Dick Durbin: “The answer from me, after 4 years' experience on the Senate Intelligence Committee, it is not even close.”

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.

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.

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