Dick Durbin: “It strikes me that this really is offensive, that someone says, I have got to protect my rights, but in absentia, I have…”

Public executions have no place in a democracy.

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

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.

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.