Dick Durbin: “Did the majority leader not notify the entire Senate that we would be working on Fridays? Mr. McCONNELL. I am not…”

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.

Public executions have no place in a democracy.

You can’t survive in politics unless you’re optimistic. You’ve got to believe that even though you face a setback or you don’t have all the laws you need, that tomorrow will be better.

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