As his career in politics comes to an end Illinois US Senator Dick Durbin cast his 17,000th vote as a member of the US Congress on Tuesday.
Those votes include his service in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Of the more than 12,500 members who have ever served in Congress,
Durbin’s vote tally puts him in the top 100 of all-time vote casters. And of Members of Congress who have served in the Senate, only six have ever cast more yea or nay votes in their congressional careers than Durbin.
