Dick Durbin Says Mom Would Be Proud Of Him For Making Putin Enemies List

U.S. senators are hardly flinching at the news of Russian President Vladimir Putin's expected sanctions against American officials, with a few even embracing it. "My Lithuanian-born mother would be proud her son made Vladimir Putin's American enemies list," Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told the Daily Beast in a statement he also tweeted Monday. Sanctioned lawmakers and officials would be banned from visiting Russia and subject to an asset freeze in the Russian Federation.