Dick Durbin: “I hope that you understand that this lifetime appointment gives you an opportunity to serve our Nation, but also to…”

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.

These changes threaten to undermine the work of the FBI and pose a grave risk to the Bureau’s integrity.