Dick Durbin: “It is not just simply because of their love for our system of government.”

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.

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.

The lack of community involvement and speed with which this project has moved forward raises questions about the role of private interests.