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July 14, 2021 Tweet - "As the pandemic raged in 2020, so did our nation's opioid epidemic. To address this, the #AmericanRescuePlan provided billions in funding to address mental health & addiction needs in our communities. We must continue to expand access to treatment & prevent the pain of addiction." Sen. Dick Durbin
June 21, 2021 Tweet - "We now know that this wrong-headed crack-powder disparity has ruined thousands of lives and failed to move us one step closer to ending the scourge of drug addiction in America. Enough. #EndtheDisparity" Sen. Dick Durbin
June 17, 2021 Tweet - "Since passage of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, the crack & powder cocaine sentencing disparity has disproportionately impacted people of color. It's time to right our wrong. I look forward to discussing legislative solutions, including mine & @SenBooker's bipartisan EQUAL Act." Sen. Dick Durbin
June 16, 2021 Durbin, Capito, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Legislation To Address Childhood Trauma Sen. Dick Durbin
May 26, 2021 Durbin Questions Nominees To Lead ATF And DEA In Judiciary Committee Hearing Sen. Dick Durbin
May 26, 2021 Reps. Schneider, Kuster, McKinley Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Train More Doctors to Combat Opioid Epidemic Rep. Brad Schneider
May 13, 2021 Trone, Krishnamoorthi, Stewart Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Curb Youth Vaping Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi, ...
May 7, 2021 Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi Reintroduces The END ENDS Act To Limit Nicotine Concentration In E-Cigarettes And Mitigate Youth Addiction Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
April 29, 2021 Extending Temporary Emergency Scheduling of Fentanyl Analogues Act Sen. Dick Durbin
April 23, 2021 Tweet - "Thank you to @NAMIChicago, @RecoverGateway, and @ocartman1 for joining me today to discuss trauma in our communities & the opioid and mental health crisis. Even before COVID-19, we were in the midst of the worst drug overdose epidemic in history and alarming rates of suicide." Sen. Dick Durbin
April 21, 2021 Nomination of Vanita Gupta Sen. Dick Durbin
April 21, 2021 Portman, Durbin Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Save Seniors, Taxpayers Billions in Prescription Drug Costs Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
April 19, 2021 Letter to the Hon. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Senator Markey Leads Colleagues in Urging Fda to Ban Menthol Cigarettes Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
April 16, 2021 Letter to the Hon. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Feinstein, Markey, Colleagues Urge FDA to Ban Menthol Cigarettes Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
March 26, 2021 Tweet - "Mandatory minimum penalties have led to sentences that are unfair, fiscally irresponsible,& threaten public safety. The First Step Act was a critical move in the right direction but there's more we need to do to reform our criminal justice system. Our bill is a common sense step." Sen. Dick Durbin
March 25, 2021 Tweet - "Barring legal cannabis businesses from traditional banking services puts unnecessary risk on business owners & the community. I'm joining my colleagues to introduce the SAFE Banking Act to allow legal cannabis businesses owners access to banking services." Sen. Dick Durbin
March 25, 2021 Durbin, Senate Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Provide Legal Cannabis Businesses Access To Critical Financial Services Sen. Dick Durbin
March 12, 2021 Reps. Smucker & Underwood Introduce Legislation to Improve Adoption Outcomes for Children Impacted by the Opioid Epidemic Rep. Lauren Underwood, ...
Feb. 24, 2021 Tweet - "While COVID-19 has captured our attention, two other deadly epidemics in America rage on: opioids & the mental health crisis. We must pass the American Rescue Plan to provide our communities with the resources they need to support struggling families & expand treatment services." Sen. Dick Durbin
Feb. 23, 2021 Coronavirus Sen. Dick Durbin
Feb. 19, 2021 Tweet - "The First Step Act authorizes relief to everyone who had been sentenced for crack-cocaine offenses before the Fair Sentencing Act became effective in 2010, including individuals with low-level crack offenses." Sen. Dick Durbin
Feb. 19, 2021 In Amicus Brief, Durbin, Grassley, Booker, Lee Call On Supreme Court To Make Lowest-Level Drug Offenders Eligible For First Step Act Relief Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Feb. 18, 2021 Letter to Joe Biden, President of the United States - Blumenauer and Lee Urge President Biden to Pardon Federal Cannabis Offenses Rep. Chuy Garcia, ...
Feb. 11, 2021 Durbin, Lee, Coons To Introduce Bipartisan Smarter Pretrial Detention For Drug Charges Act Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Feb. 4, 2021 Letter to Dr. Nora D. Volkow, Director of The National Institute on Drug Abuse - Brown, Capito Lead Letter Supporting Enhanced Research and Development of Methamphetamine Treatment Options Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
Jan. 28, 2021 Tweet - "The sentencing disparity between crack & powder cocaine disproportionally impacts people of color. @SenBooker and I are introducing the EQUAL Act to get rid of this discriminatory sentencing disparity for good." Sen. Dick Durbin
Jan. 28, 2021 Durbin, Booker Announce Legislation To Eliminate Federal Crack And Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Jan. 27, 2021 Booker and Durbin Announce Legislation To Eliminate Federal Crack and Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Dec. 23, 2020 Congressman Krishnamoorthi Condemns CEO Of Purdue Pharma L.P. Still Receiving $3 Million Bonus After The Company Pleaded Guilty To Three Felony Counts Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
Dec. 22, 2020 Warren, Blumenthal, Durbin, Krishnamoorthi And DeGette Question Tobacco Companies Exploitative E-Cigarette Advertisements During The COVID-19 Pandemic Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
Dec. 11, 2020 Davis, LaHood Announce $125,000 Drug-Free Communities Grant to BN Parents Rep. Darin LaHood, ...
Dec. 4, 2020 Schakowsky Statement on Passage of Marijuana Decriminalization Bill Rep. Jan Schakowsky
Dec. 4, 2020 Rep. García Votes to Decriminalize Cannabis and Reinvest in Communities Adversely Affected by the War on Drugs Rep. Chuy Garcia
Nov. 25, 2020 Tweet - "The President should use the pardon power to redress manifest injustices, not shamelessly cover up the corruption that touched the core of this Administration. I hope President-elect Biden will use clemency to help right the wrongs of our misguided "war on drugs."" Sen. Dick Durbin
Nov. 10, 2020 Letter to the Hon. William Barr, Attorney General for the Dept. of Justice - Durbin, Senators Call On DOJ To Stop Plans To Make Purdue Pharma A Public Benefit Corporation Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Oct. 23, 2020 Tweet - "Purdue Pharma flooded America with painkillers and lies, profiting off the addiction epidemic they created. Too many lives have been lost for the Trump DOJ to let the billionaire Sackler family off the hook with a disgraceful civil settlement of $500 for each life lost." Sen. Dick Durbin
Oct. 22, 2020 Durbin Statement On Purdue Pharma DOJ Settlement Sen. Dick Durbin
Sept. 15, 2020 Letter to Mr. Stephen J. Ubl, President and CEO of PhRMA - Senators Demand Big Pharma Allow Low-income Patients to Access Lifesaving, Discounted 340B Drugs and Care Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
Sept. 9, 2020 Tweet - "Under our Constitution, defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty. But far too many are detained pending trial when they haven't been convicted of any crime & pose no threat to society. We can't end mass incarceration unless we end the overuse of pretrial detention." Sen. Dick Durbin
Sept. 9, 2020 Durbin, Lee, Coons Introduce Bipartisan Smarter Pretrial Detention For Drug Charges Act Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Sept. 9, 2020 Sens. Coons, Durbin, Lee Introduce Bipartisan Smarter Pretrial Detention for Drug Charges Act Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Aug. 31, 2020 Tweet - "The #COVID19 pandemic has only compounded the drug overdose crisis facing our nation. This #OverdoseAwarenessDay, we must continue to remove barriers to drug treatment, increase community support & stop Big Pharma from flooding the market with opioids." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 5, 2020 U.S. Senators Tina Smith, Merkley Unveil Plan to Prevent Pharmaceutical Companies from Price Gouging COVID-19 Vaccines, Treatments Rep. Jan Schakowsky, ...
Aug. 3, 2020 Tweet - "10 years ago today, @BarackObama signed into law my Fair Sentencing Act--the 1st bill since the beginning of the war on drugs to lower sentences for drug offenses. Since then, it has reduced sentences for thousands of prisoners by tens of thousands of years." Sen. Dick Durbin
Aug. 1, 2020 Tweet - "For years @DEAHQ allowed pharma to flood the market with painkillers. In 2018 @SenJohnKennedy & I changed the law to require DEA to be a gatekeeper & consider health impacts when setting opioid production quotas. As overdoses spike amid #COVID19, DEA must prevent this oversupply" Sen. Dick Durbin
July 30, 2020 Foster Unique Patient ID Amendment Adopted by House Rep. Bill Foster
July 30, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Timothy Shea, Acting Administrator for the Drug Enforcement Administration - Durbin, Kennedy Urge DEA To Use Authority To Reduce Excessive Opioid Production Quotas Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
July 23, 2020 LaHood, Ferguson Introduce the Bringing Back American Jobs Through Intellectual Property Repatriation Act Rep. Darin LaHood, ...
July 21, 2020 VIDEO: Though PhRMA Claims COVID-19 Vaccine Will Be Sold at No Profit, Drug Companies Tell Schakowsky a Different Story Rep. Jan Schakowsky
July 21, 2020 Durbin Introduces Bill To Combat Opioid Addiction As Nation Sees Rise In Overdose Deaths Amid COVID-19 Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
Date Title Politician
July 14, 2021 Tweet - "As the pandemic raged in 2020, so did our nation's opioid epidemic. To address this, the #AmericanRescuePlan provided billions in funding to address mental health & addiction needs in our communities. We must continue to expand access to treatment & prevent the pain of addiction." Sen.Dick Durbin
June 21, 2021 Tweet - "We now know that this wrong-headed crack-powder disparity has ruined thousands of lives and failed to move us one step closer to ending the scourge of drug addiction in America. Enough. #EndtheDisparity" Sen.Dick Durbin
June 17, 2021 Tweet - "Since passage of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, the crack & powder cocaine sentencing disparity has disproportionately impacted people of color. It's time to right our wrong. I look forward to discussing legislative solutions, including mine & @SenBooker's bipartisan EQUAL Act." Sen.Dick Durbin
June 16, 2021 Durbin, Capito, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Legislation To Address Childhood Trauma Sen.Dick Durbin
May 26, 2021 Durbin Questions Nominees To Lead ATF And DEA In Judiciary Committee Hearing Sen.Dick Durbin
May 26, 2021 Reps. Schneider, Kuster, McKinley Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Train More Doctors to Combat Opioid Epidemic Rep.Brad Schneider
May 13, 2021 Trone, Krishnamoorthi, Stewart Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Curb Youth Vaping Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi, ...
May 7, 2021 Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi Reintroduces The END ENDS Act To Limit Nicotine Concentration In E-Cigarettes And Mitigate Youth Addiction Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
April 29, 2021 Extending Temporary Emergency Scheduling of Fentanyl Analogues Act Sen.Dick Durbin
April 23, 2021 Tweet - "Thank you to @NAMIChicago, @RecoverGateway, and @ocartman1 for joining me today to discuss trauma in our communities & the opioid and mental health crisis. Even before COVID-19, we were in the midst of the worst drug overdose epidemic in history and alarming rates of suicide." Sen.Dick Durbin
April 21, 2021 Nomination of Vanita Gupta Sen.Dick Durbin
April 21, 2021 Portman, Durbin Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Save Seniors, Taxpayers Billions in Prescription Drug Costs Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
April 19, 2021 Letter to the Hon. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Senator Markey Leads Colleagues in Urging Fda to Ban Menthol Cigarettes Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
April 16, 2021 Letter to the Hon. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Feinstein, Markey, Colleagues Urge FDA to Ban Menthol Cigarettes Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
March 26, 2021 Tweet - "Mandatory minimum penalties have led to sentences that are unfair, fiscally irresponsible,& threaten public safety. The First Step Act was a critical move in the right direction but there's more we need to do to reform our criminal justice system. Our bill is a common sense step." Sen.Dick Durbin
March 25, 2021 Tweet - "Barring legal cannabis businesses from traditional banking services puts unnecessary risk on business owners & the community. I'm joining my colleagues to introduce the SAFE Banking Act to allow legal cannabis businesses owners access to banking services." Sen.Dick Durbin
March 25, 2021 Durbin, Senate Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Provide Legal Cannabis Businesses Access To Critical Financial Services Sen.Dick Durbin
March 12, 2021 Reps. Smucker & Underwood Introduce Legislation to Improve Adoption Outcomes for Children Impacted by the Opioid Epidemic Rep.Lauren Underwood, ...
Feb. 24, 2021 Tweet - "While COVID-19 has captured our attention, two other deadly epidemics in America rage on: opioids & the mental health crisis. We must pass the American Rescue Plan to provide our communities with the resources they need to support struggling families & expand treatment services." Sen.Dick Durbin
Feb. 23, 2021 Coronavirus Sen.Dick Durbin
Feb. 19, 2021 Tweet - "The First Step Act authorizes relief to everyone who had been sentenced for crack-cocaine offenses before the Fair Sentencing Act became effective in 2010, including individuals with low-level crack offenses." Sen.Dick Durbin
Feb. 19, 2021 In Amicus Brief, Durbin, Grassley, Booker, Lee Call On Supreme Court To Make Lowest-Level Drug Offenders Eligible For First Step Act Relief Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
Feb. 18, 2021 Letter to Joe Biden, President of the United States - Blumenauer and Lee Urge President Biden to Pardon Federal Cannabis Offenses Rep.Chuy Garcia, ...
Feb. 11, 2021 Durbin, Lee, Coons To Introduce Bipartisan Smarter Pretrial Detention For Drug Charges Act Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
Feb. 4, 2021 Letter to Dr. Nora D. Volkow, Director of The National Institute on Drug Abuse - Brown, Capito Lead Letter Supporting Enhanced Research and Development of Methamphetamine Treatment Options Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
Jan. 28, 2021 Tweet - "The sentencing disparity between crack & powder cocaine disproportionally impacts people of color. @SenBooker and I are introducing the EQUAL Act to get rid of this discriminatory sentencing disparity for good." Sen.Dick Durbin
Jan. 28, 2021 Durbin, Booker Announce Legislation To Eliminate Federal Crack And Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
Jan. 27, 2021 Booker and Durbin Announce Legislation To Eliminate Federal Crack and Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
Dec. 23, 2020 Congressman Krishnamoorthi Condemns CEO Of Purdue Pharma L.P. Still Receiving $3 Million Bonus After The Company Pleaded Guilty To Three Felony Counts Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
Dec. 22, 2020 Warren, Blumenthal, Durbin, Krishnamoorthi And DeGette Question Tobacco Companies Exploitative E-Cigarette Advertisements During The COVID-19 Pandemic Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
Dec. 11, 2020 Davis, LaHood Announce $125,000 Drug-Free Communities Grant to BN Parents Rep.Darin LaHood, ...
Dec. 4, 2020 Schakowsky Statement on Passage of Marijuana Decriminalization Bill Rep.Jan Schakowsky
Dec. 4, 2020 Rep. García Votes to Decriminalize Cannabis and Reinvest in Communities Adversely Affected by the War on Drugs Rep.Chuy Garcia
Nov. 25, 2020 Tweet - "The President should use the pardon power to redress manifest injustices, not shamelessly cover up the corruption that touched the core of this Administration. I hope President-elect Biden will use clemency to help right the wrongs of our misguided "war on drugs."" Sen.Dick Durbin
Nov. 10, 2020 Letter to the Hon. William Barr, Attorney General for the Dept. of Justice - Durbin, Senators Call On DOJ To Stop Plans To Make Purdue Pharma A Public Benefit Corporation Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
Oct. 23, 2020 Tweet - "Purdue Pharma flooded America with painkillers and lies, profiting off the addiction epidemic they created. Too many lives have been lost for the Trump DOJ to let the billionaire Sackler family off the hook with a disgraceful civil settlement of $500 for each life lost." Sen.Dick Durbin
Oct. 22, 2020 Durbin Statement On Purdue Pharma DOJ Settlement Sen.Dick Durbin
Sept. 15, 2020 Letter to Mr. Stephen J. Ubl, President and CEO of PhRMA - Senators Demand Big Pharma Allow Low-income Patients to Access Lifesaving, Discounted 340B Drugs and Care Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
Sept. 9, 2020 Tweet - "Under our Constitution, defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty. But far too many are detained pending trial when they haven't been convicted of any crime & pose no threat to society. We can't end mass incarceration unless we end the overuse of pretrial detention." Sen.Dick Durbin
Sept. 9, 2020 Durbin, Lee, Coons Introduce Bipartisan Smarter Pretrial Detention For Drug Charges Act Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
Sept. 9, 2020 Sens. Coons, Durbin, Lee Introduce Bipartisan Smarter Pretrial Detention for Drug Charges Act Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
Aug. 31, 2020 Tweet - "The #COVID19 pandemic has only compounded the drug overdose crisis facing our nation. This #OverdoseAwarenessDay, we must continue to remove barriers to drug treatment, increase community support & stop Big Pharma from flooding the market with opioids." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 5, 2020 U.S. Senators Tina Smith, Merkley Unveil Plan to Prevent Pharmaceutical Companies from Price Gouging COVID-19 Vaccines, Treatments Rep.Jan Schakowsky, ...
Aug. 3, 2020 Tweet - "10 years ago today, @BarackObama signed into law my Fair Sentencing Act--the 1st bill since the beginning of the war on drugs to lower sentences for drug offenses. Since then, it has reduced sentences for thousands of prisoners by tens of thousands of years." Sen.Dick Durbin
Aug. 1, 2020 Tweet - "For years @DEAHQ allowed pharma to flood the market with painkillers. In 2018 @SenJohnKennedy & I changed the law to require DEA to be a gatekeeper & consider health impacts when setting opioid production quotas. As overdoses spike amid #COVID19, DEA must prevent this oversupply" Sen.Dick Durbin
July 30, 2020 Foster Unique Patient ID Amendment Adopted by House Rep.Bill Foster
July 30, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Timothy Shea, Acting Administrator for the Drug Enforcement Administration - Durbin, Kennedy Urge DEA To Use Authority To Reduce Excessive Opioid Production Quotas Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
July 23, 2020 LaHood, Ferguson Introduce the Bringing Back American Jobs Through Intellectual Property Repatriation Act Rep.Darin LaHood, ...
July 21, 2020 VIDEO: Though PhRMA Claims COVID-19 Vaccine Will Be Sold at No Profit, Drug Companies Tell Schakowsky a Different Story Rep.Jan Schakowsky
July 21, 2020 Durbin Introduces Bill To Combat Opioid Addiction As Nation Sees Rise In Overdose Deaths Amid COVID-19 Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
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