Roland Burris: “I want to commend you on your position with 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'”

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…

Have our personnel received adequate training?

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

Let us not abandon those men and women.