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 the December 2, 2015, Senate floor debate on H.R. 3762, the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act. For those who are keeping score, this is the seventeenth time that the Senate will be asked by the Republicans to vote to end Obamacare, and they have added to this to defund…
