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Richard J. Durbin

U.S. Senator (Class 2), IL

Democratic Illinois since Jan 3, 2021

Office record: unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

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Issue areas

Derived from issue-tagged bills they sponsored and stated positions — each links to the underlying record. AI-derived tags

Civil Rights & Liberties 3Government Operations & Budget 3Banking & Finance 2Criminal Justice & Policing 2Foreign Policy & Trade 2Education 1Environment & Energy 1Gun Policy 1Healthcare 1Housing 1

Offices & terms

OfficePartyFromToSource
U.S. Senator (Class 2), IL current
Illinois
 Democratic Jan 3, 2021 Jan 3, 2027 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 2), IL
Illinois
 Democratic Jan 6, 2015 Jan 3, 2021 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 2), IL
Illinois
 Democratic Jan 6, 2009 Jan 3, 2015 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 2), IL
Illinois
 Democratic Jan 7, 2003 Jan 3, 2009 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 2), IL
Illinois
 Democratic Jan 7, 1997 Jan 3, 2003 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, IL-20
Illinois
 Democratic Jan 4, 1995 Jan 3, 1997 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, IL-20
Illinois
 Democratic Jan 5, 1993 Jan 3, 1995 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, IL-20
Illinois
 Democratic Jan 3, 1991 Jan 3, 1993 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, IL-20
Illinois
 Democratic Jan 3, 1989 Jan 3, 1991 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, IL-20
Illinois
 Democratic Jan 6, 1987 Jan 3, 1989 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, IL-20
Illinois
 Democratic Jan 3, 1985 Jan 3, 1987 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, IL-20
Illinois
 Democratic Jan 3, 1983 Jan 3, 1985 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

Committee assignments

Ideology — academic context, not a GovTally claim

DW-NOMINATE coordinates (Congress 119): economic dim. -0.339, social dim. -0.313. Voteview DW-NOMINATE Voteview-academic

Roll-call votes (840 recorded)

VotePositionDateResultSource
SRES 412 — An executive resolution authorizing the en bloc consideration in Executive Session of certain nominations on the Executive Calendar. Nay Oct 1, 2025 Cloture Motion Agreed to U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Hung Cao, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of the Navy Nay Oct 1, 2025 Nomination Confirmed U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Hung Cao to be Under Secretary of the Navy Nay Oct 1, 2025 Cloture Motion Agreed to U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 5371 — Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026 Nay Oct 1, 2025 Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 2882 — Continuing Appropriations and Extensions and Other Matters Act, 2026 Yea Oct 1, 2025 Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 5371 — Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026 Nay Sep 30, 2025 Bill Defeated U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 2882 — Continuing Appropriations and Extensions and Other Matters Act, 2026 Yea Sep 30, 2025 Bill Defeated U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 2806 — Eliminate Shutdowns Act Nay Sep 29, 2025 Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Michael G. Waltz, of Florida, to be Representative of the United States of America to the General Assembly of the United… Nay Sep 29, 2025 Nomination Confirmed U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Michael G. Waltz to be Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of… Nay Sep 29, 2025 Cloture Motion Agreed to U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Michael G. Waltz, of Florida, to be the Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations Not voting Sep 19, 2025 Nomination Confirmed U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Michael G. Waltz to be Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations Nay Sep 19, 2025 Cloture Motion Agreed to U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 5371 — Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026 Nay Sep 19, 2025 Bill Defeated U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 2882 — Continuing Appropriations and Extensions and Other Matters Act, 2026 Yea Sep 19, 2025 Bill Defeated U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Executive Calendar Nos: 89, 105, 107, 121, 122, 123, 124, 132, 133, 135, 136, 137, 139, 141, 142, 152, 153, 154, 156, 157… Nay Sep 18, 2025 Nomination Confirmed U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Executive Calendar Nos: 89, 105, 107, 121, 122, 123, 124, 132, 133, 135, 136, 137, 139, 141, 142, 152, 153, 154… Nay Sep 17, 2025 Cloture Motion Agreed to U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Shall the Decision of the Chair stand as the Judgment of the Senate? Yea Sep 17, 2025 Decision of Chair Not Sustained U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Reconsider the Vote by which the Motion to Invoke Cloture on Executive Calendar Nos. en bloc (Roll Call Vote No. 522) was not… Nay Sep 17, 2025 Motion to Reconsider Agreed to U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Executive Calendar Nos: 89, 105, 107, 121, 122, 123, 124, 132, 133, 135, 136, 137, 139, 141, 142, 152, 153, 154… Nay Sep 17, 2025 Cloture Motion Rejected U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SCONRES 22 — A concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2026 and setting forth the… Nay Sep 16, 2025 Motion to Proceed Rejected U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 60 — A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the… Yea Sep 16, 2025 Motion to Proceed Rejected U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Stephen Miran, of New York, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Nay Sep 15, 2025 Nomination Confirmed U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Stephen Miran to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Nay Sep 15, 2025 Cloture Motion Agreed to U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SRES 377 — An executive resolution authorizing the en bloc consideration in Executive Session of certain nominations on the Executive Calendar. Nay Sep 15, 2025 Resolution Agreed to U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SRES 377 — An executive resolution authorizing the en bloc consideration in Executive Session of certain nominations on the Executive Calendar. Nay Sep 11, 2025 Cloture Motion Agreed to U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD

Campaign funding

1,000 recorded contributions totalling $1,579,527. Amounts and dates come straight from FEC filings; funding-type labels are software-classified from those filings classified — 125 of 1000 classified so far.

Funding typeContributionsTotalShare
Party 9 $505,500 32%
Big donor 114 $337,879 21%
Corporate PAC 2 $24,130 2%
Unclassified 875 $712,018 45%

Largest contributions

AmountDonorTo committeeTypeDateSource
$114,000 DURBIN VICTORY FUND FRIENDS OF DICK DURBIN COMMITTEE Party Aug 2, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$89,000 DURBIN VICTORY FUND FRIENDS OF DICK DURBIN COMMITTEE Party Sep 27, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$88,000 DURBIN VICTORY FUND FRIENDS OF DICK DURBIN COMMITTEE Party Apr 26, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$70,000 DURBIN VICTORY FUND FRIENDS OF DICK DURBIN COMMITTEE Party Mar 22, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$55,000 DURBIN VICTORY FUND FRIENDS OF DICK DURBIN COMMITTEE Party Oct 18, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$41,000 DURBIN VICTORY FUND FRIENDS OF DICK DURBIN COMMITTEE Party Jun 5, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$29,000 DURBIN VICTORY FUND FRIENDS OF DICK DURBIN COMMITTEE Party Mar 29, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$19,000 ILLINOIS NEVADA 2023 FUND FRIENDS OF DICK DURBIN COMMITTEE Corporate PAC Sep 27, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$14,000 DURBIN VICTORY FUND FRIENDS OF DICK DURBIN COMMITTEE Party Jun 4, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,500 DURBIN VICTORY FUND FRIENDS OF DICK DURBIN COMMITTEE Party Jun 25, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,130 ILLINOIS NEVADA 2023 FUND FRIENDS OF DICK DURBIN COMMITTEE Corporate PAC Nov 8, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,000 APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC. PAC FRIENDS OF DICK DURBIN COMMITTEE unclassified Apr 12, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD
$5,000 CARPENTERS LEGISLATIVE IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE FRIENDS OF DICK DURBIN COMMITTEE unclassified May 12, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD
$5,000 WAY TO LEAD PAC FRIENDS OF DICK DURBIN COMMITTEE unclassified Sep 6, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD
$5,000 KELLANOVA PAC FRIENDS OF DICK DURBIN COMMITTEE unclassified Dec 12, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD

Largest by amount; not the full set. FEC contributor data may not be used for commercial solicitation.

Sponsored legislation (9 as lead sponsor)

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