Dick Durbin: “How can we explain that we didn't meet the most basic requirement when it came to body armor, helicopter equipment, and…”

Public executions have no place in a democracy.

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

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.