Dick Durbin: “I'm pleased to convene this hearing to consider the fiscal year 2012 funding request for the Internal Revenue Service…”

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.

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.

Public executions have no place in a democracy.

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