WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Bill would allow service members to consolidate or refinance pre-service private or federal student loan debt and retain a six percent rate cap Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today introduced the Servicemember Student Loan Affordability Act, legislation that would amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) to allow service members to consolidate or r  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: The funding was made available through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which Duckworth and Durbin supported Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Representative Nikki Budzinski (D-IL-13) today announced that Sangamon Mass Transit District will receive $17,807,630 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The funding will sup  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: The funding was made available through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which Duckworth and Durbin supported Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Representative Eric Sorensen (D-IL-17) today announced a total of $25,415,095 in U.S. Department of Transportation funding for the Rock Island County Metropolitan Mass Transit District (MetroLINK) and   more

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: In a speech on the Senate floor, Durbin calls out the Bangladeshi government for levying fraudulent charges against Professor Yunus Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today delivered a speech on the Senate floor calling on the Bangladesh government to end its harassment toward Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, as he faces his upcoming court dates, where he could be sentenced to   more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned witnesses at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled, "Closing the Justice Gap: How to Make the Civil Justice System Accessible to All Americans." Today's hearing examined the "civil justice gap," which is the gap between the civil legal needs of low-income Americans and the services available to m  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today announced that Pace, the Suburban Bus Division of the Regional Transportation Authority, will receive $30,911,000 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation. With this award, Pace plans to purchase hybrid electric buses to replace vehicles that have exceeded their useful life and upgrade its maintena  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Bill would allow service members to consolidate or refinance pre-service or federal student loan debt, and retain six percent rate cap Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today introduced the Servicemember Student Loan Affordability Act, legislation that would amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) to allow service members to consolidate or refinanc  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: The funding was made available through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which Durbin and Duckworth supported Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), and U.S. Representative Nikki Budzinski (D-IL-13) today announced that Sangamon Mass Transit District will receive $17,807,630 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The funding will   more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: The funding was made available through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which Durbin and Duckworth supported Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), and U.S. Representative Eric Sorensen (D-IL-17) today announced a total of $25,415,095 in U.S. Department of Transportation funding for the Rock Island County Metropolitan Mass Transit District (MetroLINK) a  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Nikki Budzinski, D-Illinois, issued the following news release on July 9, 2024: Today, Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) and Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth announced that Sangamon Mass Transit District (SMTD) will receive $17,807,630 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The funding will support Sangamon Mass Transit District in replacing its fleet of older buses with diesel-hybrid and compressed natural gas buses that reduce ha  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Rep. Bill Foster, D-Illinois, issued the following news release on July 9, 2024: Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced the Medical Records Access Fairness Act, which would require health care providers to give patients access to their medical records at no cost at least once per year. Medical records fees that doctor's offices charge patients can often be a financial burden. If a patient is unable to afford to pay for copies of their own medical records, it c  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Full Text of Letter (PDF) Today, Representatives Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Hank Johnson (D-GA) and Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) led 17 Members of Congress in sending a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressing concern over the status of the case of murdered Honduran Indigenous rights defender Berta Caceres. The legislators urged Secretary Blinken to closely monitor the pending appeals and conve  more

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Judge Maldonado will be the first Hispanic judge to serve on the Seventh Circuit Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today released the following statement after the U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Judge Nancy L. Maldonado to be a United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit. Judge Maldonado will be the  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today spoke about the Supreme Court's recently finished term and its series of disastrous decisions that once again have upended our constitutional landscape. "The Court's radical conservative supermajority discarded decades of longstanding  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Rep. Eric Sorensen, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Congressman Eric Sorensen (IL-17), U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today announced a total of $25,415,095 in U.S. Department of Transportation funding for the Rock Island County Metropolitan Mass Transit District (MetroLINK) and the Greater Peoria Mass Transit District. Of that funding, $10,000,000 will be awarded to MetroLINK and $14,415,095 will be awarded  more