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Duckworth, Durbin Announce More Then $150 Million to Improve Housing Across Local Communities

U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced $150,346,316 through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Capital Fund Program, which offers annual funding to public housing authorities to build, renovate, and modernize the public housing in their communities. “Access to safe and dependable public housing is critically important for families all across Illinois,” Duckworth said. “Along with Senator Durbin, I’m proud to… Continue Reading

Duckworth Touts Support for Local Business with Springfield Chamber of Commerce

U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today met with Springfield Mayor Misty Buscher and more than a dozen members of the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce to underscore her commitment to helping create good-paying local jobs and support entrepreneurs. The Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce serves as a hub for businesses in the Springfield area. Their mission is to support local enterprises, foster economic growth and create meaningful connections within the community. Photos from today… Continue Reading

Duckworth, Durbin Release Statement on Airlines' Approval of O'Hare Terminal Area Project

U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)—a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (CST) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Safety, Operations and Innovation—and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today released the following statement regarding United and American Airlines’ approval of the City of Chicago’s revised offer to complete the Chicago O’Hare International Airport Terminal Area Project (TAP): “After months of volleying counter-offers and… Continue Reading

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Senator Tammy Duckworth Is Demanding Rights for Disabled People

ELLE - Senator Tammy Duckworth still hasn’t seen Barbie. Last summer, she made headlines when she told Politico that a broken elevator prevented her and other wheelchair users from accessing a movie theater, ruining a planned outing with her daughters. That kind of thing happens to her a lot. When she’s home in Chicago, the Democratic senator from Illinois feels like she can’t even ride the L train, because she doesn’t know whether the station she’s traveling to is up-to-date on posting its acce… Continue Reading

Why IVF looks different in the US than in the rest of the world

Earlier this month the Atlantic ran an opinion piece describing the American fertility industry as “strangely undeveloped” from a regulatory perspective. The two authors — a conservative political analyst and an anti-abortion bioethicist — claimed the landscape for assisted reproductive technology has left “parents, children, clinics and practitioners” without basic protections and safety guardrails. Their ominous arguments are part of a much older debate over whether the US fertility industry … Continue Reading

Sen. Duckworth pushes for protection of IVF treatments

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Illinois U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-8th) is urging federal lawmakers to pass bipartisan legislation to protect in-vitro fertilization treatment. "It comes about a month after an Alabama Supreme Court ruling briefly halted some procedures in the state.  "When Alabama defined a fertilized egg to be a person, and their code defines murder as intentionally causing the death of a person, the intentional disposal of an embryo, even a non-viable one that could cause a miscarriag… Continue Reading

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