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							<title><![CDATA[Holding Trump Accountable for Turning Military on Cities]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ice-chicago-raid-trump-durbin-rcna242614</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Dick Durbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Excessive militarized ICE raids and misuse of the military will not make Chicago safer, writes Sen. Dick Durbin.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Closing Federal Offices Punishes Everyday Americans]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-dick-durbin-closing-federal-offices-punishes-everyday-americans</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Dick Durbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sen. Dick Durbin writes how Elon Musk and DOGE are cutting too many federal leases. That means no local office for Social Security and no SBA office for students to discuss student loans.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time for Republicans To Get Serious on Immigration]]></title>
							<link>https://rollcall.com/2023/11/14/working-in-america-time-for-republicans-to-get-serious-on-immigration/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Dick Durbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last month, our country narrowly avoided a government shutdown, and another deadline looms just days away.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Counter China's Growing Economic Power]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/574811-how-to-counter-chinas-growing-economic-power-around-the</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Dick Durbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I believe that economic partnership, transparency, and shared values will triumph over wolf warrior economic coercion. Countries around the world value their right to make sovereign decisions, and they will not buckle under the pressure of aggressive Chinese retribution.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[American Freedom Is on the Line]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/562194-american-freedom-is-on-the-line</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Dick Durbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans are calling on this Senate to protect the integrity of our democracy '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and to secure our Constitutional rights. If preserving the right to vote means reforming the Senate's rules, then so be it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Bridge to Equality and Prosperity]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/554603-a-bridge-to-equality-and-prosperity</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Dick Durbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today, our nation's greatest resource is the American people. But they are struggling to keep pace in a rapidly changing world. We can fix that.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lessons Learned on the Plains of Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/05/02/afghanistan-has-history-being-unbendable-u-s-has-learned-column/7384677002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Dick Durbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now, after the longest war in our history, America and its NATO allies are leaving after we lost sight of our original mission.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As Republicans Attack Voter Rights, Congress Has to Step In]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/20/opinions/voter-rights-suppression-congress-durbin/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Dick Durbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democratic Senator Dick Durbin writes that the federal government must act fast to overturn a wave of voter suppression efforts across the nation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gupta Deserves to Be Confirmed as Associate AG]]></title>
							<link>https://www.rollcall.com/2021/04/16/why-vanita-gupta-deserves-to-be-confirmed-as-associate-attorney-general/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Dick Durbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vanita Gupta would bring to the DOJ a depth of experience, commitment to the rule of law and a willingness to work with all sides.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Garland Deserves to Become New Attorney General]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/539856-why-merrick-garland-deserves-to-become-the-new-attorney-general</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Dick Durbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He can restore our faith in the rule of law.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's at Stake With Trump's SCOTUS Nomination]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/03/opinions/affordable-care-act-in-danger-trump-mcconnell-scotus-dick-durbin/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Dick Durbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans are trying to accomplish in the courts what they could not accomplish in Congress, writes Sen. Dick Durbin. If President Trump and Sen. McConnell go through with their plan to jam through a Supreme Court nominee this year, the Affordable Care Act and its protections -- during...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Admin Is Slowing Delivery of Your Mail]]></title>
							<link>https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2020/8/12/21365010/usps-postal-service-budget-cuts-louis-dejoy-mail-in-elections-dick-durbin</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Dick Durbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During this unprecedented time '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the confluence of a deadly pandemic and an election where voting by mail will be more necessary than ever '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' an effective Postal Service is vital to public health and our democracy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Amend the Constitution to Protect Voting Rights]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/opinions/amend-constitution-protect-voting-rights-durbin/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Dick Durbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dick Durbin writes that Congress must amend the Constitution to enshrine an affirmative right to vote and to ensure that efforts to limit that fundamental right be subject to strict scrutiny.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court and Congress Must Defend Dreamers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/12/opinions/daca-supreme-court-congress-durbin-lofgren/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Dick Durbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sen. Dick Durbin and Rep. Zoe Lofgren write that President Trump's repeal of DACA was illegal, so this should be a straightforward case for the Supreme Court. And with two House passed bills, which fight back against Trump's cruel decision to repeal DACA, pending in the Senate, Congress...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[With Maduro Out, Democracy Is Coming to Venezuela]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/02/01/dick-durbin-maduro-putin-trump-guaido-venezuela-column/2735516002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Dick Durbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When I met Juan Guaid'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('³').';', it was in secret in Caracas. Now, his love of the Venezuelan people finally puts his country on the path to democratic rule.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No More Silence on Gun Limits]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped1217-durbin-20121217,0,6755900.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Dick Durbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What will it take?What will it take for a majority of Americans to speak out for a sensible firearms policy in our nation?It will take more than a congresswoman being shot point-blank in the face as she gathers for a town meeting in Arizona.It will take more than a deranged gunman with a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Keep Social Security Out of &quot;Cliff&quot; Talks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/11/27/social-security-dick-durbin/1730633/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Dick Durbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[8:43PM EST November 27. 2012 - When I arrived in Washington as a freshman congressman in January 1983, I was stunned to learn that in six months, Social Security would be bankrupt. With potential calamity near, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make the changes necessary to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Thomson to Be U.S.'s Safest Prison]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/72621-thomson-to-be-uss-safest-prison-</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sen. Dick Durbin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In July of 2006, I visited the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It was important for me to see Guantanamo firsthand and to meet the military personnel who are doing such a great job for our country.For some time prior to that visit, I had been critical of the Bush...]]></description>
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