Mark Begich: “I was somewhat shocked when I got here and found out we were funding at about a 20-percent level or so.”

I further ask unanimous consent that the committee- reported substitute amendment be withdrawn, the Begich substitute amendment, which is at the desk, be agreed to, the bill, as amended, be read a third time and passed, the title…

If we do not do this as a national model, you will not be as successful as we need you to be for the veterans of this country.

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on December 9, 2014, at 2 p.m., to conduct a hearing entitled ``Authorization for the use of Military Force Against ISIL…

Just assuming the private sector is going to absorb all this is not realistic.