But, frankly, if it had been a Resolution authorizing the use of force, I probably would have voted against it.
I think Congress has been completely irresponsible to not make the DOD appropriations bill our highest priority.
the effort to secure our borders is not limited to the borders themselves.
If the President does not empower the DNI, we can write all the language in the world, and the DNI is not going to truly...
This year, we will commemorate the worst attack ever on the United States. In doing so, we must ask ourselves, 'Are we s...
I continue to have deep concerns that this Administration refuses to acknowledge that violent Islamist extremism is the ...
We cannot become complacent or let our guard down when every single intelligence briefing that I have ever attended alwa...
with the leadership of Senator Collins and Lieberman, Congress created the Office of the Director of National Intelligen...
Senator Collins.
The person who is in charge, whoever it is, ought to be accountable to Congress at all times.
We must also pass legislation to ensure that key U.S. intelligence officials are consulted following a foreign terrorist...
the person who is in charge is Mr. Brennan at the White House.
I think that is often forgotten when some of our colleagues argue that all of the homeland security money should go to j...
I think we did create a compromise or some lack of clarity in order to get the bill accomplished.
If disaster strikes, you do not want people meeting each other for the first time and exchanging business cards in the m...
the oversight in Congress is much too diffuse and overlapping, and the consequence of that is that we are taking much to...
Last week's welcome news that Osama bin Laden was killed demonstrates exactly the kind of successful collaboration of in...
But the fact remains that al-Qaeda is not going away, and that is why it is time for Congress to closely examine and bui...
