I hope one of the elements you are going to look at is, number one, how do we maintain those elements of redundancy.

The question in my mind is who drives us to the point that it becomes the standard operating procedure, and that is where I am concerned for the task force.

I do hope that you will work with us on both looking at the legislative elements of this that may be necessary to get us to the point of being better prepared for any future storm.

money is beginning to flow, when people are looking at nearly a year after the storm and money is beginning to flow, it speaks why we need to find a process that is safe and secure in terms of making sure that there is not fraud, but by…

I still hear it today, nearly a year later, and I think Senator Schumer may as well back in New York, as well as others, that we still have people finding the challenges of getting access to these resources to be able to rebuild their…

I am concerned. I hear what you are going to do as the follow-on to the task force.

I hope we have crossed the Rubicon. I am never sure we have crossed the Rubicon until we cross it.

we come to this Chamber as we have many times before--to make one of the most difficult decisions we are tasked to make: the authorization of the use of American military power--this time in Syria, to respond to the horrific attack…

It is our role as representatives of the American people to make it, to put aside political differences and personal ideologies.

The consequences of inaction are greater and graver still: Further humanitarian disaster in Syria, regional instability, the loss of American credibility around the world.

I support the President's decision to use military force in the face of this horrific crime against humanity.

I rise to speak on behalf of Samantha Power's nomination to be the Ambassador to the United Nations. As I said in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which I chaired, on Ms. Power, her appointment as Ambassador to the United Nations…