Mr. President, in just a few minutes we are going to have a procedural vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act. If we truly believe women and men are equal and should be paid equally, this ought to be an overwhelming vote. The Senate women held…

I would like to thank Senator Boxer's staff for bringing to light an issue with the GM recall website.

For us to say that we are going to go in and help and train-and-equip these people, and only to fight against ISIL, you're not going to get many recruits to do that.

Assad has lost all legitimacy to govern and has created the conditions that allowed ISIL and other terrorist groups to gain ground.

Are you concerned, Secretary Hagel, about our southern border?

The United States will not coordinate or cooperate with the Assad regime.

I understand that, according to your testimony, we will be training and equipping approximately 5,000 in 1 year.

If one of the Free Syrian Army is fighting against Bashar Assad, and he is attacking them from the air, would we take action to prevent them from being attacked by Bashar Assad?

That's a fundamental misunderstanding of the entire concept and motivation of the Free Syrian Army.

Destroying ISIL will require more than military efforts alone, it will require political progress in the region.

I take it from your answer that we are now recruiting these young men to go and fight in Syria against ISIL, but if they are attacked by Bashar Assad, we are not going to help them.

If the Free Syrian Army units are attacked from the air by Bashar Assad, will we prevent those attacks from taking place and take out Bashar Assad's air assets?

We've learned the hard way that these countries with very few medical resources, when they face this kind of epidemic challenge, are only a 10-hour plane ride away from the United States.

I hope and expect that in the next day or two the Senate will vote in favor of the $88 million that Senator Moran and I worked to secure in the continuing resolution (CR) to do just that.

I have been working and we included in the immigration bill which passed the U.S. Senate a provision which provided in one respect if you are medically trained in Africa and have promised to serve in Africa for a certain period of time…

That I think is an indication, at least a few years ago, a snapshot of the scarcity of medical professionals at the highest level, doctors and such.

I hope that there's nothing that's been done on a budgetary basis that has slowed down the development of an Ebola vaccine or a response that might be helpful.

I would hope before this week ends and we return home that we might consider bringing this to the floor on a bipartisan basis and expedite the appointment of Dr. Frieden.