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U.S. Senator · Illinois
Richard J. Durbin
DemocratState D+6119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score33#74 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Richard J. Durbin’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office711 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s state, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Republicans · 1 signal
- StrongBacks 14 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 14 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: S. 494, S. 736, S. 761, S. 825, S. 856 and 9 more.
Keeps them with Democrats · 1 signal
- MediumVotes with Senate DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.338 (party median -0.356; rank 18 of 47 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 0 (avg 0); LCV 97 (avg 96).
Bill-specific inputsVotes on similar past bills and committee seats vary by bill, so they appear in the swing-v3 scores below rather than here.
Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- January 3, 2021 – January 3, 2027
- Senate class
- Class 2
- Seniority
- Senior senator
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 43.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Senate Committee on the JudiciaryRanking MemberMinority · 1st in seniority
- Subcommittee on Crime and CounterterrorismRanking Member
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and ForestryMinority · 4th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Commodities, Derivatives, Risk Management, and Trade
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Durbin← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.338 is 0.02 to the right of the Senate Democratic median (-0.356).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the Senate Democratic average- 119th Congress0Senate Democratic average: 0 (n=47)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 1–50 of 845 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 4Rescissions Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the House | 58
| Middle |
| H.R. 7744Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026 |