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Dick Durbin: “Three years ago, in a 2023 interview with a right-wing…”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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Durbin Questions Judicial Nominees During Judiciary Committee Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 03:39

But the Violence Against Women act has been here for decades and I think it has served America well. The quote I read was 32 years ago. Let's get recent. Three years ago, in a 2023 interview with a right-wing Hungarian news magazine... you said... the ideological bias of universities, the extensive harassment laws that regulate the workplace and the gradual spread of self-censorship are leading to a society in the United States that is intellectually more comfortable, duller, more deceitful and more timid. Timid was your word than in previous decades. So let's clarify your position. Do you oppose laws that protect against harassment in the workplace? Absolutely not. (03:39–04:14)

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Asserts that [the Other Speaker] claimed workplace harassment laws and other factors are making U.S. society more timid.

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