protecting local populations will create safe areas where civil society can emerge.

Well the end game is a functioning -- flawed, but functioning government in Iraq, with the Iraqi military able to take over our responsibilities.

I have not talked to a single senior officer who opposes this amendment.

He's sponsoring a bill on limiting torture in wartime that puts him squarely in opposition to the president.

Senator John McCain is going to speak out tomorrow on winning the war in Iraq.

We should have an overall administrator, someone like Rudy Giuliani, Jack Welch, Lou Gerstner, Colin Powell, we need an overall administrator, the go-to guy that can tell everybody what to do or woman -- Saved.

Why is the price of copper at an all-time high? The Chinese are buying every scrap of copper that's available. Supply and demand.

I've been with the president when he has met with the families. And he has expressed, I think incredibly, his sympathy, and his concern, and his love for the men and women who have sacrificed and their families.

Both Frist and McCain say they have enough votes in the full Senate to confirm him.

The position is too important to be left empty. They've painted Democrats as obstructionists.

Bolton's already been nominated -- already been confirmed four times by the Senate for other diplomatic posts. Why is this time different?

Bolton's already been confirmed four times by the Senate for other diplomatic posts. Why is this time different?

I'm grateful for the efforts of Senator Frist and Senator Reid to come to an agreement on this issue.

This agreement is meant in the finest traditions of the Senate it was entered into: trust, respect and mutual desire to see the institution of the Senate function in ways that protect the rights of the minority.

Senator McCain asserts the Senate won and the country won.

We're here, 14 Republicans and Democrats, seven on each side, to announce that we have reached an agreement to try to avert a crisis in the United States Senate and pull the institution back from a precipice that would have had, in the…

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