Dick Durbin: “I noticed in your opening testimony you talked about the efforts to extradite those in Mexico responsible for the…”

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

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

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.

You can’t survive in politics unless you’re optimistic. You’ve got to believe that even though you face a setback or you don’t have all the laws you need, that tomorrow will be better.