I am aware of the issue, and of the concerns raised by the Senator from Ohio about this definition. Section 823 of the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 directed the Secretary of Defense to review the…

I am aware of the concerns raised by the Senator from Ohio, and I assure him that I will give careful consideration to those concerns as we go to conference with the House of Representatives on this provision.

Mr. President, this has made it possible for us to be here tonight, and I wanted to say that while Senator Landrieu was on the floor and to express what I think is, if not the unanimous, certainly the near unanimous gratitude of this body…

Mr. President, while I have the floor, and while Senator Landrieu is here, let me add my voice of thanks and gratitude to Senator Landrieu for the energy she shows as chair of our Small Business Committee. I am honored to be a member of…

Mr. President, first, while Senator Landrieu is here-- because she, I know, is going to be interested in this and is right on top of this--I want to assure her it was our intention with the previous order to have the Landrieu amendment No…

Mr. President, I, too, will oppose the Paul amendment for the repeal of the authorization for the use of military force in Iraq for a number of reasons, but I think mainly there are just too many unknown, uncertain consequences of…

I wonder if the Senator from Kentucky would just yield for 30 seconds, not to be taken from his time, so I can answer a question that has been asked of me: What happened to the approximately 35 to 40 amendments which we had cleared? Why…

Mr. President, until Senator Paul gets here to begin debate on his amendment, I would, very briefly, describe what we have described before, which is the anticounterfeiting amendment, which is so important to stop the flow of counterfeit…

So now before us is the Paul amendment No. 1064, with 30 minutes of debate. I do not see Senator Paul in the Chamber. I ask unanimous consent that Senator Baucus be added as a cosponsor to our Levin-McCain amendment No. 1092. The PRESIDING…

Mr. President, I now ask unanimous consent that the Levin- McCain amendment No. 1092, which is the regular order, be modified with the changes that are at the desk--that amendment addresses the issue of counterfeit parts in the Department…

Secondly, there are two colloquies between myself and Senator Sherrod Brown. At the end of these colloquies, in both cases, Senator Brown withdraws the amendments referred to in the colloquies, amendments Nos. 1260 and 1262. So I ask…

Mr. President, I was listening in the cloakroom to Senator Tester's comments about his amendment, and I wish to tell everyone how right on point he is. I am focusing on overseas bases and the need to close some of those bases. We have…