Saxby Chambliss

Ms. James, within 180 days, will you establish a Service-wide directive where awards made under FAR 6.302 Exception 3 are not subject to local Small Business office review for approval and allocation to small business contracting quotas if…

Ms. James, if confirmed, will you and your Small Business Programs office, in the next 90 days, work directly with my staff to craft a solution that ensures the Air Force will actively enforce the intent of FAR 6.302 Exceptions 3 so that…

I am concerned that often the requirement to reach a small business percentage goal outweighs the requirement to produce the most effective products and services for our warfighters.

I applaud that move. I think that is something that has to be done.

The system is broken.

I intend to continue the ongoing efforts to adapt and refine EUCOM forces and alert postures.

The UCMJ is one of the things that makes the U.S. military great.

AFRICOM receives only about 7 percent of its total ISR requirements.

The President has stated the United States cannot and will not allow Iran to develop or acquire nuclear weapons.

There must be a red line drawn prior to Iran acquiring this capability.

Iran is the number one terrorist sponsoring state in the world.

Through the Chair, if I could ask the Senator from Oregon, is the Senator talking 15 minutes on his amendment and 15 minutes on passage? Fifteen minutes on each, on your amendment and vote on it and go to final passage?

I appreciate the comments of the leader. I think the chairman and I--and I assume those who have amendments that will be remaining, I guess one amendment remaining and then final passage. If we could complete debate tonight, we would be…

What concerns him is that she said, in that same interview, that al Qaeda has been decimated by the Obama administration.

I rise to state the Senate's lack of leadership in addressing sequestration will have long-term effects on our Nation's robust intelligence community which had to be rebuilt after 9/11. These budget cuts will make it very difficult for the…

I especially want to thank my co-chair of the Reserve Caucus, Senator Saxby Chambliss, for his support of the Service Member Employment Protection Act.

We should always strive to prevent the award of contracts to vendors who have engaged in misconduct by failing to honor their legal obligations.

It is only fair that we expand this definition to protect our returning veterans while seeking medical treatment for injuries obtained in the line of duty.

I believe this legislation provides reasonable and necessary changes to USERRA.

The well-known 50/50 statute is codified in title 10, U.S.C., section 2466.

Family programs are being short-changed

I am really offended that there would be some conversation about releasing five of the meanest, nastiest killers in the world to the Taliban.

Personally, I am offended by any negotiations with terrorists who are killing our men and women.

The Secretary of Defense recently endorsed the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 introduced into the Senate by Senators Lieberman, Collins, Feinstein, and Rockefeller.

Given supply-chain challenges and the fact that many components are provided by foreign commercial sources, is it possible that some components of our cyber defenses may contain components from less than fully trusted sources?