I believe, however, like many of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, that the President should seek congressional authorization for his expanded campaign to degrade and destroy ISIS.

The President should, in my opinion, do everything he possibly can to protect Americans and to protect U.S. facilities in Iraq and Syria from ISIS.

I believe that the threat of these fighters returning from the battlefield to carry out attacks... are an issue that we must be addressing now.

We do not have enough amphibious ships but given today's fiscal environment and budget uncertainty, the current plan provides the best balance of assets in this period of limited resources and diminishing flexibility.

I am especially concerned that the Iraqi Security Forces lost large quantities of U.S.-provided weapons to ISIL forces.

Military assistance from the U.S. Government and the coalition has been, and will continue to be, predicated upon the formation of an inclusive Iraqi government.

Mr. President, I rise today to speak about the importance of closing the pay gap for women, and I thank my colleague from California, Senator Boxer, who has been working on this issue on the front line for so long as a leader on the Lilly…

The two front seat airbags did not deploy. It appears the ignition switch had somehow been turned from the run position to accessory prior to the collision with the trees.

We need to sit down with them with our researchers, our rulemakers, and our defects investigators in a room...

I believe, along with Senator Kaine, that stretching the AUMF from 2001 or 2002 to cover this situation renders the constitutional clause a nullity.

Again, if you're in a passing lane, and you're moving at 60 miles an hour, and you have a flat, you're panicking.

But do you agree? Will you say that NHTSA got it wrong when it found that cars stalling on their own was not a safety problem?

When you agreed with GM that cars stalling on their own did not pose a safety problem, that is wrong.

You do agree that's a separate issue and that that was something that the public should have been warned about, do you not?

Earlier today, General Motors and I reached a substantial agreement on a modified version of the legislation...

It is absolutely imperative that we pass legislation that requires a disclosure of all of this information when it is in the hands of the Government.

Do you agree that if it had been made public that it could have avoided unnecessary deaths having occurred?

will be made public this year, there's a big problem.