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
Motion to Proceed to Executive Session to Consider the Nomination of Tulsi Gabbard	Nay	Feb 6, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Proceed to Legislative Session	Nay	Feb 6, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Table the Motion to Reconsider Re: Vought Nomination	Nay	Feb 6, 2025	Motion to Table Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Russell Vought, of Virginia, to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Nay	Feb 6, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Russell Vought to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Nay	Feb 5, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Eric Turner, of Texas, to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Nay	Feb 5, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Eric Turner to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Nay	Feb 4, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Pamela Bondi, of Florida, to be Attorney General	Nay	Feb 4, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Douglas Collins, of Georgia, to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Yea	Feb 4, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Pamela Bondi to be Attorney General	Nay	Feb 3, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Christopher Wright, of Colorado, to be Secretary of Energy	Nay	Feb 3, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Proceed to Executive Session to Consider the Nomination of Russell Vought	Nay	Feb 3, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Douglas Collins, of Georgia, to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Yea	Jan 30, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Christopher Wright to be Secretary of Energy	Nay	Jan 30, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Douglas Burgum, of N.D., to be Secretary of the Interior	Yea	Jan 30, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Douglas Burgum to be Secretary of the Interior	Nay	Jan 29, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Lee Zeldin, of N.Y., to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency	Nay	Jan 29, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Lee Zeldin to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency	Nay	Jan 29, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 23 — Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act	Nay	Jan 28, 2025	Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Sean Duffy, of WI, to be Secretary of Transportation	Nay	Jan 28, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Sean Duffy to be Secretary of Transportation	Yea	Jan 27, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Scott Bessent, of S.C., to be Secretary of the Treasury	Nay	Jan 27, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Scott Bessent to be Secretary of the Treasury	Not voting	Jan 25, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Kristi Noem, of South Dakota, to be Secretary of Homeland Security	Nay	Jan 25, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Kristi Noem to be Secretary of Homeland Security	Nay	Jan 24, 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 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.