Dick Durbin: “It is torture, pure and simple, no matter what else we want to call it. I would like to think that we can all agree that…”

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

Public executions have no place in a democracy.

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.

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.