Dick Durbin

Family Affair: Dick Durbin Aide's Spouse Lobbied For Illinois Company's Earmark

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 02.11.2012 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- An Illinois company has received millions of dollars worth of earmarks from the office of home-state Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) -- while ...

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Reid Hits Back Against GOP Measure Targeting Marginalized Group

Posted 02.08.2012 | Politics

Read More: Payroll Tax Cut Extension, Video, Undocumented Immigrants, Payroll Tax Cut, Illegal Immigration, Dick Durbin, Child Tax Credit, Harry Reid, Child Tax Credit Undocumented Immigrants, Immigration, Claire McCaskill, Undocumented, Payroll Tax, Politics News

By ANDREW TAYLOR, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Republicans are looking to deny child tax credits to undocumented immigrants--refund checks av...

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Four Years Frozen in ICE

Ahilan Arulanantham | Posted 02.07.2012 | Los Angeles

Read More: Immigration, Ice, Mental Disability, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Mental Illness, Pete Stark, Immigrant Detention, Ensuring Mental Competence in Immigration Proceedings Act, Janet Napolitano, Dick Durbin, Los Angeles News

Like thousands of other people in 2006, Jose Franco was detained by immigration authorities. Most detainees are either deported to their country of origin or released. But this case took a different route.

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Kirk's Condition Upgraded To Good, Senator Watched Super Bowl

Posted 02.06.2012 | Chicago

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U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), still recovering from a ischemic stroke and undergoing brain surgery more than two weeks ago, has seen his condition ...

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Auction 2012: How The Bank Lobby Owns Washington

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 01.30.2012 | Politics

Read More: Financial Services, Auction 2012, Lobbying, Lobbyists, ATM Fees, Tom Harkin, Dick Durbin, Credit Card Rates, Bernie Sanders, Big Banks, Cramdown, Video, Sheldon Whitehouse, Bank Lobby, Banks, Financial Crisis, American Bankers Association, Brad Miller, Politics News

Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. When Washington puts policy on the auction bl...

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Senate Clears Way For Debt Hike

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 01.26.2012 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Thursday to let the president raise the nation's debt limit by about $1.2 trillion, voting down a measure that would ha...

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Why Stop at Cameras in the Supreme Court?

Andrew Tucker Avorn | Posted 02.11.2012 | Comedy

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The United State Congress is trying to force The Supreme Court to broadcast oral arguments on television. But why stop at cameras in the courtroom? Here are some other ideas to spruce up Supreme Court arguments.

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Senate Kills Effort To Ban Military Detentions Of Americans At Home

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.03.2011 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- Senators compromised Thursday on a bill that attempts to spell out the military's right to detain Americans indefinitely, killing a bid ...

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The Long Game: Payroll Taxes, Hostage-Taking, and Social Security

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 01.29.2012 | Politics

Read More: Payroll Tax, Making Work Pay, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Dick Durbin, Video, Thom Hartmann, Politics News

By proposing to expand and extend the 'payroll tax holiday,' Democrats have bypassed more efficient ways to help the economy, and have once again endangered Social Security.

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Why Does the Democratic Party Continue to Work Against the 99%?

Pearl Korn | Posted 01.28.2012 | Politics

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Who are these people that we've sent to Washington to represent us? Do they live in this country? Do they see the same news reports, pass the same shuttered businesses, hear the same desperate stories from their friends and family? One has to wonder.

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GOP Senator: Republicans Could Bend On Taxes If Super Committee 'Goes Big'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 11.16.2011 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of lawmakers suggested Republicans would be willing to raise certain taxes to shrink the deficit, as long as the debt...

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Are Bank Fees Too Complex? The Case for Fee Transparency

Tim Chen | Posted 01.11.2012 | Business

Read More: TD Bank, Bank Fees, Pew Research Center, Dick Durbin, Citibank, Bank of America, Credit Cards, Debit Card Fees, Checking Fees, Jack Reed, Business News

Do your best to read every bit of bank paperwork that comes your way, and take responsibility for understanding your account terms. If you don't understand something, or don't like a new fee, don't wait to ask about it.

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Senior Arrested Protesting Cuts To Social Services: 'I'm Ready To Make Noise'

The Huffington Post | Lizzie Schiffman | Posted 01.07.2012 | Chicago

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More than 1,000 senior citizens and their supporters marched from Chicago's Federal Plaza to the intersection of Jackson and Clark Street Monday morni...

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Wells Fargo Jacks Fees Despite Record Profit

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.19.2011 | Politics

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Just days after Wells Fargo announced a $4 billion profit over the past three months, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has asked the bank why it feels forced...

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Illinois Senators Differ On 'Occupy,' Kirk Calls Protests 'Unintellectual'

Posted 12.18.2011 | Chicago

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Illinois' two U.S. senators this week addressed the continuing Occupy Wall Street demonstrations that have only continued to grow in their home state ...

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Bank of America's Outrageous Debit Fee -- Another Reason to Break Up the Big Wall Street Banks

Robert Creamer | Posted 12.10.2011 | Politics

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Let's make Bank of America remember the old adage: "The pigs get fat and the hogs get slaughtered." Let's use their own greed to stoke the "Occupy Wall Street" sentiment that is -- quite correctly -- sweeping the country.

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Bank of America, Adam Smith and a Fee Market System

Adam Levin | Posted 12.09.2011 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Bank Fees, Dodd-Frank, Durbin Amendment, Dick Durbin, Bank of America, Interchange Fees, Overdraft Fees, Bofa, Debit Cards, Debit Card Fees, Barack Obama, Credit Card Fees, Business News

In keeping with the new Durbin-inspired trend of candor and brevity, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan justified the new fee by saying, "we have the right to make a profit." Translation: I think they need the dough.

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Movement To Abandon Bank Of America Picks Up Key Backer

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.06.2011 | Politics

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On Sunday night, Rep. Brad Miller, a Democrat from Bank of America's home state of North Carolina, attended a general assembly meeting of Occupy Ralei...

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Durbin: Debit Card Fees Could Help Smaller Banks, Businesses

HuffingtonPost.com | Lizzie Schiffman | Posted 12.04.2011 | Chicago

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Following announcements late last week that Bank of America was planning to charge a $5 fee for debit card use, and that other banks were considering ...

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Dems On Offense Against Bank Of America For Debit Fee

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.30.2011 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- While demonstrators in New York are calling for an occupation of Wall Street, a new push by Democrats in Congress proposes a different t...

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A Winning Game Plan

Ed Crego, George Muñoz and Frank Islam | Posted 11.27.2011 | Politics

Read More: Congressional Dysfunction, Dick Durbin, Citizens United, Campaign Finance, Finance Reform, Bill Nelson, Howard Schultz, Deficit, Dick Lugar, Bob Casey, Schultz Bipartisan, Howard Schultz Economy, Politics News

Mr. Schultz and his cohorts are to be commended for stepping forward as concerned citizen-leaders at this time of great urgency.

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Lindsey Graham: 'Everything Is Worse' Under Obama

Posted 11.18.2011 | Politics

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Sunday that "everything is worse" under President Barack Obama. "This is our election to lose," Graham told Ca...

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Dick Durbin: GOP Candidates 'Bow And Genuflect' To Tea Party

Posted 11.18.2011 | Politics

Read More: Tea Party Debt Ceiling, Gop Candidates Tea Party, Video, 2012 Gop Candidates, Obama Reelection, Dick Durbin, Gop Primary 2012, Elections 2012, James Carville, Obama Reelection 2012, Tea Party, Dick Durbin Tea Party, GOP Candidates, Politics News

GOP candidates "bow and genuflect" to the Tea Party, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." "As I listen to the Repub...

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Democratic Leaders: Jobs Plan Will Receive Support From Caucus

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.15.2011 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Richard Durbin, White House, Mark Begich, Oil Subsidies, Dick Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, Jobs, Jobs Plan, American Jobs Act, Senate Democrats, David Plouffe, Obama Jobs Plan, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Hours after it was reported that Democrats were abandoning a jobs bill before it was introduced, party leadership insisted that Democrat...

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4 Teens Shot Near Mayor's Planned Meeting On South Side

Posted 10.31.2011 | Chicago

Read More: Four Teens Shot Chicago, Poverty, University of Chicago, Dick Durbin, Chicago Poverty, Chicago Gang Violence, Barack Obama, Shaun Donovan, Affordable Housing, 4 Shot Chicago, Choice Neighborhoods Grant, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Violence, Hud, HUD Grants, Chicago News

Four teens were wounded Tuesday night in a drive-by shooting in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood--where Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Sen. Dick Durbin and U.S. H...

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