Roland Burris: “Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen, please explain how the mission to provide defense support to civil authorities is…”

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…

Thanks to the same old political games.

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.