U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today cast his 17,000th vote as a member of the United States Congress. Those votes include his service in the U.S. House of Representatives (1983-1997) and the U.S. Senate (1997-2027). Of the more than 12,500 members who have ever served in Congress, Durbin’s vote tally puts him in the top 100 of all-time vote casters. And of Members of Congress who have served in the Senate, only six have ever cast more yea or nay votes in their congressional care… Continue Reading
- U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Co-Chair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus, today delivered a speech on the Senate floor reflecting on his recent congressional delegation trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia, and Kosovo in October with U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The trip was Durbin’s final congressional delegation trip as a United States Senator. Durbin previously traveled to the Balkans in 1… Continue Reading
U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned judicial nominees during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with two panels beginning with Todd Butler, nominated to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The second panel included Samuel D. Adkisson, nominated to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee; Philip Axt, nominated to be U.S. District Judge for the District of North Dakota; … Continue Reading
November 09, 2026