Dick Durbin: “Thank you, Senator. I'd like to address a couple of quality-of-life issues.”

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.

These changes threaten to undermine the work of the FBI and pose a grave risk to the Bureau’s integrity.

Public executions have no place in a democracy.

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