I am troubled by this.
I think you highlight a good starting point, but I also think that we have to start with a culture of accountability.
Do you think that Iraq is more stable today than it was a year ago?
Public service is a privilege. I have always regarded it as such.
I have never read a more carefully prepared statement, a more forthright statement, and one that has no hedges or deviations.
I have Israel's back--$3.1 billion in assistance, almost $300 additional million out of the Defense Department for Iron Dome.
Your refusal to answer whether you were right or wrong about it is going to have an impact on my judgment as to whether to vote for your con...
He was one of two Senators to oppose sanctions in 2001, again in 2008 in the Banking Committee.
He blocked unanimous consent for consideration of that before this body.
He also voted against the Sense of the Senate in designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.
I do not believe that we should move forward with his nomination until questions are answered.
Senator Hagel's performance before the Senate Armed Services Committee was the most unimpressive and unfocused that he had ever observed.
I cannot vote to report out Senator Hagel's nomination favorably.
His gratuitous attacks, for example, saying that President Bush was the worst President since Herbert Hoover, of course, were just gratuitou...
We recently voted in a vote of 90 to 1 in the U.S. Senate explicitly rejecting a policy of containment toward a nuclear-armed Iran.
I think all of us here hope that we can stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon short of military actions.
His performance before this committee was the worst that I have seen of any nominee for office.
Senator Hagel's judgment was wrong, continues to be wrong, and he refuses to admit that he was wrong on this issue.
