I would further ask to be recognized as if in morning business. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

We are back. Tonight, I understand, the Presiding Officer and I will be sitting together at the State of the Union event, which I am pleased to do. It is always a historic and seminal moment in our legislative process when the President of…

this morning it was announced that the former officers of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are going to be prosecuted, or cases have been filed, for their misrepresentation of the liabilities that both of those institutions posed to the American…

I ask unanimous consent that immediately following my remarks, the Senator from Ohio, Mr. Brown, be recognized. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

In your testimony, you talked about a lack of functioning authority in a good area of the DRC.

Were any of the 100 advisors that the President sent to Uganda positioned also in the DRC?

If I was producing a product and I was regulated by a government entity and I had competitors, I'd sure come to the Government rather than the competitor to give me advice...

This is a preeminent issue in my State of Georgia.

I would encourage you and Secretary Clinton, in whatever way is appropriate given security, national security, and also the security of those personnel, to have a periodic reporting back to us over the progress of what they are doing in…

I personally acknowledge that and appreciate it very much.

I was thinking, as I heard his opening statement, he and I traveled to Nigeria earlier this year where they had just completed their first really successful democratic election with the election of Goodluck Jonathan.

One of the things that they used, which was impressive to both of us, is cell technology to communicate from the polling place.