Dick Durbin: “I happen to come down on the side that Federal involvement in this is warranted.”

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

Public executions have no place in a democracy.

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.

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.