Dick Durbin: “I know you want the best, and we do too, to protect our Nation, and to serve in the Air Force.”

The lack of community involvement and speed with which this project has moved forward raises questions about the role of private interests.

For decades, America has stood as the bastion of freedom against tyranny, and American presidents have embodied our nation’s resistance to tyrants. Putin is a tyrant.

The lowering of the FBI's hiring standards "threaten[s] to undermine the work of the FBI and pose a grave risk to the Bureau's integrity.

To leave here without this being a law finalized to protect these young people … is painful, really painful. I don’t want them to feel like I’m abandoning them.