U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) said on Tuesday that he has asked the U.S. Navy to name its next frigate the USS Quincy, in honor of the Illinois town. “By naming a U.S. frigate after Quincy, Illinois, the Navy would be honoring the service and support the community gives on behalf of the Navy and Navy Reserve,” Kirk wrote in a letter to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus.
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) on June 26 announced plans to expand the Abuelitas Program to Rockford, Joliet and southern Illinois.
Amendment would delay Canada's plan to store 7 million cubic feet of nuclear waste near lakes.
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) recently sent a joint letter to President Barack Obama, urging him to nominate a permanent inspector general to oversee the Department of Veterans Affairs and help him look into numerous ongoing investigations of misconduct, mistreatment of veterans and retaliation against whistleblowers at the agency.
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) on Tuesday expressed deep concern over the nuclear deal reached between the U.S. and the world community.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) on Thursday expressed his support for legislation aimed at cracking down on the daily flow of illegal guns on American streets.
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) applauded Senate passage on Thursday of the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA), bipartisan legislation aimed at reforming some of the perceived flaws of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law.
Request to help state's farmers comes after state experiences second wettest month on record.
U.S. Sens. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) along with U.S. Reps. Peter Roskam (R-IL) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) on Tuesday introduced legislation to protect seniors from identity theft while combating waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicare system.
U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) wrote to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on Thursday to express their support for Illinois’ application for additional federal funding to advance the deployment of biofuel infrastructure across the state.
U.S. Sens. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) joined the entire Illinois Congressional Delegation on Thursday in sending a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to issue a U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Disaster Declaration for Grundy and Iroquois counties.
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) visited Chicago’s health care technology incubator MATTER late last week to discuss the future of health care innovation with company executives, entrepreneurs and industry leaders.
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) issued a statement Monday in regard to International Overdose Day, a day which is recognized around the world to raise awareness of drug overdose and addiction.
U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) said this week that President Obama issued a U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Disaster Declaration for Grundy and Iroquois counties, as well as these neighboring counties: La Salle, Kendall, Will, Kankakee, Livingston, Ford, and Vermilion.
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) on Wednesday joined U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and former host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, to urge Congress to pass the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Reauthorization Act.