Richard Shelby: “the scourge of terrorism and the harboring of terrorists has become a global phenomenon.”

Iran continues its own pursuit of a nuclear weapon, while also arming radical militia groups across the Middle East.

Regrettably, this was all predictable and avoidable.

on Roy Blunt, I first met him when he was a whip in the House. We had some kind of conference going, and I thought: My gosh, he can count votes. He is the whip. He can count votes in the conference, too, and so forth. And then, when he…

a lot of untrained men in this circumstance might be called into training and exercises that they aren't prepared for