Dick Durbin: “Between 2003 and 2012, the NIH budget has not even kept up with inflation, resulting instead in a 22 percent decline in…”

Changes of this magnitude with no discernible justification must be scrutinized.

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

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.

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.