Jeanne Shaheen

I think there's--I certainly believe that there's been some success with that and with air defenses.

It's still not clear to me how we do that.

There has to be a negotiated end to this conflict.

The more we appear to take sides with Russia and Iran, the more difficult it becomes to get a resolution with those people who have been our friends in the Middle East.

I would point out that, as you said, I was one of the people who introduced that legislation in August 2012 that would have allowed subpoena power for SIGAR.

I think that this is not the proper role for DOD.

I thank all three of my colleagues on the Foreign Relations Committee. I will close and yield back to Senator Coons with saying that I would hope that one of the things we would all agree to, as Senator Murphy has said, is that regardless…

Would my colleague yield for another question briefly? I didn't give the date that Adam Szubin was nominated, and he has been before the banking committee. Does the Senator have that information to share with everybody?

Thank you, Senator Inhofe. I will be brief. Mr. President, I think it is important to challenge the provision in this legislation. I support the highway bill. I think the negotiators did a great job to get us a 5-year bill, but the fact is…

Is there anybody who disagrees that that program should be made permanent?

I want to agree with the point that everybody has made about how we attract good people into work for the government.

It's an important lesson in the importance of innovation.

I think we need to start right now in order to get that done.

We are. We share that. The fact is, this is a bipartisan issue. As my colleague points out, the United States brokered that historic agreement in Dayton. We were the only country that could really take that leadership, and we need to…

I thank my colleague. As you point out, we represent two very different parts of the country.

If we are going to have an impact, we have got to look at how we get into the grassroots and get into those young people.

We have to get serious about this and probably spend something commensurate with what our enemies spend.

I think they are spending about $1.4 billion on that effort.

When you are making allocation decisions, are those linked to national security priorities in the country?

Do we have the capacity with the structures that we have set up to do what we need to do in the future?

It is always a woman who is spearheading and leading the delegation.

When you talk about 'there are lots of reasons,' how do we determine what those reasons are?

I wonder if you could talk a little bit about the role of women in Tunisia and compare that to, say, Morocco and Algeria, and what we can do to support a positive role for women in those societies.

Is there a reason why those societies have served as fertile recruiting grounds?

The way to do that is through network--organic networking that individuals are doing in theater.