I know we're spending about $1 billion a month in that effort.

If we're not asked to stay, and they are not at the level, and the investments that we have made at that point in time, what do we do?

If I may, it'll depend an awful lot on the determination and commitment by their own government and their own leaders to continue this or it'll be a catastrophic failure at the greatest proportions, and money committed to the, by the U.S…

Thank you both, to General Petraeus and Secretary Flournoy, for your service.

How is that China is the only country that is willing to go in there? How can China do it successfully?

The thing that I'm having a problem with, being the former Governor of the State of West Virginia, I know we train our State police, 26-week paramilitary training, to go into all aspects of the police force.

I have been listening to the discussion. Certainly over the last several years I have been in the committee where we have seen program after program being introduced to try to alleviate the problem that we know exists with the foreclosure…

Mr. President, tomorrow is March 11. For most of us, this date carries no particular significance. It does, however, reflect exactly 6 months before September 11. That date we do remember and will not forget. It is 6 months from the…

Let me just say that you cannot find in this Senate anybody who's more opposed to a missile defense system than I am.

Mr. President, I rise today to express my dismay at some of the irresponsible cuts in H.R. 1, particularly the elimination of a program of personal importance, The Corporation for National and Community Service which is home to the…

At my confirmation hearing, Senator Rockefeller, you referred to a report detailing declines of large marine predators by as much as 70 percent.

It's been said that basically we know what they're doing and we know the jobs that we've lost.

I was frankly surprised by your answer, Director Clapper.

If I can meet with someone in the Department of Energy to see basically what you are doing on that end of it which is the downstream end.

Will there be any type of transition at first like for 6 months or 90 days or any of that?

China? So, Donald Trump's right.

That's their intent right now, is, the buildup that you're seeing--you all definitely are watching their buildup militarily.

I thought it was a very clear question.