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1:45 PM, Dec 13, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERPresident Barack Obama won't touch the eligibility age for Medicare, Senator Dick Durbin told reporters. The AP reports:
One of President Barack Obama's top Senate allies says he's been assured by the White House that the president won't yield to GOP demands to increase the eligibility age for Medicare.
Fellow Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin made the revelation to reporters after a Capitol Hill news conference.
Increasing the eligibility age is a key demand by Republicans seeking cost curbs in popular benefit programs in exchange for higher tax revenues.
Durbin said he's been told that increasing the eligibility age from 65 is "no longer one of the items being considered by the White House."
3:30 PM, Oct 21, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENSenators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Dick Durbin of Illinois debated foreign policy on Fox News Sunday. Graham, a Republican, argued that the terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was a "national security breakdown."
"I am totally convinced this is going to go down in history as one of the most major breakdowns of national security in a very long time," Grahama said. "It's Exhibit A of a failed national security strategy." Watch the video below:
Read more... 9:04 AM, Sep 10, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPEROn MSNBC's Morning Joe, Illinois senator Dick Durbin called Mitt Romney the "the baby daddy of Obamacare." He made the remarks in reference to Romney saying over the weekend that he'd repeal and replace Obamacare, maintaining some similar features of the president's signature legislation.
Read more... Blunt-Nelson bill would restore conscience protections that existed before Obamacare.11:05 AM, Feb 15, 2012 • By JOHN MCCORMACKYesterday, I asked Senator Dick Durbin if he thinks Obamacare's contraception/abortifacient mandate still violates the religious liberty of Catholic churches, like the Archdiocese of Washington. Durbin, the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, said he didn't know.
Read more... 12:33 PM, Mar 29, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARRENIllinois senator Dick Durbin opened his Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing this morning on civil rights for Muslims by quoting George Washington. "In this land of equal liberty, it is our boast that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the laws," Durbin said, making it clear that this is the principle he's aiming to uphold today, as he tries to tackle concerns about how Muslim Americans are treated in this country. But his main focus was placed on rhetoric, not civil rights abuses, toward Muslims.
Read more... 4:41 PM, Mar 28, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARRENIllinois senator Dick Durbin will convene a hearing tomorrow on anti-Muslim bigotry, which he says will renew our nation's commitment to civil rights for Muslims. Today, New York congressman Peter King, who was roundly criticized for focusing on American Muslims at his recent hearing on homegrown radicalization, criticized Durbin for holding the hearing.
Read more... 9:00 AM, Mar 28, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARRENIn what is likely a response to Rep. Peter King's relatively tame hearings on Muslim extremism and homeland security earlier this month, Senator Dick Durbin will be holding a hearing this Tuesday to investigate the supposedly growing problem of anti-Muslim bigotry in America. USA Today reports:
Read more... How will START finish?11:44 AM, Mar 30, 2010 • By GABRIEL SCHOENFELD
The Moscow Treaty signed by George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin in 2002 did not require the actual destruction of a single U.S. or Russian warhead. All that it mandated was that warheads be taken from operational status—say, sitting on the tip of an ICBM—and moved to storage. Although the treaty was ratified by the Senate by a vote of 95 to 0, along the way Senate Democrats unrelentingly slammed the Bush administration for this deficiency.
Read more... 5:25 PM, Mar 8, 2010 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSONLast week, President Obama opined that health care "easily lends itself to demagoguery and political gamesmanship, and misrepresentation and misunderstanding." No one has done more to demonstrate the truth of this assertion than the president himself. In light of such concerns, the fairest thing might be to let the left describe Obamacare in its own words, free of any potentially false portrayals by those who oppose it -- namely, conservatives, independents, libertarians, and the bulk of the voters in Massachusetts.
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