack in Boulder, Colorado.
Antisemitic violence has no place in our country.
All forms of hate-fueled violence must be strongly condemned, and Congress must work on a bipartisan basis to combat hate.
Donald Trump and Pam Bondi just overturned the precedent set by Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, H.W. Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump 1.0, and Biden.
The American Bar Association has been conducting independent peer evaluations of judicial nominees—with DOJ’s cooperation—since the Eisenhower Administration.
That’s how out of line this is.
or don’t have the requisite experience to be confirmed to lifetime appointments as federal court judges, negatively impacting generations of Americans.
This decision will ultimately ease the confirmation process for Trump nominees who have demonstrated bias against protected classes... don’t have the judicial temperament to rule fairly from the bench...
This decision overturns a practice that has been in place for nearly 70 years under Republican and Democratic Administrations alike in order to provide cover for unqualified and extreme nominees who would crumble under a nonpartisan review by their peers.
This is a seismic change in the judicial nominations process—an unjustified and blatantly political move by the Trump Administration.
The Trump-Bondi Justice Department just overturned decades of bipartisan precedent. They’re refusing to cooperate with the American Bar Association to vet and rate judicial nominees.
It’s a huge red flag.
Donald Trump and failed U.S. Attorney nominee Ed Martin are turning the pardon process into a disaster.
Ethically. Legally. Morally.
Donald Trump is selling off the government piece-by-piece to the highest bidder.
He let his co-commander Elon Musk dismantle vital agencies.
And he’s letting his Justice Department enablers sell off pardons to anyone who supports him.
He’s for himself—not YOU.
The Trump Tariff Tax caused chaos, uncertainty, and real damage. This is welcomed news from the Court, but the President has created a global mess at the expense of American families and businesses.
Political violence has no place in America—regardless of your ideology.
The spike in threats against sitting judges under the Trump Administration is abhorrent.
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851 total votes
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| Date | Bill | Question | Position | Party Maj | Align? | Result |
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| 2025-01-09 | S. 5 (119th) | End filibuster to begin debate | YES | YES | ✓ | Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Agreed to (84-9, 3/5 majority required) |
Alignment stats consider only votes where a clear yes/no majority existed for the legislator's party. Cross-party marks divergence where the vote matched the opposite party majority. ↔ indicates cross-party divergence.
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