WASHINGTON, April 22 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: [CHICAGO, IL] - U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today visited Green Era Campus in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood to highlight and discuss the $2,367,000 she secured through a Fiscal Year 2024 Congressionally Directed Spending Request for the South Side nonprofit. The funding Duckworth requested and successfully secured will help Green Era transform 9 acres of brownfields in the Auburn Gresham more PR

WASHINGTON, April 22 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: On the fifth birthday of the U.S. Senate Environmental Justice Caucus, which was founded on Earth Day in 2019, the Caucus's co-founders and co-chairs U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Tom Carper (D-DE)--Chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW)--and Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement commemorating this historic milestone and announced a new effort to sup more PR

WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Rep. Nikki Budzinski, D-Illinois, issued the following statement: * * * Today, Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) released the following statement on her votes to pass four bipartisan bills out of the House of Representatives that will combat the fentanyl crisis, sanction Iran and provide critical aid to our allies in Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. "For months, I've been calling on House GOP leaders to bring forward comprehensive legislation to support our allies abro more PR

WASHINGTON, April 19 -- Rep. Mary Miller, R-Illinois, issued the following statement: * * * Today, the House passed a combined rule to consider $95 billion in foreign aid, including $60 billion for the Ukraine proxy war, without forcing Biden to secure America's southern border. Representative Miller voted against the rule and made the following statement: "I voted no on advancing the Biden-Schumer foreign aid bill without first forcing them to secure our open border. Funding the Ukraine prox more PR

WASHINGTON, April 23 -- Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: EVANSTON - Today, U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the House Democratic Caucus Task Force on Aging and Families, released the following statement on the Biden-Harris Administration's final rule on national minimum nursing home staffing standards: "Every person in the United States deserves to age with dignity and access to quality long-term care. For years, I have c more PR