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      <excerpt>...the state senate political committee. I caught up with Cullerton, his wife Pam, state Sen. Dan Kotowski (D-Park Ridge) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) as they were leaving the delegation meeting in Durbin's Senate leadership offices in the Capitol. Durbin</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks to the media Wednesday about the Democratic health care bill in Washington. Sens. Chris Dodd (left), D-Conn.; Al Franken, D-Minn., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., listen in the back. manuel balce ceneta /Associated Press </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...the size of legislation it was that bank bailout bill that the last president proposed that was only three pages long,&quot; said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. &quot;There was a work of wisdom.&quot; And then there are some sticking points that aren't even in the House or </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...judges in a place as liberal as New York City are capable of doling out harsh punishment to infamous terrorists.  Sen. Dick Durbin calls a plan to transfer 100 Guantanamo detainees to northwest Illinois &quot;a dream come true.&quot; It would paint a bull's-eye o</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, in Washington. Sens. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., Al Franken, D-Minn., second left, and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., listen in the back. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)Sens. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., left, Al Franken, D-Minn., Ch</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...and Rockford, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, who took over from the disgraced Rod Blagojevich, and Illinois' senior U.S. senator, Dick Durbin, stumped for the plan, calling it &quot;a dream come true.&quot; We call it a nightmare on Main Street. They argued a revived T</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...``more than 100 of them delivered over a 10-year period.'' ``He has cast more votes 18,585 than any other senator ever,'' Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) marveled. Records are nothing new to Byrd, who turns 92 Friday and whose term ends in 2012. He became the</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...a new prison to hold detainees from the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison or upgrading an existing facility to hold them. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who's advocating bringing Guantanamo detainees to a largely vacant state prison in rural Illinois, rall</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...for budgetary reasons was not fully staffed or operated. The administration's proposal got strong endorsements from Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, a Democrat, who envision good-paying jobs for an economically distressed area. U.S</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Dick Durbin said the health care bill has to pass the Senate this year. (CNN) &#8211; The Senate's second-ranking Democrat told CNN Tuesday that he hopes to have a version of the health care bill done and available to the public by Thanksgiving.  Sen. Dick </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Chris Dodd, D-Conn., left, Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., second left, and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., right, speaks to the media about the Democratic health care bill on Capitol Hill Nov. 18. (... Harry Reid Wants to Vote on a Phantom Bill (Dem ...</excerpt>
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