Dick Durbin: “I am grateful that both Federal individual and public assistance will be made available there.”

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.

Public executions have no place in a democracy.

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.

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