But how do you reconcile that with, we will begin to assess it?

So you could then withdraw one battalion or a squadron can go home and say, 'well, now we've started our withdrawal,' and then we halt it to see because we don't know what the conditions are?

Thanks to the same old political games.

Although we do not always agree, as the debate on this floor will often show, I am always struck by the passion that drives each and every Senator to stand in this singular place in the world and to speak their mind. It is this passion…

Thank you, Madam President. I wish to extend a special word of gratitude to my old friend who is sitting right there, the Sergeant at Arms, Terry Gainer; the Secretary of the Senate, Nancy Erickson; the secretary for the majority--where…

We have to stop putting everything out in the--I am sorry.

We cannot have disgruntled TSA personnel trying to protect us on these flights.

I do not have much longer in the Senate, but we ought to look at these private contractors.

Because those packages were headed to synagogues allegedly in Chicago.

Please take care of the TSA personnel. Some of them do not have health insurance. Some of them are working part-time.

Have our personnel received adequate training?