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U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin answers questions after the ribbon cutting for the Reas Bridge Road project in Decatur on Monday, Oct. 26.
Photos: U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois
Schumer and Durbin, 2024
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, speaks with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., before President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Thursday, March 7, 2024, in Washington.
Sen. Dick Durbin, 2023
Committee chairman Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., questions during a Senate Judiciary Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Prisons hearing on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023, in Washington.
Sen. Dick Durbin, 2023
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speaks during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on President Biden's supplemental funding request for Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, in Washington.
Durbin in Bloomington
From left, EDP Renewables CEO Sandhya Ganapathy, Bloomington Mayor Mboka Mwilambwe and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin cut the ribbon during a ribbon cutting for a new solar and wind training facility on Aug. 10, 2023, at EDP Renewables, 1616 General Electric Road, Unit #1, Bloomington.
Sen. Dick Durbin
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., asks questions at a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense hearing on May 11, 2023, in Washington, D.C.
Jackson and Durbin
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, left, meets with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., right, on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 2, 2022.
File photo - Dick Durbin
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Nov. 10, 2020, in Washington.
Dick Durbin, Lincoln Memorial Hospital
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, speaks on Monday, May 22, 2023, at Lincoln Memorial Hospital to introduce the “Roadmap to Grow Illinois’ Rural Health Workforce.”
Durbin, Clinton, 2002
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin hands the podium over to former president Bill Clinton, left, at a fundraiser for Durbin and the Illinois Democratic Party in Chicago, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2002.
Durbin, 2003
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speaks during the annual meeting of the Illinois Farm Bureau, Monday, Dec. 8, 2003, in Chicago.
Durbin, Obama, 2004
Illinois Democratic Senate candidate Barack Obama, shakes hands with former opponent Maria Pappas as Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., center, applauds at a unity breakfast Wednesday March 17, 2004 in Chicago. Obama, a former civil rights lawyer, won the state primary Tuesday night, crushing six opponents and setting up a major effort by the party to capture a Republican seat and win control of the Senate.
Durbin, Obama, 2004
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., left, is joined at a news conference by Sen.-elect Barack Obama in Chicago on Friday, Nov. 5, 2004, where Durbin announced that he will run for Democratic whip in the new Senate and said he already has the votes to get the job.
Durbin, Blagojevich, 2005
Illinois' Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, center, with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., left, former Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson, second left, and former Commerce Secretary William Daley, right, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, April 27, 2005, in Washington.
Durbin, 2006
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speaks to students at Northwestern University's School of Law, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006, in Chicago.
Dick Durbin, 2010
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill, addresses the crowd during a Moving America Forward rally for Democratic candidates Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010 in Chicago.
Sonia Sotomayor, Dick Durbin, 2011
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, left, takes photos of Cubs' players as U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., looks on before an baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Chicago Cubs in Chicago on Saturday, June 18, 2011.
Durbin, Kerry, 2004
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, right, shares a laugh with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-III., after Kerry's speech to the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Citizenship Fund Conference on Tuesday, June 29, 2004, in Chicago.
Obama, Durbin, 2004
U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama, a state senator from Illinois, shakes the hand of Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., after Durbin introduced him to give the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, July 27, 2004, in Boston.
Obama, Durbin, 2004
U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama, a state senator from Illinois, second from right, is joined by his wife, Michelle, left, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., second from left, and Durbin's wife, Loretta, after Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, July 27, 2004, in Boston.
Durbin, 2004
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., stands along the Chicago River Monday, Nov. 22, 2004, in downtown Chicago. In his new post as Democratic Senate whip, Durbin has been been elevated to the upper levels of Washington influence. Durbin, 59, was unopposed in his bid for the party's second-ranking position in the Senate.
Obama, Durbin, Daley, 2005
Senators Barack Obama D-Ill., from left, Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley discuss the progress of the O'Hare International Airport Modernization Program in Washington, Wednesday, March 2, 2005.
Richard M. Daley, Dick Durbin, 2007
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, left, and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill, wave as they march Saturday, March 17, 2007, during the 52nd Annual Chicago St. Patrick's Day Parade.
Dick Durbin, Amy Klobuchar
U.S. Senators Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., visit with children, Cooper Mikolajczak, left, Sancia McCullar, center, and Sedona Kessler, right, at Bright Horizons Day Care Monday, Aug. 27, 2007 in Chicago before announcing that he wants the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to test toys on store shelves to see if they're safe. Durbin said the Maryland-based commission could start with children's jewelry. He says, if jewelry is found to have an unsafe amount of lead, the agency should detain and inspect all children's jewelry coming into the United States. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
Durbin, Kirk, 2013
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., second from left, who participated in a clinical walking trial at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago following a massive stroke in January 2012, acknowledges well-wishers. Walking with Kirk up the Capitol steps are Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, center, and Dick Durbin, D-Ill. right, walk with him up the Capitol building steps in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Kirk hopes his recovery will serve as an inspiration to the millions of Americans recovering from stroke.
Obama, 2008
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speaks at the Democratic National Convention at Invesco Field in Denver, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008.
Quinn, Durbin, 1996
Pat Quinn, left, speaks while Rep. Dick Durbin, his opponent in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat held by the retiring Paul Simon, takes notes during their debate Wednesday night, March 13, 1996, in Chicago.
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In this Jan. 29, 2010 file photo, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speaks during a news conference in Chicago. Durbin has been subpoenaed to testify at the corruption trial of ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich that begins June 3, 2010.
Dick Durbin
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., waits for a hearing on drone use to begin, Tuesday, April 23, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Senate Democrats and Republicans challenged the Obama administration to explicitly spell out its justification for using drones for targeted killings amid growing concerns about unchecked powers of the presidency and Americans' civil liberties.(AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Barack Obama, Malia Obama, Dick Durbin, Mike Quigley, 2016
President Barack Obama walks off Air Force One with daughter Malia, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., back right, and Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., back left, after arriving at O'Hare International Airport Thursday, April 7, 2016, in Chicago.
Bill Clinton, Pat Quinn, Dick Durbin, 2014
Former President Bill Clinton appears with U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, left, and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn as they address workers, labor leaders and business leaders at Wheatland Tube Co., Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014, in Chicago.
Barack Obama, Richard Durbin, 2013
President Barack Obama, followed by Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., waves they walk to the Marine One helicopter, upon their arrival at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Friday, March 15, 2013, before going to Argonne National Laboratory.
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Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, center, walks with a member of his team in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday Jan. 19, 2012. Durbin is in Haiti to meet with government officials, aid workers and locals to monitor U.S. and international efforts to rebuild after the country was devastated by an earthquake in 2010. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Dick Durbin, 2012
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, talks to the Associated Press by phone after learning that U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill. had suffered a stroke, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, in Chicago.
Barack Obama, Dick Durbin, 2012
President Barack Obama waves while U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., looks on after arriving at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Friday, March 16, 2012.
Barack Obama, Richard Durbin, 2012
President Barack Obama waves as he and Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill. walk off Air Force One after arriving at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Friday, March 16, 2012.
Rahm Emanuel, Dick Durbin, 2014
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, left, talks with Sen. Dick Durbin during a Chinese New Year celebration in Chicago, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014.
Dick Durbin
Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin delivers his victory speech at his election night event on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in Chicago. Durbin declared victory over challenger Republican State Sen. Jim Oberweis. (AP Photo/Andrew A. Nelles)
Dick Durbin
Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin greets supporters after giving his victory speech at his election night event on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in Chicago. Durbin declared victory over challenger Republican State Sen. Jim Oberweis. (AP Photo/Andrew A. Nelles)
Dick Durbin, 2014
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., signals that he has no time for reporters as he heads to the Senate chamber for a vote on the Keystone XL oil pipeline which was rejected on a 59-41 vote at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014.
Dick Durbin, 2013
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speaks during a Jan. 24, 2013 news conference with a coalition of members of Congress, mayors, law enforcement officers, gun safety organizations and other groups on Capitol Hill in Washington to introduce legislation on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition feeding devices.
Barack Obama, Pat Quinn, Dick Durbin
President Barack Obama, center, stands with Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, left, and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, during a rally for Quinn at Chicago State University on Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014.
Dick Durbin, 2013
Sen. Dick Durvin, D-Ill., talks on the phone while waiting for President Barack Obama at Hyde Park Academy on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in Chicago, Ill. Obama is traveling to promote the economic and educational plan he laid out in his State of the Union address.
Dick Durbin, Mark Kirk, 2013
In this Nov. 25, 2013 photo, U.S. Senators Dick Durbin, D-Ill., left, and Mark Kirk, R-Ill., laughing together before Zachary T. Fardon, takes a ceremonial oath as United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago. Both men say they’ve always had an amicable relationship. But their friendship truly solidified after Kirk suffered a stroke last year and they began a series of what the junior senator calls “heart-to-hearts” about how they could do their jobs better by working together.
Dick Durbin
Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin waits backstage before delivering his victory speech at his election night event on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in Chicago. Durbin declared victory over challenger Republican State Sen. Jim Oberweis.
Durbin, 2016
Illinois U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin participates in a political rally during Democrats Day at the Illinois State Fair Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016, in Springfield.
Durbin, Graham, 2017
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., left, with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, to discuss their bipartisan Dream Act, which would allow young immigrants who grew up in the United States to earn lawful permanent residence and eventually American citizenship.
Durbin, Graham, 2017
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., left, with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, to discuss their bipartisan Dream Act, which would allow young immigrants who grew up in the United States to earn lawful permanent residence and eventually American citizenship.
Durbin, Graham, 2017
In this Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, file photo, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speak during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, to discuss their bipartisan Dream Act.
Durbin, Pelosi, 2018
As a bitterly-divided Congress hurtles toward a government shutdown, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., left, and Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., walk to a closed-door meeting with House Democrats on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday, Jan. 19, 2018.
Durbin, 2018
Sen. Dick Durbin D-Ill. rally in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, now also known as the Dream Act, during a rally outside of the Capitol on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018, the second day of a federal shutdown.
Durbin, 2018
Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat and his party's chief negotiator in immigration talks, walks to the chamber on Feb. 7, 2018, after a spending deal was reached but without a plan to protect immigrants left vulnerable with the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Durbin, 2018
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin speaks with local media in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, April 7, 2018. Durbin, a Democrat from Illinios, said that he urged Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to uphold democratic processes ahead of the country's upcoming presidential election.
Durbin, Whitehouse, 2018
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., right, both members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, listen as President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, testifies on the third day of his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018.
Durbin, Whitehouse, 2018
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., right, both members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, listen as President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, testifies on the third day of his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018.
Durbin, 2019
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks to reporters after meeting with President Donald Trump about border security in the Situation Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, in Washington. From left, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Md., Pelosi, and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
Durbin, Harris, 2019
Senate Judiciary Committee members Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., left, and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., talk as Attorney General nominee William Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019.
Durbin, 2020
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., pays respects as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lies in repose under the Portico at the top of the front steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Washington.
Durbin, 2020
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., pays respects as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lies in repose under the Portico at the top of the front steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Washington.
Durbin, 2020
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speaks during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Durbin, Feinstein, 2020
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., joined at left by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., joins Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee at a news conference after boycotting the vote by the Republican-led panel to advance the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to sit on the Supreme Court, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, in Washington.
Durbin, 2021
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speaks during a news conference following the Senate policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 23, 2021.
Harris, Durbin, 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during visit to a COVID-19 vaccination site Tuesday, April 6, 2021, in Chicago, as Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., listens, back left. The site is a partnership between the City of Chicago and the Chicago Federation of Labor.
Durbin, 2021
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-I.L., listens to the testimony of federal judicial nominees during a Senate Judiciary Hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, July 14, 2021.
Durbin, 2022
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., with ranking member Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, left, and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, swears in Assistant Attorney General for National Security Division Matthew Olsen and Executive Assistant Director, National Security Branch of the FBI Jill Sanborn during the committee hearing to examine the domestic terrorism threat one year after January 6, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in Washington.
Biden, Durbin, 2022
President Joe Biden speaks as he and Vice President Kamala Harris, not pictured, meet with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., right, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the ranking member, not pictured, to discuss the upcoming Supreme Court vacancy in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, in Washington.
Durbin, Jackson, 2022
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, left, meets Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., right, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 2, 2022.
Durbin, Jackson, 2022
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, left, meets with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., right, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 2, 2022.
Durbin, 2022
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 3, 2022, in the wake of reports that the Supreme Court could overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case.
Durbin, 2022, Capitol
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, center, joined by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., far right, and other Democrats, express their dismay on May 3, 2022, at a news report that suggests the Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide, at the Capitol in Washington.
Durbin, 2022
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., waves to supporters during a rally in Joliet, Ill., on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022, ahead of the midterm elections.
Graham, Durbin, 2023
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., left, talks with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., right, before a Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Durbin, Graham, 2023
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined at left by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the ranking member, lead a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 18, 2023.
Durbin, Graham, 2023
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined at left by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the ranking member, lead a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 18, 2023.
Durbin, Klobuchar, 2023
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., chair of the Senate Rules Committee, left, speaks with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., right, as they leave a weekly closed-door strategy session at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, May 2, 2023.
Durbin, 2023, Senate Appropriations
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speaks during a Nov. 8, 2023 hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on President Biden's supplemental funding request for Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Durbin, 2023, with Ukraine defense minister
Ukraine’s Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, left, and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., stand for a group photo before a meeting in Durbin's office on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in Washington.
Durbin, 2024, White House lawn
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., left, attends a Congressional picnic on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, June 4, 2024.
Durbin, 2024 DNC
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speaks during the Democratic National Convention Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago.
Durbin, 2024, Capitol
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is surrounded by reporters asking about his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024.
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