WASHINGTON, March 24 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:

U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today delivered an opening statement at a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing entitled "Arctic Frost: A Modern Watergate." Instead of allowing Special Prosecutor Jack Smith to testify, Senate Judiciary Republicans are proceeding with a wasteful series of eight subcommittee hearings to relitigate the 2020 presidential election, despite numerous other issues worth examining within the Committee's jurisdiction. Today's subcommittee hearing is the second hearing in the series.

In February, Durbin led (https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2026.02.10%20-%20Arct...