I think there has to be a compromise on a bipartisan basis, like we did in the late 1990s.

He has been extremely involved in our community, and later after Mel came to the Senate, Skip came up here and gave 6 months of his life as Mel's general counsel here in the Senate office.

Skip is a native Floridian. He is a graduate with high honors of the University of Florida and the University of Florida Law School.

I want to give some special note to the staff that is seated behind you because they are the ones that go through all of the laborious tasks.

We should not associate the protests in Jordan and Bahrain with events transpiring in Tripoli, Cairo, and Beirut.

Madam Speaker, we must maintain firm ties with our allies, and enemies must be clearly identified. I hope that this administration can tell who's who.

The U.S. should never have been supporting a government with Hezbollah. Now, with Hezbollah in control, what is the justification for continued U.S. taxpayer investment?

This administration's prior decision to cut support from pro-democracy civil groups in Egypt and to only fund groups pre-cleared with the Mubarak government is a mistake we must never repeat.

We have failed to effectively use our resources to help build strong, accountable institutions that protect basic human rights.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the retirement of Mayor Rae Carole Armstrong of the city of Plantation, Florida. Mayor Armstrong has nearly 30 years of distinguished public service working on behalf of the residents of Plantation…

I think that the argument that some have made--and not that I'm making it today, but the argument that some have made is that, the fact that we--that, to the extent that food does get to people in North Korea--and it's a very calloused…

We are increasing and continuing to depend on foreign sources of energy.

It is the--it is something that they--their ability to have a nuclear program makes them, not just a force to be reckoned with in the region.

This is just not just an economic issue; this is a national defense issue that we are not doing a thing about and we need to get on with it.

Why is this administration--and you as Secretary of State are one of the leaders who is supposed to make sure that we are protected from enemies, both domestic and foreign--and right now, you know because you have been over the problems…

This administration is doing absolutely nothing to deal with it.

It seems to me like this idea, that we're going to somehow be able to pressure and/or convince them to abandon this program--the price of pressuring them seems like it's extraordinarily high, given the central importance that this has on…

It sounds like the testimony, basically, is that they're willing to let their people starve.