Thank you. I will wrap up. To Senator Levin and Senator McCain, what they are accusing the Senators of doing is not true. They are codifying a process that will allow us to intelligently and rationally deal with people who are part of…

Let me start with my good friend from Colorado. I respect the Senator; I know his concerns. I don't agree. I can remember being told by the Bush administration: We don't need the Detainee Treatment Act. Everybody said we didn't need it…

If the Chair will let me know when 5 minutes has passed, because there are a lot of voices to be heard on this issue, and I want them to be heard. I am just one. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair will so advise.

I just want to pause and say thank you to those men and women who served so valiantly in a war that, a lot of times, is forgotten.

Mr. President, I would like to rise in support of the statements made by Senators McCain and Levin. I do not have that good a feeling about Iraq, quite frankly. I am not very confident at all that the worst is behind us. I am hopeful that…

Our oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States has more important than any allegiance my colleagues owe to any other individual.

The day we cross that rubicon and understand that the current political dynamic will never lead to a balanced budget...

Mr. President, section 1031 is a congressional statement of authority of already existing law. It reaffirms the fact this body believes al-Qaida and affiliated groups are a military threat to the United States and they can be held under…

We do not need to go to the extreme step of amending the foundational document of our democracy just to have Congress do its job.

I believe that means testing benefits received promised by Social Security would save Social Security from an inevitable bankruptcy.

The only reason I mention that, it is impossible for us as a Nation to achieve a balanced budget without affecting entitlement growth.

My view is, if we had a trial about Congress spending too much, that it would be a good thing to put the Congress on trial.

Let's sort of go down memory lane here and look at previous attempts by Congress to make sure that we don't over-spend.

I would argue, at $15 trillion of national debt, the political construct that exists today is incapable of saving the American people from financial ruin.

Putting our Nation's fiscal house in order will require tough decisions about taxes and spending.

I can only imagine what America would look like today if that requirement had been imposed in 1997.

It's anathema to our Constitutional democracy to insulate important decisions about our country's values from the people and the political process.

I sincerely hope you go to the FCC with the mindset of humble public servants and not activist agents seeking to expand the authorities of the Commission.