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CHICAGO - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today released the following statement after the Senate Judiciary Committee announced dates for the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Brett Kavanaugh:  “This is unprecedented and unfair to the American people.  Senate Republicans want to wrap up Judge Kavanaugh’s hearing before the National Archives releases documents--which Republicans themselves requested--about the work Kavanaugh did in the White House.  These documents may bear directly on the credibility of Judge Kavanaugh’s sworn testimony, not to mention his legal views and temperament.  The American people deserve to know the true story of the man seeking a...

Sen. Durbin: U.S. Deserves Honest Leaders 50 minutes ago America deserves honest leadership in Washington to replace the current Republican-dominated government, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said Saturday in the Democrats' weekly radio address. The concentrated power of the current GOP-controlled Congress and executive branch has produced "a culture of corruption that is preventing government from dealing with the real needs of our nation," Durbin said. In his broadcast, Durbin made several references to civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., who was slain in 1968 and would have turned 77 on Sunday. Durbin said that in his last book,...

Durbin apologizes for his remarks last week. developing nothing follows. :)

Frist tells Durbin to apologize on Senate floor By James G. Lakelyand Stephen Dinan THE WASHINGTON TIMES June 21, 2005 Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist yesterday demanded that Sen. Richard J. Durbin make a "formal apology" on the floor of the Senate for comparing U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to Nazi and Soviet regimes and that he strike his remarks from the Congressional Record. In a letter to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Mr. Frist, Tennessee Republican, said previous bids by the Senate's No. 2 Democrat to clarify his remarks didn't go far enough. "Subsequent statements by Senator...

Durbin is terrorist's new best friend Posted: June 21, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com I can understand the Democrats' angst over enemy combatants being detained at Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo). Somewhere in the dark recesses of the Democrat mind, the thought no doubt exists that had they been free, there would have been more votes in their column. But what Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., purposefully miss in their prevarications is what these detainees are and why they are at Gitmo in the first place. The first detainees were al-Qaida and Taliban forces moved in January 2002...

Article Published: Saturday, June 18, 2005 - 12:00:00 AM PST Senator issues apology for U.S.-Nazi comparison By Rebecca Carroll, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Friday that he regretted any misunderstandings caused by his comments earlier this week comparing American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis. The White House, Senate Republicans and others had called for an apology after Durbin's comments Tuesday. Durbin made the comparison after reading an FBI agent's report describing detainees at the Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as being chained to the floor without food or water in extreme temperatures. "If I...

Friday, June 17 James Taranto and Mickey Kaus on Kudlow this afternoon discussing the meltdown of Dick Durbin My friend Larry Kudlow, on his CNBC show Kudlow & Company, held blogger court this afternoon with Mickey Kaus of Slate, and Wall Street/Opinion Journal's James Taranto. Here's the transcript from earlier this afternoon: LK: Welcome back, everyone. You know, we always say that what happens in Washington matters to business, and to Wall Street, but has the president dropped the ball on two issues, tax reform, and is Congress giving up on social security? Those are big for the stock market....

Buyer Demands Apology From Sen. Durbin An Indiana congressman is demanding an apology from a US senator. The issue is what the senate's number two Democrat said on the Senate floor this week about how prisoners are treated at Guantanamo Bay. The White House is angry and Indiana Congressman Steve Buyer is among several Republicans who are demanding an apology. Illinois senior Senator Richard Durbin quoted an FBI report on conditions at Guantanamo Bay. "On one occasion the air conditioning had been turned down so far the temperature in the room was so cold the barefooted detainee was shaking with...

Legion Chief Assails Sen. Durbin's Slander of Servicemembers Distribution Source : U.S. Newswire Date : Friday - June 17, 2005 To: National Desk, Military Reporter Contact: Ramona Joyce, 202-263-2982 or 202-445-1161 (cell) or Joe March, 317-630-1253 or 317-748-1926 (cell), both of the American Legion, Web: http://www.legion.org WASHINGTON, June 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The leader of the nation's largest veterans organization today called for a full apology from Sen. Richard Durbin for his outlandish remarks against U.S. military personnel. "There are lies and there are #### lies," American Legion National Commander Thomas P. Cadmus said. "Senator Durbin knows better and owes...