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The President has said, many times, still strongly believes, that Assad has lost the legitimacy to govern his own people.

No is the first basic answer.

American military power alone cannot and will not eradicate the threats posed by ISIL to the United States, our allies, and our friends and partners in the region.

ISIL is a threat to America, our allies, our interests around the world.

Iraq's continued political progress toward a more inclusive and representative government and its programs of reform and reconciliation will be critical to achieve the progress required.

Thank you, gentlemen, for being here today.

I rise to express my strong frustration--and the frustration of Nebraskans--with the Senate's current debate. Similar to many of my colleagues, I spent the past 5 weeks traveling my State and meeting with constituents. I held over one…

The NRC's timely review of license submittals is critical to the success of our domestic uranium industry.

Should you be confirmed, will you commit to working with me and my office to engage in these licensing and relicensing efforts?

I do think it is appropriate to question the practicality of the rule without being accused of being a denier.

In fact, the Pentagon has presented options to the President and while they are constantly reassessing those and offering new options.

The mission he has been tasked with is to degrade and destroy, not to contain, not to minimize, et cetera.

We got to destroy it, because if we don't destroy it, it will get worst and it will get wider and deeper.

We've never seen anything like this, we've got to be prepared for everything.

Oh, this is beyond anything that we've seen. So we must prepare for everything and the only way you do that is you take a cold steely hard to look at it and get ready.

This is beyond anything we've seen so we must prepare for everything and the only way you do that, you should take a cold steely, hard look at it and get ready beyond anything we've seen.

It is frustrating as a policymaker. It is frustrating as we do engage in how much money to spend--taxpayer dollars--to maintain the commitment that I think we can all agree we have to stand behind our veterans and their care.

I would humbly ask that you refrain from using many of these driving factors, seemingly driving factors in the decision because I just do not think it can be relevant.