Jon Kyl

I think it is appropriate--in fact, it is necessary to know who your enemy is in order to prevail against them.

I appreciate your answer and would strongly encourage you to ensure that others in the Department do not shy away from, when it is appropriate, referring to terrorists by their real name.

DHS has an outside working group of advisers that has prepared a draft report that, among other things, deals with the terminology for referring to Islamist terrorists.

I do not want that to happen with regard to Agent Terry and his family as well.

I have been an advocate of victims' rights for a long time, among which are to understand the facts of the case surrounding the death of a loved one.

I would urge my colleagues to fully participate in this debate, come to the floor with any questions or comments they have, and at the end of this process Chairman Leahy will finally be rewarded with a bill that will bear his imprimatur…

Last week we were all celebrating what would have been the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan. There was a piece in the Wall Street Journal by one of the economists who advised Ronald Reagan, Arthur Laffer, which I think recounts and…

My work in support of the Leahy bill on patent reform, which is just another example.

I want to join Senator Grassley in thanking you for holding this hearing on an extremely important topic

The second ranking Republican in the senate is stepping down. Jon Kyl of Arizona announced today he won't seek a fourth term in 2012.

I will comment more when I make my concluding comments, but what we have just done is to agree to provide a mechanism for the President to certify a way forward to fund the two large facilities that are part of the nuclear weapons complex…

In any event, what is good for the goose is good for the gander. If we put a limitation on the United States on something they are not developing, then it is only fair to put a limitation on them with regard to something we are not…

I am a little bit flummoxed here because I thought in a conversation I had a couple of days ago with Senator Kerry that side agreements might be all right; that we didn't want to amend the preamble or didn't want to amend the treaty but…

I am not arguing that this issue has been resolved within Russia as to whether to go forward. I am not arguing whether it is a good thing or a bad thing. I simply submit it in response to the argument that the Russians would be crazy to…

I hope my colleague is not suggesting that, under no circumstances, should the Senate ever change a treaty so that the other party to the treaty would have to, in effect--well, the Senate would never be able to change a treaty. Put it that…

If we were developing a system which the Russians say will bother them because we could use that against them, and they want us to change it in some way, my best guess is that he will be inclined to change it, even though he wrote a letter…

I think the answer is, first of all, that I don't think at this moment in time he can clarify it in that regard because he can't predict what concerns the Russians will bring to him and what his response at that point will need to be.

If it is not binding, then why does my colleague assume the Duma would have such a hard time accepting the modest change we are proposing?

You said, then, the treaty would have to go back to the Russians. Of course, the Russian Duma is poised to act on this treaty after the Senate does so. The treaty is going to go to the Russians, and unless my colleague is suggesting the…

The answer to the question is, if the Senate, which is supposed to provide its advice and consent--in other words, it is the other half of the equation to the Presidency, and if we are not to be a rubberstamp, and presumably we can take…

In a technical legal sense, I believe that is the way it is interpreted. I might also make another point, just to correct something--and we can have this debate later if you want to-- but it is not true that no changes qualitatively or…

That is the point I am making, and in contrast to the START I negotiations, where when the Russians said essentially something very similar to this, we pushed back and said: No, you are wrong, that would not be an appropriate reason to…

It cannot be insignificant but also be so important as to be a treaty killer. I suppose it is possible for one side to treat it as insignificant and the other side to treat it as very significant. Thus, insofar as the Russians are…

Yes, that took a lot of my time, working on the Omnibus appropriations bill. As the Senator knows, when, 2 days ago, we began debate on the START treaty, there was an assumption that I would speak immediately--on the first evening, I said…

The majority leader pulled it down in order to reach an agreement with the Republican side on a much slimmed down version, a continuing resolution.