Dick Durbin: “Proceeding as the majority has unilaterally chosen today is unprecedented. It is wrong.”

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

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.

These authorities require you to apply economic pressure on Russia and the chief enablers of its war, in particular China, and thereby enhance your negotiating position to bring a swift end to this ruinous conflict.