Dick Durbin: “The House continuing resolution H.R. 1 would cut administrative funding for SSA by $125 million below last year's level.”

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

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.

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

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.