Honorable Dick Durbin
United States Senator, Illinois, Democrat
Senator Durbin was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996. He was a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1982 to 1996. He sits on the following committees: Appropriations, where he is the Ranking Minority Member on the Subcommittee on Defense; Foreign Relations; Judiciary, where he is the Ranking Minority Member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution; and Rules and Administration. The following is from the February 5, 2015, Senate floor debate on H.R. 240, making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015. Yesterday we were informed of another…
