I thank the Presiding Officer and the chairman. For the first time as a nation, we are recognizing that people have a right to not be destroyed by sickness. Under the Senate bill passed by the House and signed into law yesterday by the…

Mr. President, I rise today in support of two amendments, S.A. 3574 and S.A. 3575, offered by the junior senator from Florida. I am concerned the student loan reforms in the bill will lead to a substantial loss of jobs in my State. That is…

I think Africa Command in its uniquely interagency composition is in a posture to contribute to countering that effort.

Each leg of the triad has advantages that warrant retaining all three legs.

There is a connection between Venezuela and Iran.

I would encourage you to, as one of your first things that you do, which I encouraged General Chilton to do the same thing, and I think he would reaffirm that this is good advice: Go visit the three national labs.

I think it's important that we sustain the legs that we have today.

I'm very concerned that Hugo Chavez is going to play by the same playbook as Ahmadinejad.

General Ham, we have a problem of drugs going into West Africa and then it just goes right on up to Europe.

The military means a lot to Florida, and Floridians love the military.

I think the way in which AFRICOM could probably bring military assets to bear are in maritime domain awareness.