Dick Durbin: “This hearing of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights will come to order.”

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.

Public executions have no place in a democracy.

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.