Mike Levin: “I thank my friend again. I would say of all the committees I know of, our committee, the Armed Services Committee, have…”

“I thank my friend again. I would say of all the committees I know of, our committee, the Armed Services Committee, have carried out their responsibilities better than other committees. I wish to give credit where credit is due--to our chairman. I do not know of any more honorable, decent, hard-working, fair person in this body or any body in which I have ever served. We have still, overall, as a Congress, failed in five major areas to look at the way in which detainees have been handled. That failure is going to come back to haunt our troops, and it is haunting our Nation right now. But I surely did not mean in any way to single out our committee as being the source of that failure. But we are part of a larger failure in terms of the whole Congress failing to carry out its oversight responsibility. Now, Mr. President, I wonder if my friend would accept a unanimous consent request that the time we have just taken on this subject be in morning business rather than deducted from the time on this amendment, given the interest in it. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. Who yields time?”