Dick Durbin: “The deaths of Mr. [Mamuka] Artmeladze and the 49 others who have died in ICE custody must be understood in the context…”

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.

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.

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.