Dick Durbin: “I'm sorry that our colleague--we're all sorry that our colleague, Senator Kennedy, cannot be with us today.”

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.

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.