Dick Durbin: “I have two separate statements here. The first I would like to put on the record, just over a week ago, a devastating…”

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.

To leave here without this being a law finalized to protect these young people … is painful, really painful. I don’t want them to feel like I’m abandoning them.

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

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