Mr. President, I am pleased to introduce legislation establishing a temporary jobs tax credit to help businesses expand their payroll here in the U.S. by hiring more employees, expanding work hours, or raising pay. The measure is modeled…

Who is helped, or hurt, by Citizens United decision

It is not clear to me that the Afghan and Pakistani Governments are pursuing the political solutions that are the best way to stabilize the situation.

I am not convinced that there is a military solution to the instability in Afghanistan and the region.

there's a risk that increased United States counterterrorism assistance to the Saleh government could be used as a rallying point for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and affiliated groups

I am concerned that the policy of enhanced screening for all nationals from 14 countries will potentially harm our relations with governments and populations that can be allies in defeating al Qaeda and its affiliates and may not be an…

I am, of course, a little mystified by this reaction given the similarity of this case to the attempt by Richard Reid who was prosecuted in Federal court by the prior administration, now serving a life sentence.

But we must also approach our task calmly and thoughtfully and not treat this as an opportunity to score political points.

I am troubled by the thought that rating security, airport security in different countries, if it were done very critically, would probably disclose wide variances between the security effectiveness implemented in different countries.

I would like to hear a little bit from you all about body scanners, their use, their effectiveness, and plans to expand them.

I just hope you continue to do that and think about the potential for enemy coordination in places like Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen.

I have never heard about an airport that has been cited and disallowed from originating flights into the United States because of lack of proper security observations.

I cannot overstate the importance of denying al-Qaeda safe havens in Yemen and countries like it.

the Houthi conflict can--needs to be solved through negotiation, that there's no military solution to that

Other Members of Congress, including Senator Feingold, have regularly raised awareness of the threats emerging from Yemen.

Significant human rights problems persisted . . . and there were limitations on citizens' ability to change their government due to corruption, fraudulent voter registration, and administrative weakness.

we are acutely aware of the dangers of radicalization within refugee camps

I am also very concerned about the repressive nature of Yemen's Government.