Employment verification is a very promising idea and it has tremendous potential to ensure that U.S. jobs only go to U.S. citizens and those who are legally authorized to work in the U.S.

If E-Verify becomes mandatory before these errors are fixed, millions of Americans could be misidentified as unauthorized to work, and I think that is an unacceptable result.

I applaud your efforts.

I'm disappointed that it's not being combined with a serious initiative to address the underdevelopment of the region.

There's now widespread consensus that transparency in contracts and revenues and expenditures is a critical ingredient to guard against corruption and conflict in natural resource management.

Senator Lugar's committee staff produced an excellent report on this, last year.

I think that we're better off moving to a different venue.

What we are hearing today is a continuation of the assault by the American political left on the entire institution of Guantanamo Bay and the people who have been sent to Guantanamo Bay.

And this was the guy that was released from GTMO to the Afghans because of, quote, world pressure, unquote, that was ginned up by people who disagree with the American policy in fighting terrorism. Am I right on that?

Between 1993 and 2001, this country took the approach of prosecuting terrorism in courtrooms as criminal defendants rather than fighting them on the battlefield as foreign enemies.

Today it appears the Obama administration is increasingly retreating to this failed approach.

The concern that I have is that there has been a track record of people who have been released from Guantanamo going back home and continuing their battled ways.

What happened to those 500 that left? I heard my friend from Texas talk about how 71 have returned to the battlefield.

the Federal employee who is in a same-sex partnership, whether they are married, in a marriage recognized at their State level or not, would have to file an affidavit of eligibility relating to their domestic partnership in order to…

This legislation is needed to offer gay and lesbian Federal workers true equality and benefits and ensure fairness in the workplace.

the principles of equality, fairness, and inclusion in the workplace, principles that should be commonplace for the Federal Government as an employer both in theory and in fact.

As a diplomat, I advanced American principles of equality, fair play, and respect for diversity in the countries to which I was posted;

LGBT Americans are not demanding so-called special rights, as some claim, through this or any other bill.