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Mr. Durbin good afternoon. Im honored to be here with my colleague, lindsey graham. Its good to business with him. Weve worked on a number of issues on a bipartisan basis. This is one of our most important priorities. Now, it was 16 years ago when i introduced the dream act. 16 years ago when the notion that these young people who were brought to the United States as toddlers and infants and children deserved an opportunity to make their way in america and prove themselves and that that law was going to give them a chance. 16 years that weve been working on this project. It was about six or se...

Quorum call during this. Id note the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call quorum call mr. Durbin mr. President , i come to the floor to discuss the republican tax reform plan and what impact it will have on the Fiscal Health of our nation, but especially the impact it will have on working families across the United States and in my home state of illinois. Ive represented illinois and congress both as a house member and a senator for a number of years. Im proud to say that during my career i have not shied away from tackling big issues, maybe one ...

Which allow Senate Republicans to move forward with their tax bill without any democrats on board and so, today around noon it starts to 50 hour clock it sounds like senator rand paul bilbies a note at this point in time. He is on happy with the discussion that is separate from the budget resolution with discretionary spending. Senator mccain wants to increase spending and rand paul wants them to continue with the spending cap based on 2011 he had a press called he also wants reconciliation to allow for health care to allow them to overhaul entitlement programs and then said that budget is sta...

1. 1 billion over 20192017. Now, we have already said what the Congressional Budget Office had reported earlier, that if we dont pass Something Like the alexandermurray proposal, this is what happens. If the if the if the costsharing payments are not made, it will go up. Our proposal would take them down. The federal debt will increase by 194 billion over ten years if we dont passion our proposal pass our proposal due to the extra cost of higher premiums and up to 16 million americans may live in counties where theyre not able to buy any insurance in individual markets. Now, there are 350,000 ...

Database that searches when people attempt to purchase firearms but when the federal government doesnt do this it is reported that the air force simply through interventions, human error or somewhere failed to do it then there is nothing there to contradict the misrepresentation by the purchaser when they go to buymc it. We leave these remarks to return to live coverage of the senate here on cspan2 fficer wt objection. Mr. Mccain mr. President , in recent months the United States and Coalition Forces have achieved major gains against isis in iraq and syria. U. S. Coalition partners have libera...