Dick Durbin: “In short, Mr. Chairman, this hearing comes at exactly the right time. It is an urgent need for our government to step in…”

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

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.

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.

Public executions have no place in a democracy.