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 Appropriations Committee, the Judiciary Committee, and the Rules Committee. He also serves as the Assistant Minority Leader. The following is from a March 2, 2016, Senate floor statement on filling the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy. A group of historians and scholars sent a letter to President Obama about the Supreme Court vacancy occasioned by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. The signers of the letter include Robert Dallek, Doris Kearns Goodwin,…
