Dick Durbin: “This hearing of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights will come to order.”

Public executions have no place in a democracy.

Changes of this magnitude with no discernible justification must be scrutinized.

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.

These changes threaten to undermine the work of the FBI and pose a grave risk to the Bureau’s integrity.