Honorable Richard J. 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 a statement on the Development, Relief, and Education of Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, delivered on the Senate floor on August 4, 2010. I rise to speak about S. 729, known as the DREAM Act. This is bipartisan…
