I thank the bill's managers, Senator Inhofe and the ranking member, Senator Jeffords, for standing up against what I believe are very misguided attempts to take a meat cleaver to this very important bill. It is terribly unfortunate that…
Mark Dayton
The Public Record
What you are getting today are questions, and I have these questions as well, about whether the deployment timetable is being dictated by professional judgments or political pronouncements.
We determined that there are no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) there that threatened our national security.
I'd like to know to what extent financial aid to Iraqis not currently employed is still being expended.
It is very important to me that the military continue to pay travel expenses in relation to the Rest and Recuperation (R&R) Leave Program.
I'm going to support it, but I'm very concerned about doing so before receiving any accounting as to how the $163 billion that has been appropriated in the previous two supplementals has been spent or is being spent now.
Our military won a tremendous victory in 3 weeks last year from the border to taking over Baghdad.
I will focus my remarks on this matter because it is one that is deserving of all the attention and concern of the Members of this body, and it is a very difficult matter, one that I wish we didn't have to confront in this Chamber and one…
this amendment will provide $1.1 million in funding for the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building at the Neighborhood House in St. Paul, MN. It is funding for the completion of a commitment which Congress made last year…
I observed, then, the time we devoted to this had already become excessive as indicated by the fact the statements being mailed were becoming increasingly repetitive and redundant. Now I see the added problem is, as we go even further…