Richard J. Durbin

Issue areas

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

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

Offices & terms

Office	Party	From	To	Source
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

Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Ranking Member unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Crime and Counterterrorism — Ranking Member unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry — Commodities, Derivatives, Risk Management, and Trade unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry — Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, and Food Safety unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Department of Defense unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Energy and Water Development unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Financial Services and General Government unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

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)

Vote	Position	Date	Result	Source
Confirmation: Daniel Driscoll, of North Carolina, to be Secretary of the Army	Yea	Feb 25, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Jamieson Greer to be United States Trade Representative	Nay	Feb 24, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Daniel Driscoll to be Secretary of the Army	Yea	Feb 24, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SCONRES 7 — An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting…	Nay	Feb 21, 2025	Concurrent Resolution Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Merkley Amdt. No. 1207	Yea	Feb 21, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Lee Amdt. No. 922	Nay	Feb 21, 2025	Amendment Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Lujan Amdt. No. 957	Yea	Feb 21, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Blumenthal Amdt. No. 659	Yea	Feb 21, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Duckworth Amdt. No. 971	Yea	Feb 21, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Lujan Amdt. No. 699	Yea	Feb 21, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Shaheen Amdt. No. 436	Yea	Feb 21, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Van Hollen Amdt. No. 233	Yea	Feb 21, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Slotkin Amdt. No. 664	Yea	Feb 21, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Paul Amdt No. 999	Nay	Feb 21, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Reed Amdt. No. 299	Yea	Feb 21, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Reed Amdt. No. 172	Yea	Feb 21, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Baldwin Amdt. No. 276	Yea	Feb 20, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Wyden Amdt. No. 1156	Yea	Feb 20, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Ossoff Amdt. No. 407	Yea	Feb 20, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Schumer Amdt. No. 776	Yea	Feb 20, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Sullivan Amdt. No. 1029	Nay	Feb 20, 2025	Amendment Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Schiff Amdt. No. 316	Yea	Feb 20, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Bennet Amdt. No. 540	Yea	Feb 20, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Hickenlooper Amdt. No. 925	Yea	Feb 20, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Murray Amdt. No. 878	Yea	Feb 20, 2025	Amendment Rejected	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 type	Contributions	Total	Share
Party	9	$505,500	32%
Big donor	114	$337,879	21%
Corporate PAC	2	$24,130	2%
Unclassified	875	$712,018	45%

Largest contributions

Amount	Donor	To committee	Type	Date	Source
$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.