I am a firm believer in contracts and dates. As it is the rule of law, we have a date.

This is not a weeks or months long process. It is a year's long process.

We all know about the $6 billion that has been spent and fewer than 12 percent of the country's police are capable of operating on their own.

What does that mean? To me it means obviously dollars that cannot be spent here in the United States for services and other things that we come to know and expect.

So $11.6 billion is to basically uplift the police and army in Afghanistan.

I would encourage the Administration to strongly encourage them to do what they said they would do.

I rise as a result of the resolution offered earlier today commemorating the tragic deaths of so many Polish leaders, especially the death of Tomasz Merta, who is the Minister of Culture in Poland. I worked with Tomasz Merta a couple times…

How do we change from quantity to quality to get the value for our dollars?

Does it make sense to have a national police force that basically the tribal leaders do not recognize, they do not know.

How much is it going to cost? I mean what is the number that the American people are ultimately going to be responsible for?

There is simply no reason this shouldn't be bipartisan--this extension of unemployment benefits. It is not solving all our Nation's problems, but it certainly stimulates the economy. It is the best use of public dollars to help the economy…

I don't believe that Iran takes us seriously when it comes to demanding full disclosure with regard to their nuclear capabilities.

I'm concerned that every day that we delay is another day that they have to get closer to the capability to export terrorism around the region and the world.

I would like to associate myself with the remarks of Senator Kerry. We share an interest in providing appropriate accommodation for spiritual and religious care in a reformed health insurance market. No American should be left worse off as…

In 1991, working for Ohio State University, I spent some time in Poland working with their government to transition from communism to democracy. And my friend Tomaz, who is a Polish academician, later rose to be the Minister of Culture in…

I thank the Senator for his assistance and look forward to working with him and Senator Kerry to ensure that appropriate protections for spiritual care are provided as health reform is implemented.

It really comes down to the money; without money and without the refining products that they need to survive, they're not going to do anything.

I've always been a strong believer that competition is good.

I want to state that I do have those concerns, and I'm doing everything and anything I can to find out more.

How do I justify supporting a program that's over budget and not on time, versus a plan that's on budget?

I have been everywhere from Marietta to Cleveland to Toledo to Defiance to Youngstown to Columbus to Dayton--all over my State. There are a lot of things I hear. Of course there is a lot of pain. There are a lot of people who are looking…

The VA is an amazing institution that gives and makes fewer medical errors than any other facility and any other medical group in the country.

Why can't we, with technology, why can't we correspond with virtually every veteran?

But we're not doing any kind of systemic outreach to the Korean War veteran that never goes to the VA.

One of the problems, whether it's in Jefferson County or Noble County or Richland County, where I grew up, is to get benefits to veterans.