Dick Durbin

• White House marching forward with military parade idea

  A Pentagon spokesman, Charlie Summers, says Pentagon officials are aware of the request and are "looking at options."

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  Feb 7, 2018
  
• House intelligence panel will consider Democratic memo Monday

  The House Intelligence Committee will consider on Monday whether to release the Democratic rebuttal to a Republican memo that alleged bias at the FBI and Justice Department against Donald Trump.

  Feb 4, 2018
  
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• Democrats deliver stern warning to Donald Trump in wake of disputed memo

  Democrats warned Donald Trump that firing top law enforcement officials could "lead to a confrontation we do not need in America."

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  Feb 4, 2018
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• Trump’s alleged use of racially charged slur prompts heated Senate debate

  "Your silence and your amnesia is complicity," Democratic Senator Cory Booker told U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, in one of the hearing's most dramatic moments.

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  Jan 16, 2018
• Donald Trump repeatedly called African nations ‘shitholes,’ senator says

  Dick Durbin, who was in the meeting with Trump, told reporters the president did say “these hate-filled things” and repeatedly called African nations “shitholes.”

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  Jan 12, 2018
• Pope Francis urged to defend gay US official in dispute with Dominican cardinal

  A high-ranking Democratic senator called on Pope Francis Tuesday to personally intervene with a cardinal in the Dominican Republic who has made derogatory comments about the openly gay man who is the U.S. ambassador to the Caribbean country.

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  Dec 15, 2015