Joe Donnelly

I am here to talk about the importance of a bipartisan, commonsense, 5-year farm bill to Indiana's agriculture and rural communities as well as our entire country. This bill, passed with bipartisan support in the Agriculture Committee…

today I rise to recognize and honor the extraordinary service and ultimate sacrifice of SGT Tristan Mykal Wade, of Indianapolis, IN. Sergeant Wade was serving in the U.S. Army, assigned to the 573rd Clearance Company at White Sands Missile…

Thank you for the opportunity to submit a statement on behalf of S. 832, the Improving the Lives of Children with Spina Bifida Act of 2013.

I look forward to working with my colleagues to see this important legislation enacted into law.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. (The remarks of Mr. Donnelly pertaining to the introduction of S. 810 are located in today's Record under…

I wish to take time to speak about an important issue that needs immediate attention, suicide among our servicemembers and veterans. Last year, we lost more servicemen and women to suicide than we lost in combat in Afghanistan. In 2012…

one of the best parts about this job is getting the chance to talk to Hoosiers here in Washington, back home in Indiana, and, on those special occasions, a chance to see our Hoosiers when they are serving our country overseas. When I was…

I am a little biased, but absolutely.

Is the most important thing we can do to continue with the research funding?

A very timely question.

Is the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) buying into this effort to try to work and clean up the frontier areas as well?

As to sanctions on both countries, are those sanctions working or are you seeing them having an effect?

As you look at Afghanistan, in the border areas and just across in Pakistan, and especially in the frontier provinces, those areas, once the Taliban goes in there, is there any pressure from the Pakistan army or any efforts on the part of…

I am here to try to make sure that this is made right because what was done is not.

This is something that has just come up in the last day or so, but it has been talked about that Russia may send S-300 missile systems to Syria.

We're concerned about what North Korea will do. We're obviously concerned about the degree of predictability that the leader from North Korea has demonstrated or lack of predictability.

With U.N. sanctions that have been in place on North Korea, do you see that North Korea continues to make gains in their missile systems?

Do we feel confident that all of our friends and allies will be protected as well by the missile defense shield that we've put in place?

This off-ramp has been extraordinary painful to them, to their families.

We have no objection in Indiana to doing our share, to taking our share of the hit, but this is over and above what took place.

It is time for us to show that in this case.

With the east coast ballistic missile defense system, can you give us an update on the status of site selection for that?

It is absolutely clear to the Afghans that we will not leave our men and women there without appropriate SOFA in the context of the BSA.

My sense is that the Afghanistan people as a whole want the BSA, so I am optimistic that we will get it signed at some point.

We have to have zero tolerance.