Carl Levin

I thank you for your personal interest in ensuring that these suicides were fully investigated and that measures are taken to prevent additional suicides in the high-stress recruiting field.

These increases are not acceptable! We must improve our suicide prevention efforts to reverse the number of servicemembers taking their own lives.

Thank you, Senator Nelson.

What has changed that caused this spike?

Senator Levin and Senator McCain, you both asked me about that and I look forward to going over that with you.

The Iraqi Government must still enact important legislation to achieve meaningful and lasting political reconciliation and stability.

I have doubts, however, as to whether Pakistan has the will or the capacity to make significant changes in the near term.

The situation in Afghanistan has been deteriorating for several years and is now a serious problem.

This committee has a special responsibility to the men and women of our Armed Forces to be vigilant on intelligence programs.

But they are supposed to notify--they are supposed to pay taxes on those revenues, are they not?

I know that his heart is exactly in making sure that we do not lose revenues to these offshore secrecy jurisdictions.

Needless to say, we and I hope most of the rest of the world that loses tax revenues to your secrecy policies will come together and jointly determine to end those policies.

Well, is it your understanding--I mean, this is based on the documents that you folks have signed.

Did you understand from that document, which is UBS' own memo, that Baker & McKenzie was telling you that you could do indirectly and knowingly what you could not do directly?

I have made reference to a UBS memo, and it is on a chart which says that, 'In the case where the U.S. person holds his U.S. investments directly, we have been advised by Baker & McKenzie that we cannot recommend products . . . to our…

The last discussion I have heard is a unilateral statement on the part of the President of Switzerland or the head of the banking industry in Switzerland saying that you are going to continue Swiss secrecy.

You have entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the United States in which it admitted facts, the bank, that related to past conduct, accepted responsibility for a violation of U.S. law, paid a $780 million fine, and turned…

And that your private bankers and managers knew or should have known that the purpose of that referral to the outside advisers was to create the sham corporations.

I want to know whether or not you will require that U.S. citizens who are not residents of the United States but are citizens that they take steps to notify the IRS of that revenue.

Our estimate is about 17,000 of those accounts, using your numbers or your figures, are held by clients that are American citizens who do not live in the United States.

That is a pretty high bar between the requirement for specific names and proof of affirmative deceptive acts, the way the Swiss define it.

Did Baker & McKenzie tell you you could go to an adviser who would recommend the creation of a sham corporation?

Why is there only 12 when you have acknowledged in this statement, this joint statement, that you have helped to hide thousands of accounts from the IRS?

Why won't you give us the names of the people with whom you schemed to commit violations of American law?

Why would it take me four questions to get you to just say 'yes, we have acknowledged that,' instead of wrapping it around generalities?