Saxby Chambliss

I believe that public-private partnerships provide great synergy between the government and industry and represent a great capability to provide extended depot maintenance for our military hardware.

We simply don't have enough airlift.

Strategic airlift has been absolutely central to our success in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past 3 years.

DOD has contracted with the Russians to use AN-124 aircraft for strategic airlift.

It's unclear if they actually will, however the fact they say they are going to is troubling.

Secretary Rumsfeld, our Guard and Reserve members have done a great job over the last several years and have played a major role in military operations overseas and at home.

I believe this issue is absolutely central to the future of our Armed Forces.

I applaud your recent decision to float up the Army end strength over the next several years

I am concerned as I know you are about retention and morale among our troops, particularly those who continue to be deployed overseas for long periods of time.

I want to make sure that you are satisfied that this weight issue on the Joint Strike Fighter is not something that is going to delay that.

As we go through this budget process, we want to make sure that we pass a budget that is reflective of the great work that they are doing.

I note with very much approval that you have 24 F-22s funded in this authorization proposal.

I want to talk quickly, in the remaining time we have, about two of the nominees. I had the opportunity to visit this afternoon with the Honorable Janice Rogers Brown, who is a justice on the Supreme Court of California, whom the President…

I say to my colleagues that if they will give us an up-or-down vote on all of these nominees, as they have done in every other instance and as the Senate has done for every other President of the United States, there is a lot of work we…

What an injustice to an individual is being carried out with respect to the filibuster of the nomination of Judge Charles Pickering to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. It has been said by his critics on the other side of the aisle--and…

The fact is, the Constitution of the United States must be complied with 100 percent of the time. Ninety-eight percent of the time is not good in that particular instance. If I told my wife that I was faithful 98 percent of the time…

I noticed my friend, the Senator from New York, for whom I have great respect, made a comparison between a hold and a filibuster but yet at the same time he has shown this chart over and over again, showing where we have 168 approved and…

My intention, with the Chairman's approval, of course, would be to move the funding designated for the Alliance for Food Protection project to the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service Integrated Fruit and Vegetable…

I join with the now-junior Senator from Florida--a border State with Georgia--soon to be senior Senator, in commending the now-senior Senator from Florida, Bob Graham. I, too, saw his announcement yesterday. Senator Graham and I have had…

I continue to support my President. I support his request for $87 billion in funding for Iraq. The only thing I disagree with the administration about is how we structure that funding. None of us disagrees about the fact that we need the…

Implementing a training mission at Fort Gordon would provide our country with the necessary combination of diverse military and civilian assets to better prepare us in the future from any threats to our national security. It is extremely…

Not only is it true that Atlanta is the largest city in the South, with the busiest airport in the nation as defined by the largest volume of air carriers in the industry and home of the CDC and the U.S. Army Forces Command headquarters…

I express my support for the allocation of funds from the discretionary grants program to high-threat urban areas, including the city of Atlanta. Atlanta was not recognized by the Department of Homeland Security as a high-threat urban area…

As my colleague from Alaska has suggested, the APTO has entered a public-private collaborative project with the Southern Hydrogen Fuel Cell Research Partnership, which has then entered into a further agreement with the Georgia Tech…

I am very pleased that this week, as well as all of next week, we will be debating this issue regarding the inclusion of a prescription drug benefit within Medicare and the overall improvement of Medicare. I am also very pleased that the…