Dick Durbin: “It is indeed a great honor. I do not know how many men and women have lived in the United States of America in our…”

“It is indeed a great honor. I do not know how many men and women have lived in the United States of America in our history--hundreds of millions, for sure. Today there are some 300 million who count America as their home. In the entire history of the United States of America, from its creation, as of today, as of this moment in our history, 1,895 men and women have had this high honor of serving in the Senate. Today, we were joined by 10 more. Their life stories, like the stories of many of us, are the stories of America: stories of immigrant families, stories of struggle, stories of dreams that finally resulted in an election to this great body in the Senate.”