Springfield, IL  (CAPITOL CITY NOW) – In the wake of Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski agree we should focus on political rhetoric.

“Politicians of all political stripes are saying it’s time to take a hard look at our business, what we’re saying about one another and the impact it’s having on people,” said Durbin at a press conference Monday to celebrate a federal grant to the Sangamon Mass Transit District.

“We need to lower the political temperature in this country. We need more civility. We need more compassion for one another. We all have our own part to play in making sure we are lowering that political temperature, and I’m going to do my part,” said Budzinski at the event.

“Thank God he survived,” were Durbin’s words while commenting on how if the bullet had hit the former president one inch in a different direction, there could have been a very different outcome.

Both Durbin and Budzinski expressed sympathy for Corey Comperatore, the firefighter who lost his life while reportedly shielding his family from the gunfire, as well as the others who were injured at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Durbin, who serves as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he received a briefing Monday morning from the FBI, and the investigation is far from complete. Durbin said, “It’s remarkable just how unremarkable the shooter was.” Meaning at this time, his background doesn’t “link up with some of the radicalism you expect” from someone who attempted to assassinate a former president.

“We have real differences, and we should express them, but violence should never be part of our political discourse,” said Durbin. “Congress has a responsibility to ask hard questions about how the sniper team could have acted so quickly to execute the shooter yet not identify him in advance.”