Dick Durbin: “We expect to begin consideration of the America Invents Act--the patent reform bill--during Wednesday's session.…”

For decades, America has stood as the bastion of freedom against tyranny, and American presidents have embodied our nation’s resistance to tyrants. Putin is a tyrant.

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.

Transferring immigrants to Guantánamo Bay is simply unlawful, and worse yet, inhumane.

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.