WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 12, 2024: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today sent letters to the CEOs of Visa, Mastercard, United Airlines, and American Airlines inviting them to testify at a public hearing regarding competition in the credit card market. Durbin said, "Visa and Mastercard have aggressively opposed efforts to  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)--a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee--met with Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara to discuss their shared priorities in building on the over 190 years of diplomatic relations between our two nations--an alliance that both have mutually benefitted from militarily, diplomatically, economically and culturally more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- The House Veterans' Affairs Committee issued the following written testimony by Illinois veteran Marisa Schultz involving a hearing on Jan. 11, 2024, entitled "Rural Access: Is VA Meeting All Veterans Where They Live?": * * * I want to begin by thanking Chairman Bost, Ranking Member Takano and Members of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs for this opportunity to speak as a representative of the rural veteran community. I greatly appreciate the Committee's dedicatio more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 12, 2024: U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) today sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta Chairman and CEO, requesting he fulfill the commitment he made at last month's explosive Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Zuckerberg promised to "personally look into"  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced on the Senate floor that he has filed the Dream Act as an amendment to the National Security Supplemental. The legislation would allow noncitizens without lawful status who were brought to the United States as children and meet certain education or work requiremen more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), vice chairman of the Committee, led a legislative hearing on - * S. 2385, Tribal Access to Clean Water Act of 2023; * S. 2796, A bill to provide for the equitable settlement of certain Indian land disputes regarding land in Ill more PR