Dick Durbin: “Mr. Hughes, when you were a trial attorney for the Justice Department, you were involved in several cases relating to…”

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

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.

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.