Honorable Richard 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 Appropriations Committee, the Rules and Administration Committee, and the Judiciary Committee. The following is from the February 14, 2017, Senate floor debate on H.R. 2579, the Broader Options for Americans Act. This is immigration week in the U.S. Senate, and we are preparing today’s procedural moves to bring bills to the floor for consideration as early as today, perhaps tomorrow at the latest. It is an unusual time when the Senate…
