it is a safe assumption that Congress is not going to appropriate $200 million to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City.

I cannot imagine a better person for the President to have nominated than Sandy Blitz to be the first Federal Cochair of the Northern Border Regional Commission.

Chairman Boxer, Senator Inhofe, and members of the committee, I am delighted to testify today on behalf of Sandy Blitz.

I am pleased and proud to join my senior colleague from Maine, Senator Snowe, in offering him my strong support.

the law granting the Federal Government, for the first time, the authority to regulate the security of the nation's highest risk chemical facilities is due to expire at the end of this fiscal year. Given the success of this law and its…

Are you aware of any impact on combat effectiveness by the decision of our NATO allies to allow gays and lesbians to serve openly?

You have said strongly and repeatedly that you view 313 ships as the minimum for our fleet.

I would encourage you to take a close look at that approach, which has been used successfully in the past.

I support the change in direction.

6 years ago this week, at a hearing before the Personnel Subcommittee, you and I had a discussion about the problem of sexual assaults in the military.

I want to associate myself with the comments made by the Senator from Hawaii about the importance of our public shipyards.

Although the President's fiscal year 2011 budget includes slight increases in MILCON and SRM funding, I remain concerned about the material condition of Navy shipyards.

I just want to pledge to work with you to make sure that you have the funding needed.

I view this as creating more opportunity for women in the Navy to go through the ranks.

I'm very concerned about whether adequate resources are going to be invested so that we can respond effectively to a weapon of mass destruction.

I guess my concern is if you have the two current shipbuilders each building 10 ships...

General Petraeus, you testified that no captured terrorists in your AOR have been sent for detention in Guantanamo during the last 18 months.

I know, from our discussions, that you also share my concern about the enormous increase in suicides in the Army.

I want to bring up an issue that is an increasing problem in my State, and that is the problem of drug trafficking across the northern border.

I want to associate myself with the comments that Senator Lieberman made about the change and the new teams.

Iran continues to fund, train, equip, and give some direction to residual Shia militias and extremist elements in Iraq.

I am pleased to be a cosponsor, in fact an original cosponsor, of what is called the Federal Agency Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2009.

I rise today in support of the amendment offered by Senators Conrad and Gregg to create a bipartisan budget commission to address our Nation's long-term fiscal crisis. The Conrad-Gregg amendment would create an 18-member bipartisan…

But today, Mr. President, I rise to discuss an error that was made after that foreign terrorist had already been detained by American authorities in Detroit, an error that may well have prevented the collection of valuable intelligence…

If I could just respond as well.