Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Springfield, is the 47th U.S. Senator from the State of Illinois and the first Illinois senator to serve on the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee in more than a quarter of a century. He is the state’s senior senator and convenor of the bipartisan Illinois delegation. Elected to the U.S. Senate on November 5, 1996 and re-elected in 2002, Durbin fills the seat left vacant by the retirement of his long-time friend and mentor, U.S. Senator Paul Simon.

In 2001, Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) appointed Durbin to the Senate’s leadership team, where he today serves as Assistant Democratic Floor Leader. In 2000, Durbin served as Co-Chairman of the Democratic Platform Committee and also was Co-Chairman of the Atlantic Conference sponsored by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. He is a founding member of the Senate Global AIDS Caucus.

Contact information:
www.senate.gov/~durbin/
312-353-4952
Kluczynski Federal Building
230 S. Dearborn Street, #3892 • Chicago, IL 60604
217-492-4062
525 S. Eighth Street • P.O. Box 790 • Springfield, IL 62705
618-998-8812
Mercantile Bank Building
701 Court Street • Marion, IL 62959
202-224-2152
364 Russell Senate Building • Washington D.C., 20510