Dick Durbin: “We ought to give them a break in life. They are doing what we ask them to do.”

We ask that you immediately provide all committee records that you have withheld, commit to fully complying with Senate Rules XXVI and XXVII going forward, and apologize to Mr. Smith on behalf of the Committee.

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.

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

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