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September 12, 2024Duckworth, Clark Reintroduce Bill to Expand Child Care on College Campuses, Help Parenting Students Graduate
U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA-05) today reintroduced a bill to help increase access to on-campus child care for the more than 4 million parenting students currently enrolled in postsecondary education programs. Despite the growing number of parenting students in postsecondary education, access to affordable on-campus child care services has dwindled since 2004. The Child Care Access Means Parents in Schools (CCAMPIS) Reauthorization Act … Continue Reading
September 12, 2024Duckworth, Durbin Announce More Than $37 Million for Illinois Airport Improvements
U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced a total of $37,031,074 in federal funding for infrastructure improvements at airports across Illinois. This funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration will go toward reinforcing the structural integrity of taxiways, expanding existing terminal buildings to accommodate more passengers and aircraft operations and installing various modernization measures, i… Continue Reading
September 11, 2024Duckworth, Durbin Join Klobuchar, Colleagues to Urge DOJ, FTC to investigate Generative AI Products for Potential Antitrust Violations
U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL)—Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee—joined U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Tina Smith (D-MN) in sending a letter to Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan to highlight the risks that new generative artificial intelligence (AI) features pose to compe… Continue Reading
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August 02, 2024Your turn: It's time to make school buses safer for our children
Parents of school-age children understand that weekday mornings are a ritual. We wake up our kids, pack their lunches, bundle them into their coats, keeping our fingers crossed we didn’t forget anything while rushing them to the bus stop. We wave goodbye as they wait for their school bus, hoping their ride is uneventful. As a mother, the safety and security of my girls is always at the top of my mind—when they play on the jungle gym at the park, when they swim at the pool and, yes, when they ri… Continue Reading
July 15, 2024$21 million in construction projects coming to Edwardsville
Edwardsville, IL - Over $21 million in construction projects are coming to Edwardsville thanks to a federal grant announced by union-backed leaders in late June. U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski and U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth announced that Edwardsville will receive a $21.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the Goshen Road and Liberty Trail multi-modal transportation improvement project. Edwardsville Mayor Art Risavy said it was a “significant” federal grant… Continue Reading
June 18, 2024All Troops Could Have IVF Covered by Military Health Care Under Proposal in Must-Pass Defense Bill
Service members and dependents would be able to get fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization covered by military health care in any circumstance, under an amendment added to the Senate's version of the annual must-pass defense policy bill. Under the amendment sponsored by Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., Tricare Prime and Tricare Select would be required to cover a range of fertility treatments, including IVF, regardless of the beneficiary's medical diagnosis, sex, sex characteristics, … Continue Reading
