How can you deploy those forces in a way that you're meeting these expanding threats?

When we pull out of Afghanistan, do you feel confident that you can keep enough SOF in the area so that if, for example, something happened that we had to go back in, that we can do it on a quick turnaround and get back in?

the absence of one will make things significantly more difficult to conduct the counterterrorism operations that SOCOM and CENTCOM work in conjunction with the interagency.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 9 a.m. today, Tuesday, March 11, 2014; that following the prayer and the pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of…

Mr. President, at 11:30 a.m. there will be a series of four cloture votes on the Leitman, Levy, Michelson, and Parker nominations, all to be district judges for the Eastern District of Michigan. ____________________

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 8:54 a.m., adjourned until Tuesday, March 11, 2014, at 9…

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Mr. President, I rise today on the anniversary of Bob Levinson's disappearance from Kish Island off the coast of Iran. March 9 will mark 7 excruciating years of waiting and wondering for Bob's family who have desperately sought assistance…

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty so it makes it an opportune time to discuss and consider both the gains that we have made and the challenges that remain.

I hope you will extend, on behalf of the committee, our gratitude to the men and women of the Air Force and their families for the many sacrifices that they have made on our behalf.

Over the past 13 years, Air Force personnel and equipment have played a key role in support of our national security goals in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere around the world.