this Saturday, November 19, marks the 148 Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. In this address, President Abraham Lincoln famously said, ``The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they…

I ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Amendments Nos. 1215, 1139, and 1140

These are hard issues.

What are you doing about recruiting and staff retaining?

I would like to know what direction you are heading in, and what FDA is doing to make an investment in its reviewers?

We've heard a lot about this in Pennsylvania, so I appreciate your answers.

I do not know if any of our colleagues have more questions, but I just have one comment.

Mr. Assad must step down from power.

I had teamed up with Senator DeMint to call for these sanctions.

Let me just say for the record before we go that the record will be kept open for 1 week for members of the committee.

Turkey is providing some space for the opposition forces to meet to discuss, to try to lay out a vision.

I would suggest to the administration to make sure that an answer is forthcoming, whether it comes from the Commerce Department or from whatever agency the answer would emanate.

It is as if, with the other subjects we have talked about--it is worth remembering where we were not very long ago and where we are today, which helps gives us the sense of inevitability that basically Bashar is finished.

It is incredibly courageous what these Syrian opposition figures--the protesters--are doing every day.

The opposition's ability to come together, because of the Turkish facilitation, is a tremendous accomplishment.

Our advice is to President Assad is that he leave now.

I think the fact that the Arab League has now made an attempt that he seems to be kind of thumbing his nose at--for lack of a better description--

What we have to say to President Assad can be summed up very briefly: step aside and allow your people to begin the peaceful, orderly transition from authoritarianism to democracy.

There is the risk to the freedoms and liberties of the people in the country and the danger to the rest of the world if these countries turn into some facsimile of Iran.

We have an extraordinary opportunity--we and the world--to take this historic moment and nudge it, push it, do whatever we can to have it move in the right direction of a flowering of democracy.

The Subcommittees, under the leadership of Senators Casey and Boxer, are to be commended, as is the U.S. Department of State, for their consistent focus on women's rights.

What is the best thing we can do here in the United States?

Can you assess what the Arab Spring means to women in a broad sense?

I think that breaking the sense of isolation, especially in places like Libya, that many of these women have suffered from over many years is perhaps one of the most important contributions we can make.

I rise for literally 30 seconds, because I failed, when talking about both the Mariani and Hornak nominations, to thank Senator Toomey, my colleague from Pennsylvania. We worked together on both these nominees to arrive at a consensus…