Jack Reed

One of the consequences of this severe financial crisis is more than 30 States have borrowed up to $35 billion from the Federal Government to continue paying their regular unemployment compensation benefits.

Rhode Island faces the Nation's third highest unemployment rate at 12.7 percent and a recession that hit earlier than any other State.

Do you feel confident that you'll be able to give your uninhibited advice to both the Secretary of Defense and the President before they make any final decision?

In my view, there's some demagoguery going on over here on this issue.

I'm not really sure what utility changing this name would bring about.

Thank you for your devoted service to the Marine Corps and to the Nation.

Our role there is to make sure that sovereignty is not destroyed by a extreme group, the Taliban.

It's not just our mission, it's their mission, which we're helping them to succeed with.

Their lives are on the line whenever they do that.

Violence and progress coexist in Afghanistan, and sometimes the violence blinds us to the progress.

This is not a strictly, indeed, perhaps even most importantly, a military operation; it's a combined military-civilian operation.

That transition point is not a withdrawal, but it is a transition to a different mission.

Senator Reed, we are on the right track now.

The enemy is not monolithic, and we have to adapt to how the enemy has adapted, but, yes, sir.

There's no doubt in my mind it is, sir.

It's a moral imperative that we use everything we have to ensure that they get out of it.

I think we met about 40 years ago and in the intervening 40 years he has acquitted himself magnificently as a soldier.

I am deeply concerned about the proposed $2 billion cut in the LIHEAP block grant, which represents a $13.6 million reduction in funding for the State of Rhode Island.

We have a challenge of modernizing our nuclear stockpile in both deployed and stockpile weapons, et cetera.

Do you believe civil affairs-type outreach in non-combat environments like Africa and Latin America is better suited to civilian agencies, or do you believe the military's outreach is an essential piece of winning hearts and minds?

Yemen and Somalia are often referred to as failing or failed states.

One of the common criticisms of indirect CVE missions, such as the media campaigns and civil affairs projects, is that the effectiveness of the activity is difficult to measure...

How do you believe we should ensure that there is adequate coordination between DOD, DOS, and USAID

One of the aspects of our response to these threats is the coordination between agencies of the government.

Do you agree that we must leverage the ability of States, institutions, businesses, and philanthropic organizations to partner together and provide necessary aid and support for students?