Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Monday said he plans to publicly stay out of any potential fight to replace him ...

Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin is retiring at the end of next year after more than four decades in Washington in a move that ...

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, one of the highest ranking Democrats on Capitol Hill, will not seek reelection next year, capping a more than four decade-long tenure in Congress. "The decision of ...

“The decision of whether to run for re-election has not been easy. I truly love the job of being a United States Senator. But in my heart, I know it’s time to pass the torch,” he said in a video ...

Barack Obama says he wouldn't have been a U.S. senator or president without the support of Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, who has ...

Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said Wednesday that he won’t run for reelection next year, opening up the No. 2 slot in Senate Democratic leadership for the first time in two decades. Durbin ...

Durbin has been the No. 2 Senate Democrat since 2005. From that post, he helped shape the career of an up-and-comer from Illinois, Barack Obama, who was only four years into his first term in the ...

(AP) — Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said Wednesday ... a difficult path to reclaiming a majority in the Senate. The decision by Durbin, who is in his fifth Senate term and is the ...