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Richard Durbin

Richard Durbin is a Democratic U.S. Senator from Illinois in the 119th Congress. More liberal than 72% of the Senate. Every figure below links into the record it comes from.

The seat

Democratic · Illinois

Office

U.S. Senate

Party

Democratic

State

U.S. Senate · Illinois

Full name

Richard Joseph Durbin

ideology

DW-NOMINATE position

First-dimension score for the 119th Congress — the economic liberal–conservative axis political scientists use to place every member.

Durbin ranks more liberal than 72% of the Senate. Second dimension (historically social/regional): -0.31.

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