[Posted by litbrit.] “If you want to do business with the United States, you’ll do it on our terms when it comes to health and safety.” At hearings today, Senator Durbin speaks out on behalf of all who eat. He goes through the timeline of this massive recall, pointing out many of the systemic vulnerabilities, […]
Dick Durbin
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DURBIN DOES HEALTH….
DURBIN DOES HEALTH. I just got back from hearing Dick Durbin talk health care at The Center for American Progress (which has really stepped up the quality of its free sandwiches). His speech was something of a eulogy for Bill Frist‘s “health care week,” which saw the GOP try to score a few “doing something” […]
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The Durbin Distraction
So Bill Frist wants an apology from his Senate colleague, Dick Durbin of Illinois, for remarks that supposedly equated the U.S. detention facility for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with Nazi and Soviet death camps. It’s a particularly timely word that Frist invokes. So let’s consider the question in a larger context. On June […]
