Dick Durbin

The Politics Of Discharging Debt

Wall Street Journal | Josh Mitchell | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Obama Student Loans, Discharging Debt, Bankruptcy, Student Debt, Student Loan Debt, Student Loans, Dick Durbin, Money News

The growth of student debt is stirring debate about whether the government should step in to ease the burden by rewriting the bankruptcy laws--again. ...

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Elise Foley

Chuck Schumer Announces Plan B For Killing Arizona Immigration Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Chuck Schumer, Video, Arizona Immigration, Arizona @noad_mid_article, Dick Durbin, S.B. 1070, Arizona Immigration Law, Sb 1070, Russell Pearce, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats announced a game plan on Tuesday for dealing with immigration law SB 1070, should the Supreme Court rule in Arizona's f...

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Chris Kirkham

Senate Bill Targets Multi-Billion Dollar Ad Spending At For-Profit Colleges

HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Senate, Congress, College, Student Debt, Tom Harkin, Dick Durbin, Higher Education, Student Loan Debt, Kay Hagan, For-Profit College, Business News

The rapid growth of for-profit colleges over the past decade has been aided by billion-dollar ad campaigns on daytime television, the Internet and hig...

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Elise Foley

Immigrants Near U.S.-Canada Border Fear Racial Profiling

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Video, Cbp, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Dick Durbin, Trayvon Martin, Secure Communities, Immigration, Immigrants, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Ice, Border Patrol, CBP Racial Profiling, Racial Profiling, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Immigrants and minorities who live near the U.S. northern border are fearful of Customs and Border Protection agents, accusing them of r...

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Sam Stein

Obama Surrogate: 'When's The Last Time A Presidential Candidate Had A Swiss Bank Account?'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Barack Obama Tax Returns, Mitt Romney Bank Account, Video, Obama Tax Returns, Romney Bank Account, Romney Swiss Bank Account, Mitt Romney 2012, Dick Durbin, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney Tax Returns, Romney Tax Returns, Mitt Romney Swiss Bank Account, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A conference call organized by President Barack Obama's presidential campaign on Monday to push for higher tax rates for millionaires qu...

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8 Ways The Government Is Grappling With Student Loans

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Richard Cordray, Federal Student Loans, Student Debt, Ryan Budget, Dick Durbin, Bankruptcy Reform, John Kline, Student Loans, House Education and Workforce Committee, House Education Committee, Richard Durbin, Student Loan Rates, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Senate Education, Tim Bishop, Slidepollajax, Pell Grants, Virginia Foxx, Paul Ryan, College News

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) thinks Congress should change the law to allow borrowers to have their debt from private student loans wiped clean when fili...

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Tea Party Favorite SLAMS Dems Over NFL Bounty Outrage

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 03.25.2012

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U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh slammed Sen. Dick Durbin late last week for the Democrat's plan to look into bounties in the National Football League. The ass...

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Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Charlie Wi, March Madness, Jason Dufner, Tim Tebow Jets, Chipper Jones, Arnold Palmer Invitational, Bob Uecker, NCAA Tournament, Dick Durbin, Ron Erhardt, Nfl Instant Reply, Nfl Bounties, New York News
Len Berman

The NFL may be changing its instant replay procedure. The NFL is considering knocking the refs out of the equation. The proposal would have all replays decided upstairs in the booth.

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Senator Calls For Hearing On NFL Bounties

AP | HOWARD FENDRICH | Posted 03.22.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Senate wants to grill the NFL about bounties. And the NBA, NHL, NCAA and Major League Baseball are invited, too. Sen. Dick Durbin i...

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As the Old Guard Liberals Exit Congress, a New Breed Must Take Their Place

Pearl Korn | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: National Organization for Women, Russ Feingold, Congress, Rush Limbaugh, Afghanistan, Dick Durbin, Progressives, Alan Grayson, Green Energy, Single Payer, Citizens United, Veterans, David Gill, Nafta, Jan Schakowsky, Dennis Kucinich, Cleveland, Marcy Kaptur, Chicago, John Kasich, Term Limits, Iraq, Chicago News
Pearl Korn

Who will pick up the mantle of this unabashed progressive voice in the House? Who will stand in Dennis Kucinich's place and demand that our government do the right thing by the People and the other nations of the world?

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Could Late-Night Liquor Sale Cut-Offs Be On The Way?

Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Chicago Liquor Sales, Durbin Liquor Sales, Chicago Bar Fights, Dick Durbin, East St. Louis Bar Fights, Illinois Liquor Sales, East St. Louis, Liquor Sale Cutoff, Chicago News

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin's response to recent violence in East St. Louis could spell trouble for late-night partiers in the southwest Illinois region,...

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Ryan Grim

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Video, Epir Technologies, Earmarks, Lobbying, Dick Durbin, 112th Congress, Patrick Souders, K Street, Amy Souders, Politics News

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

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 04.08.2012

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
Ahilan Arulanantham

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

Read More: Mark Kirk Update, Video, Mark Kirk, Dick Durbin, Richard Fessler, Mark Kirk Stroke Recovery, Mark Kirk Stroke, Mark Kirk Recovery, Mark Kirk Condition, Chicago News

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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Dan Froomkin

Auction 2012: How The Bank Lobby Owns Washington

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 01.30.2012

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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Michael McAuliff

Senate Clears Way For Debt Hike

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 03.27.2012

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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

Read More: Simon Cowell, Cameras in the Courtroom, Supreme Court, Tom Ford, Clarence Thomas, Twitter, Charles Grassley, John Roberts, Dick Durbin, Cameras, Citizens United, Comedy News
Andrew Tucker Avorn

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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Michael McAuliff

Senate Kills Effort To Ban Military Detentions Of Americans At Home

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Aclu, Military Detention, National Defense Authorization Act, Citizen Detention, Guantanamo Detainees, Dick Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, Kelly Ayotte, Lindsey Graham, Detainees, Video, Indefinite Detention Bill, US Military Detention Centers, Detention of Citizens, Indefinite Detention, Military Detention Americans, Politics News

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

Read More: Payroll Tax, Making Work Pay, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Dick Durbin, Video, Thom Hartmann, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

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

Read More: Dnc, Bill Clinton, Fair Elections Now Act, Debbie Halvorson, Social Security, Budget Cuts, Bob Dold, Dick Durbin, Progressives, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Alan Grayson, Citizens United, Steve Israel, Barack Obama, Bush Tax Cuts, Deficit, Tim Johnson, Super Committee, Unemployment, Rahm Emanuel, Occupy Wall Street, Chicago, Nancy Pelosi, Dccc, Gop, Medicaid, Medicare, Tea Party, Tammy Duckworth, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Pearl Korn

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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Michael McAuliff

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Super Congress, Deficit, Video, Super Committee, Budget Cuts, Dick Durbin, Deficit Reduction, Mike Crapo, Go Big, Saxby Chambliss, Republicans Tax Cuts, Politics News

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

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
Tim Chen

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

Read More: Elderly Occupy Protest, Danny Davis, Seniors Occupy Medicare, Occupy Chicago, Video, Mark Kirk, Jan Schakowsky, Seniors Occupy Protest, Dick Durbin, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Chicago Seniors, Chicago News

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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Ryan Grim

Wells Fargo Jacks Fees Despite Record Profit

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Video, Swipe Fees, Durbin Amendment, Wells Fargo, Dick Durbin, Debit Fee, Politics News

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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