I hope you will keep us posted on that.

I think you are doing the right thing.

In this coming budgetary round, if you feel you need more funding support for research and development or grant programs to develop better technology for screening, please do not hesitate to ask us.

I rise today to introduce the Race to the Top Act of 2010. Congressman Jared Polis is introducing companion legislation in the House today. The Race to the Top Act will authorize the continuation of the highly successful Race to the Top…

I hope that it's now systemic in the thinking within DOD, as well as in the branches of the military, to think in terms of jointness and reduction of stovepipe.

if under the insourcing review DOD determines that a function would more appropriately be performed by Federal employees, or that DOD could achieve savings by insourcing, how does a workforce freeze make sense?

Thanks, to Secretary Gates, for initiating this series of moves, which I support.

I'd like to ask about your efforts to reduce the Department's reliance on services contracts.

We must see the disparate attacks and the changing tactics for what they are, separate parts of a more dangerous pattern.

The extent of the threat really depends a lot on what is happening in places far away.

I was thinking as I was listening in the most simplistic terms, we are in a fight that we did not start. But now that we are in it, we are damn sure not going to lose it.

I rise to speak in favor, of course, of the cloture motion and of taking up the National Defense Authorization Act. This is critically important legislation. I know the debate has been mostly about a couple of parts of it or one amendment…

I rise to oppose the filibuster of the National Defense Authorization Act and to say what is obvious--that this is a preelection campaign season. There are a lot of politics, partisan politics swirling around, everything going on here…

At some point, we are going to come to a vote on the bill and on don't ask, don't tell. I believe a majority of my colleagues in this Chamber--maybe more than that--are going to do what we need to do, which is to repeal don't ask, don't…

the war against terrorism, Islamist terrorism, is a war of ideas and values, because underneath all these brutal acts, there is an ideology, an extreme theology that is totally inconsistent with our values.

But it is clear to you that your authority is recognized that as across the government.

There remains no Federal Government agency or department specifically charged with identifying radicalization and interdicting the recruitment of U.S. citizens or residents for terrorism.

I think we have seen, since September 11, 2001, Muslim-American mainstream communities condemn terrorism and al-Qaeda.

We must redouble our efforts to better anticipate, analyze and prepare.

the FBI's No. 1 priority continues to be the prevention of terrorist attacks against the United States.

I am pleased to join with Senators Collins, Akaka, and Voinovich today to introduce the bipartisan SECURE Facilities Act of 2010--legislation that would modernize and reform an important but often overlooked agency within the Department of…

I agree. I referenced the letter that Vice President Biden sent, actually on behalf of himself, Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

I wanted to say that I've been impressed by the degree of trilateral cooperation between the United States, South Korea, and Japan in the wake of the Cheonan attack.

Ultimately, this does require leadership, and leadership that puts the national interest first.

the Administration's support for bringing the recommendations of the Commission up for a vote in this Congress.