Dick Durbin: “As a young startup, our resources and influence are limited. We do not have the resources to devote to GNI membership.”

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

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.

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.