I think I know where the Senator was going, and the answer will be no. The Guard has enough challenges without promoting me. Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll…

Mr. President, I rise today in support of the Leahy- Graham amendment which hopefully we will vote on here soon. The amendment is pretty simple. It says the Congress has decided, in its wisdom, to make the Chief of the National Guard…

Mr. President, I ask my colleagues to join me in recognizing Michele Wymer for her outstanding service to her country in her role on the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee. Before Michele and her…

Thank you, Dr. Foxx. The new rule also makes it impossible for anyone to challenge the bargaining unit chosen by the union, dividing employees and raising employers' labor costs. We stand here today with an opportunity. We can either allow…

Thank you, Dr. Foxx. In an effort to appease the President and his union supporters, the NLRB has gone off the tracks and begun proposing harmful rules, left, right, up, down. It is ridiculous. One of these rules is why we're here today…

Thank you, Dr. Foxx. Mr. Speaker, I would like to submit for the Record the following email from Mr. Lafe Solomon, acting chief counsel of the NLRB. The article gave me a new idea. You go to geneva and I get a job with airbus. We screwed…

I want to thank the gentlelady from North Carolina for her leadership on this issue and on so many other issues on the Education and Workforce Committee. Mr. Speaker, when so many of our fellow citizens are hurting, when so many of our…

Madam Speaker, I have enjoyed sitting here listening to the arguments against this amendment. They range from the bizarre to the completely incredible. We've heard it's not 1985. I wish it were and that the deficit were only $5 trillion…

I thank the gentleman from Texas, Chairman Smith, for his leadership on this issue and so many others on Judiciary. Mr. Speaker, when Odysseus was returning from the Trojan War, he was passing the islands where the sirens sang. Many a…

Mr. Speaker, we are $15 trillion in debt. We need to tie ourselves up before we wreck this Republic.

I really didn't know that Wall Street had complete control over the gasoline and oil prices.

OK. Fair enough. But does the Senator agree with me that you cannot indefinitely hold someone under domestic criminal law without presenting them to court or reading them Miranda rights?

Right. But here is the point we are going to make. Some of us believe that presentment to a court and a Miranda warning may not be the best way to go, in terms of gathering intelligence. Under military custody for intelligence gathering…

OK. What if we have the very same person who made it out of Afghanistan and makes it to America. I think most people would want us to gather intelligence to find out what is coming next. Would the Senator agree with me, if you put someone…

So we are starting the game with military custody but for the reasons the Senator just said--and they may be good reasons, to say that is not the right way to go--they can go down another path. That is all we are trying to do. Because…

Madam President, one, I would like to begin by thanking Senators Levin and McCain. I don't know how long Senator Levin and I have been working on this together--it seems like forever--trying to get a detainee policy in a post-9/11 world…

Yes. Mr. McCAIN. I am a little puzzled. Maybe the Senator from South Carolina has a response to this. Perhaps Chairman Levin does. We did give a national security waiver, which is very generous, in that the President just has to certify…

Right. Mr. McCAIN. Why does he think that would not be acceptable if there were a case where an individual would be held by civilian authorities rather than military authorities?