Dick Durbin: “I am urging my Republican colleagues. We have received 12 blue slips so far. I think we could do better.”

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.

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.