Joe Lieberman

Dr. Hicks, in the future, should DOD strategic reviews like the QDR include separate resource-unconstrained and resource-constrained components?

Dr. Hicks, the 2010 QDR included assessments of operational risk, force management risk, institutional risk, future challenges risk, and strategic, military, and political risks incurred by its recommended approach.

Did the expectation of reduced DOD budgets play a role in the analysis that produced the DSG?

Some groups of citizens, respected citizens, including some retired military, have called in recent times to set the goal of the elimination of nuclear weapons...

Iran and Hezbollah remain capable of conducting operations in the region--including assassinations, bombings, and kidnappings--against United States or partner nation interests.

I think we also have to acknowledge that the Budget Control Act has already put, if not devastating, very damaging, in my opinion, restraints on our military spending.

Dr. Hicks, in general, do you believe DOD strategic reviews should be shaped by resource considerations?

Did budgetary concerns play a role in the analysis that produced the 2010 QDR?

Given the significantly compressed timeline to produce the DSG as compared to the 2010 QDR, would you say that the analysis behind the DSG, and by extension the fiscal year 2013 budget request, was more rigorous or less rigorous than the…

There will clearly be growing international pressure and domestic pressure, including from some of us up here, for some kind of external assistance to the Free Syrian Army and to the Syrian opposition.

History will show that it is not really worth even the paper the signature is on.

The killings by the Assad Government of its own people continues, I do not know whether a document was signed by Syria to agree to the Annan plan.

The President has made clear that prevention is our policy and that containment is not an option.

Thanks to the six of you for your willingness to serve.

The Assad regime, as you have said, has continued to conduct activities within Syria that are reprehensible and that reinforce in my mind and in our mind the fact that this regime needs to go.

This is of grave concern to the maritime industry in Connecticut, as well as Submarine Base New London, since failure to complete an SEIS would have effectively shuttered our two existing dredged material disposal sites.

Without Congress' ability to provide suggestions through the traditional appropriations process, I fear that the Army Corps will continue to focus on dredging our large ports, and our small ports and harbors will be neglected.

This has been a good, open process. We had a good bill that came in. We made it better. I yield back the remainder of my time.

I rise to oppose the amendment. This amendment would take Congress from where we have always been and are going to be after this law passes. In pursuit of disclosure and transparency, sunshine is the best guarantee of integrity. This would…

Well, it would give me less heartburn, but it would probably still leave me needing at least a Rolaid.

First let me thank Senator Collins for making these points because there is concern about this particular part of the bill. There is a lot of misinformation around. I totally agree with her interpretation, which is that the reporting on…

On behalf of the majority leader, he has asked me to announce there will be no more votes tonight. If I may say, on my own behalf, we will go to the STOCK Act, S. 2038, tomorrow morning and hope anyone who has a relevant amendment will…

If we are not including contractors in the protection of the whistleblower legislation, then we have a huge problem here.

Now, there is a dirty little secret that people like to ignore, and, frankly, one of the reasons I voted against the Republican proposal last week on the extension of the payroll tax is because it was all about limiting Federal employees.

And a whistleblower that has reprisals against them is something that we cannot stand for in this government.