Dick Durbin: “I thank my colleague, Senator Kirk, for signing a blue slip signaling his support for that nomination.”

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.

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 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.

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