FRANKFORT - Today, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, Co-Chair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus, joined U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Susan Collins (R-ME), Alan Armstrong (R-OK), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Jack Reed (D-RI), Chris Coons (D-DE), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and John Cornyn (R-TX) in a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to rescind his recent agreement with President Vladimir Putin to allow Russian-or… Continue Reading
In August 2026, congressional staff conducted an oversight visit to Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, where the Trump Administration has transported immigrants despite the facility’s failure to meet some basic immigration detention standards including lack of access to counsel, failure to post required information in areas where detention operations were being conducted, and confusion amongst the agency representatives during the visit about which federal agencies’ detention standards should be foll… Continue Reading
U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today sent a letter to Don Berthiaume, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG), requesting that he investigate the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) decision to modify the hiring standards that govern the FBI’s workforce by removing theft from an employer, sex solicitation, and bestiality from its list of automatic hiring disqualifications. In June, the FBI reportedly made thes… Continue Reading
September 30, 2026