Dick Durbin: “I do not quarrel with that being the reason they were proposed, but I will ask you...”

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.

We ask that you immediately provide all committee records that you have withheld, commit to fully complying with Senate Rules XXVI and XXVII going forward, and apologize to Mr. Smith on behalf of the Committee.

Transferring immigrants to Guantánamo Bay is simply unlawful, and worse yet, inhumane.

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