Dick Durbin: “What is the pending business? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Gillibrand amendment is the pending amendment.”

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.

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