Dick Durbin: “I plan to work with my colleagues from both sides of the aisle to do something about the cost of Federal campaigns.”

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.

Public executions have no place in a democracy.

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.

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