Dick Durbin

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), second from left, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), left, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (R-Ill.), third from left, and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash) fourth from left, speak at a press conference on the ongoing government shutdown at the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, October 2, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., appearing with Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, left, speaks at a news conference in Chicago, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, in his push to pass two new gun laws, including one he co-sponsored that would ban assault weapons. (AP Photo/Chicago Sun-Times, Brian Jackson)

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**FILE** Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin are joined by state and local officials March 22, 2011, as they announce the next phase of high-speed rail construction during a news conference at an Amtrak maintenance building in Chicago. (Associated Press)

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Democratic Whip Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., left, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell speak during a media availability after their meeting to discuss bounty programs, on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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From left, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speak to the media after the Senate passed the debt ceiling plan, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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President Obama sits with House Speaker John Boehner (left), Ohio Republican, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (second from right), Kentucky Republican, and Sen. Dick Durbin, Illinois Democrat, as he meets on July 13, 2011, with Republican and Democratic leaders regarding the debt ceiling in the Cabinet Room of the White House. (Associated Press)