Mike Levin

Article 17.9.4 of the United States- Australia Free Trade Agreement implementing legislation allowing patent holders to prevent the import of their patented products is redundant and should not have been included in the agreement…

Today we have before us S. 2559, the Fiscal Year 2005 Defense Appropriation bill. Included in this bill is important funding for a variety of tactical wheeled vehicle programs including the Future Tactical Truck System, FTTS. FTTS is an…

I can commit to the Senator from Delaware that I will do all that I can to ensure that this area is included in the Department's review and given full consideration.

Just one word, now that we have adopted the Landrieu amendment. Chairman Warner and I used to have the privilege of having Senator Landrieu on the Armed Services Committee. We saw firsthand what a tigress she is and was relative to…

I commend the Senators who have been involved in again bringing this issue to the forefront, fighting the hard fight that was necessary for this to be accomplished. As far as I know, there are no other Senators at this point who wish to…

One final point in this minute. According to the agency's own papers, disclosures, the production rate capacity of these interceptors is one per month. That is the capacity. They are there. This is full-rate production. They are not at…

In the fiscal year 1995 Defense Authorization Act, we did precisely the same thing Senator Kennedy is asking. I am going to quote section 2(B)A. This is relative to Bosnia at that time. The report must include an estimate-- ``an…

The gentleman from Florida misdescribed 1995 and 1996. I do not think it does any credit for him to describe it that way. There was a major effort, there were differences; but we worked together. There were differences. We worked together…

Let me take back my time. The gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Cardin) and the rest of us spelled out the problems with the bill: inadequate child care moneys, and that is a problem over in the Senate; allowing waivers, essentially saying to…

We agree on many things, and that would surely be one of them. I think we would also agree that it would be nice if we could expect they would work. I think the Senator from Arizona would agree with that. The greater likelihood they would…

In terms of launching interceptors from that test bed in Alaska, that would be a stunning change in terms of the safety of the people of Alaska. I am sure if that plan has been made, there is a plan to launch missiles from that test site…

I will be very brief, given the hour. First, as to our friend's comment that this amendment suggests that we never build, only research, this amendment doesn't touch the 20 missiles slated to go into those silos in Alaska. It is my…

The amendment does relate to homeland security needs to fissile material security and to missile defense all in one amendment. I am happy to begin the debate tonight, but I do not want to complete the debate tonight given the fact the vote…

As I understand it, under the current state of the law, the situation that the State Department has determined is that when the CPA goes out of existence on the 30th, the inspector general goes out of existence with them. As I understand…

I think this is a very vital amendment. As I understand it, what the Senator from Virginia is saying is there is opposition that he knows of, or there is not.

They have proven they do not leak the information. They perform--I agree with the good chairman--a very valuable service as to what they do. But what it seems to me the chairman is saying is there is less confidence the legislative branch…

I say to the Senator, I understand what you have just suggested is that the information which we provide to the Red Cross be shared with Congress, not that the information which the Red Cross gives to us be shared with the Congress; is…

The reason I sought the floor to ask the Senator from Virginia the question is because the argument he makes seems to be based on a premise that there is a civil penalty history to this language but not a criminal penalty history. It would…

That is my question to my friend from Virginia. My question is, Is the objection to his language that it is a criminal statute--if this, for instance, simply restored the civil penalty for this material overvaluation of a good and service…

I do understand that. There is no reason both of these amendments should not be adopted. They are perfectly consistent with each other.

I understand the position, or the statements of the Senator from Virginia. Much of his opposition to the language of the Senator from Vermont is that it is in the form of a criminal statute.

I very much support his effort to codify what should be the rule relative to the use of outside people when it comes to carrying out such a critical function as interrogating prisoners of war. ... I think we must codify what is right in…

I think it is important we at least know that before we act on the amendment. I leave this up to our friend from Connecticut, but I think the heart of this amendment relates to the interrogation of the prisoners, rather than 1(b).

It seems to me abundantly clear that we cannot hire private contractors to perform a function that is inherently governmental, inherently sensitive, indeed inherently explosive, and on which there must be accountability, such as the…

I think the testimony before his committee indicated--I believe this morning--that we know it is about $4.7 billion or $4.8 billion at the current level of spending that we will need above what was in the budgeted amount. This provides…