U.S. Sen Dick Durbin had hip replacement surgery in Oak Brook on Thursday. His office termed the procedure ‘successful.”
Sen. Dick Durbin heads to a news conference with fellow Democrats at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 9, 2024, in Washington. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin underwent hip replacement surgery in Oak Brook on Thursday, according to a statement from his office.
While the Senate isn’t currently in session, Durbin serves as a Democratic leader and likely will be thrust further into the spotlight when the Democratic National Convention comes to Chicago this summer. Speculation has been widespread on whether he will run for a sixth term in 2026. Durbin said at the time of his knee replacement surgery in October that it was “s a result of my unremarkable high school football career.”Durbin told Bloomberg Government in 2022 that he was “mindful of my own physical and mental abilities, as I watch my colleagues, some of them struggling with aging, others conquering it pretty easily.”
Durbin was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996. He is the Senate majority whip and chair of the Judiciary Committee, and is the senior senator from Illinois, alongside Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth.
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