I would like to minimize that to nothing.

Many of our aging facilities are in need of repair or replacement. The continued strong support of the Congress for Army National Guard military construction and facilities sustainment, restoration, and maintenance funding is crucial to…

I'm considering introducing legislation that would enhance retention of those experienced career servicemembers.

The lead U.S. agency for rule-of-law and other governance development initiatives is the Department of State.

I kept telling my colleagues for 8 years it was a good idea, finally we do have it.

Political, ethnic, and sectarian tensions may continue to surface in sporadic bouts of violence.

It's a matter of respect. It's a matter of respecting each other. It's a matter of honoring each other's integrity and their person and treating each other as we would want to be treated.

The Attorney General of Arizona has said this is the new crime syndicate in America.

Eight years ago, I took up an issue.

We have to really create a new entity.

Both DOD and VA support the Transfer of Personnel with the agreed upon language as contained in the bill sponsored by Senator Durbin.

We are committed to comprehensive accountability measures to ensure that these funds go exactly where they are intended to go.

I do not know if you happened to see a few weeks ago when '60 Minutes' had a program about eyewitness identification.

It really kind of calls into question in my mind--I am trying to get to the bottom line here--about what we expect of our criminal law enforcement system in a democratic society.

147 cases in a police lab mess called the 'tip of the iceberg.'

The entity that is established to govern the forensic science community cannot be principally beholden to law enforcement.

I thought that that was kind of a solid, objective piece of evidence that we could rely on here.

The President's policy towards Afghanistan notes that part of our counter-insurgency strategy must include building effective local governance.