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 chairs the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government; Judiciary, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law; and Rules and Administration. The following is from the July 27, 2010, Senate floor debate on S. 3628, the Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections [DISCLOSE] Act. I thank the senator from New York [Charles Schumer (D)] for his leadership on…
