Dick Durbin
Richard "Dick" Durbin is the senior senator from Illinois, elected to his third six-year term in 2008. Since 2005 he has served as the Senate's Democratic Whip, becoming the Assistant Majority Leader in 2007. Durbin, a former meatpacking plant worker, earned his law degree from Georgetown University in 1969. During his legal career he worked as counsel to the Illinois Senate Judiciary Committee and to Paul M. Simon, then-state Lieutenant Governor. Simon went on to the U.S. Senate; when he retired in 1996, Durbin ran a successful race for his seat. Durbin is a member of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, where he chairs the Financial Services and General Government subcommittee, and also holds seats on the Foreign Relations, Judiciary and Rules Committees. In 1989, after passing legislation Durbin introduced, Congress outlawed cigarette smoking on domestic airlines. Durbin is also one of the Senate's strongest backers of the DREAM Act, a bipartisan proposal that would extend residency privileges to undocumented students who meet a series of educational and personal criteria. In the wake of the world financial crisis President Barack Obama asked Congress to establish a bipartisan group that would negotiate domestic debt-reduction solutions. Durbin was one of three Democrats in this so-called Gang of Six, and was involved in talks leading up to the debt ceiling compromise reached in August 2011.
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