General Lennox and General Phillips, over the years there have been many assertions that the Army's current basic rifle and carbine should be replaced.

It is our responsibility here in this committee to understand what those challenges are so we can better advocate for you.

Sir, I was just going to add to what General Lennox said at the end there that when General Austin came onboard, the first thing he did was say, 'Let us look at the CPR business and really take and work that.'

General Lennox and General Phillips, how has the current M4 carbine performed in theater?

Yes. I agree. You can't do it all. So the challenge, of course, is to minimize risk. You can't eliminate it here.

Will you ensure that the fiscal year 2014 to fiscal year 2018 MILCON Program Objective Memorandum considers the needs of our laboratories?

I just want to clarify.

in your view, is there a clear requirement for a new IC?

The Democratic leader is correct. As the Director of Enforcement at the SEC, Robert Khuzami, stated in his testimony before the House Financial Services Committee: ``You have to be acting with corrupt intent, knowledge, or recklessness. If…

I thank the Senator from Nevada. I am happy about the reforms that Congress has adopted, and I agree that the STOCK Act is not intended to limit government transparency or hinder dissemination of information to interested parties regarding…

That is correct. It is not the intent of the STOCK Act to override the President's authority for necessary exemptions for intelligence activities.

I thank the Chair. I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support this bipartisan and now bicameral congressional ethics measure. This started as a response to stories and allegations that Members of Congress would not be held…

I rise today to support cloture on the motion to concur in the House amendment to the ``Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act,'' the ``STOCK Act''--S. 2038. We have come a long way in a short time in a bipartisan fashion on this…

I rise today to join my colleagues in congratulating Senator Barbara Mikulski from Maryland on becoming the longest-serving woman in the history of Congress. Senator Mikulski has thus reinforced her distinctive mark on this institution and…

I think it's much too, much too soon to give up five of these detainees.

a military in a democracy can be winning a war on the battlefield and lose it on the political battlefield at home.

These are the worst of the worst. These five have the blood of Americans and our allies on their hands.

You mentioned the counterproductive role played in different ways by two of the neighbors, Pakistan and Iran, noting that the Taliban operates 'with impunity' in Pakistan and that 'Iran continues to support the insurgency and fan the…

though the Afghan security forces will be taking the lead in combat in Afghanistan, that doesn't necessarily mean that we can precipitously cut our troop presence.

Can you conceive of any way we could convince the Pakistanis to take more aggressive action to close down those safe havens or to give us the opportunity to do so with them?

The only calendar that matters to the fight in Afghanistan and to you, of course, is the calendar on the ground there.

It seems so logical to me.

Frankly, I don't know how Secretary Panetta could ever certify that these five would not be recidivists.

I think the reaction that I hear from the committee members is generally one of support, that we're doing well militarily, this is a situation that we've invested a lot of life and treasure into over a period of time, and it is winnable if…

the United States is not going to make the same mistake that we made in 1989.