You acknowledge responsibility for protecting our process.

He is, though, a cost-benefit analyzer.

If you are confirmed, each of you will have a critical role in advancing U.S. foreign policy and objectives in your respective posts abroad to which you have been nominated.

If we want to pass it and turn it into law there are changes we will need to make.

I do not want to see a shooting war, because it would be catastrophic for the world.

I will be brief in closing. I note that the manager of this needs to get through some things to get to our vote. There are three quick points I want to make. The first thing is that the Chinese have learned how to work our system and how…

may I inquire how much time I have remaining? The PRESIDING OFFICER. There are 10 minutes.

I am now halfway through my eighth year in the U.S. Senate, and in my time here, I have never once spoken against, voted against, or opposed in any way any of the National Defense Authorization Acts that have come before the Senate. The…

I yield time to the Senator from Maryland. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maryland.

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