Dick Durbin: “I do not disagree with any of your general analysis on contractors.”

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.

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.

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