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

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

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 ...

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the No. 2 Senate Democrat, announced Wednesday he will not seek reelection, capping off a decades-long Senate career. “The decision of whether to run for reelection ...

Cory Booker, D-N.J., is the No. 4 Senate Democrat. Either of them could enter the contest. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is seen at the Capitol in Washington ...

Dick Durbin, the longtime second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, announced plans to retire at the end of next year, setting off a succession scramble to take his powerful leadership spot in the ...

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 ...

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 ...