we are going to vote on Judge Jordan, a Cuban-American Federal district judge, who has been named by the President to go to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Jordan came out of the Judiciary Committee unanimously. As Senator…

programs like RMAP are critical to rural America, small businesses that make up 90 percent of all rural businesses.

if we do not broaden the base for feedstocks, it is going to be nearly impossible to reach the 36 billion gallons requirement by 2022.

I have a number of concerns about our presence in Iraq at the current time. I don't think that I have a clear understanding of what our mission is there.

It is designed and intended to defend against the existing growing threat from Iranian ballistic missiles to Europe and other possibilities as well.

The new U.S. national strategy, as has been indicated, calls for the increase in our presence and involvement, more involvement in the Asia-Pacific region.

We ought not to be looking at senior partners-junior partners when it comes to the expenditures or the requirements.

But sometimes you have to make the ask or you don't get the offer.

I hope that you'll take a very, very close look at this, whether it's the Council of Governors or just in general, to be sure that we're moving in the right direction.

Our new national strategy calls for an increase in our presence.

Reserving the right to object, and obviously I am not going to object, but I want to say to the Senate that this is an example--89 to 5--that debate has been cut off on a nomination that has the bipartisan support of Senator Rubio and…

To oversimplify, but to put in layman terms, it's pretty hard to fight in cyber space, cyber and space commands, with drop cords.