recognizing that the Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capability Fund provides the Government of Pakistan with critical goods that are manufactured here in the United States, what is the status of DOD's certification of Pakistan's…

Maintaining this leadership in the future will require that DOD identify and communicate what it needs to counter future military threats.

I called up my amendment last week. This amendment would prohibit TSA employees from entering into collective bargaining agreements. A lot has happened since I called up my amendment. The Transportation Security Administrator announced his…

this amendment deals with the notion of collective bargaining by TSA employees. The Transportation Security Administration was formed approximately 10 years ago by the Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001, Public Law 107-71…

With regard to the situation that we intend to have after January 1, 2012, is there majority support for that?

Based on that, the information you have is that a substantial majority of the Iraqi people would like the United States to continue with a security presence there absent the military; is that correct?

I rise today in support of the McConnell amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill. What we have this afternoon actually is an opportunity to show the American people that we are listening to them. The American people want the ObamaCare…

Our Federal deficit is already at an unsustainable level, and most Americans understand that we can ill afford another entitlement program that adds substantially to it. But our recent health reform has created a situation where there are…

By kicking the can down the road now to 2011 there is a real risk, Mr. Chairman, that the acquisition for major projects such as this, will always be called into question.

I thought the criteria should be what's best for the U.S. Air Force, what's best for the fighting men and women who are going to depend on this, and what's best for national security.

I am speaking today on a very important international foreign policy issue. That will be the subject of my address today. I wanted to come down here the first day of this legislative session, this 112th Congress, and talk about the…

It seems to me we have a very simple way to address those concerns. Let me reiterate to my colleagues the quote of Mr. Hadley: The Bilateral Consultative Commission seems to have been given authority to adopt without Senate review measures…

The fax sheet mentions on more than one occasion that changes adopted by the BCC cannot affect substantive rights or obligations. It says under background: ``The New START treaty authorizes the parties to use the Bilateral Consultative…

I rise this evening to offer another amendment to the resolution of ratification. This amendment rises out of concerns over the Bilateral Consultative Commission known as the BCC. The BCC has been referred to numerous times in debate…

America had an election on November 2. Let me begin by reminding my colleagues that the American people spoke loudly and clearly in November and chose a far different team to serve in Washington. A vastly different leadership will soon…

I rise today to discuss the debt default of the Republic of Argentina. Since it defaulted on its debt 9 years ago, the nation has ignored the judgments of American courts even though Argentina committed to honor such judgments when the…

I join my colleague from Georgia in commending the membership of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, and particularly the leaders of this group, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson--great patriots, people with a great…

Well, the Senator is absolutely correct. And this coming from the New York Times in particular, this article is an astounding bit of information for the American people, and they need to know about it. I think the American people have the…

This was an unpopular piece of legislation when we were considering it. We wasted most of a year when we should have been talking about job creation and the economy, talking about the overhaul of our entire health care system with the…

If I might add, this is really a new chapter in the history of the American Federal Government. According to the senior vice president of the American Benefits Council: There has never been a period like what we are going through now, in…

in June of this year, I joined my friend and colleague, Senator Ben Cardin, on the Senate floor to discuss an issue of great concern to both of us and to many Americans and to many advocates of freedom and the rule of law internationally…

The Debt Commission report yesterday that should trouble every American and every policymaker.

There is a hue and cry from the public for us to do something about that.

The CPSC is a small agency with a large but important mission: to regulate more than 15,000 consumer products, keeping the public safe from preventable injuries and deaths caused by unsafe and defective products.

How soon could you provide that list, Ms. Tenenbaum?