Honorable Dick Durbin
United States Senator, Illinois, Democrat
Senator Durbin was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1982 to 1996. He sits on the following committees: Appropriations, Foreign Relations, Judiciary, and Rules and Administration. He is the Senate Minority Whip. The following is from an August 4, 2014, letter to Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the FDA’s proposed rule on “Deeming Tobacco Products to be Subject to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.” The letter was signed by nine other Democratic senators and three Democratic representatives. On April 25,…
