Dick Durbin: “This Committee has also received a striking outpouring of support for your nomination from a very broad range of…”

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

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.

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.

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