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Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin announced Wednesday greeting helium is retiring and volition not tally for reelection successful 2026.
The determination of whether to tally for re-election has not been easy. I genuinely emotion the occupation of being a United States Senator.
But successful my heart, I cognize it’s clip to walk the torch.
So, I americium announcing contiguous that I volition not beryllium seeking re-election astatine the extremity of my term. pic.twitter.com/eiBTPjToFT
In a video posted to X, Durbin said, "I genuinely emotion the occupation of being a United State senator, but successful my bosom I cognize it is clip to walk the torch. So, I americium announcing contiguous I volition not beryllium seeking reelection astatine the extremity of my term."
Durbin is the elder legislator for Illinois. He was archetypal elected to the U.S. Senate successful 1996, filling the spot near vacant by longtime Sen. Paul Simon.
He besides serves astatine the Senate Democratic Whip, the second-highest ranking presumption for the enactment successful the Senate. He was archetypal elected to this enactment station by Senate Democrats successful 2005, and has been reelected to it each 2 years since.
Durbin is the ranking subordinate of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He besides serves connected the Appropriations Committee and the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee.
He introduced the Dream Act, which would springiness undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. arsenic children and grew up present a way to citizenship, successful 2001 alongside Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). He was besides a unit down the constitution of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival Program, oregon DACA, created by President Barack Obama successful 2012.
He besides championed the First Step Act, which was signed into instrumentality by President Trump successful 2018, a bipartisan transgression justness measure that reformed sentencing laws and provided much opportunities for incarcerated radical to re-enter nine upon their release.
Durbin and his woman Loretta Schaefer Durbin unrecorded successful Springfield, Illinois. He has 3 children – Paul, Jennifer and Christine, his oldest girl who died successful 2008 from complications from a congenital bosom condition.
Sara Tenenbaum is the Senior Digital Producer for CBS News Chicago covering breaking, section and assemblage quality successful Chicago. She antecedently worked arsenic a integer shaper and elder integer shaper for ABC7 Chicago.
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