Dick Durbin: “Why is it that Congress continues to approve the multi-billion-dollar contracts when the Pentagon does not even want the…”

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.

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.

Public executions have no place in a democracy.