Jack Reed

Recall too, the history of 2001. We didn't defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan through total overwhelming firepower.

The FMF program is a critical tool for executing our foreign policy; it is key to improving bilateral relationships.

Proper coordination and concurrence procedures ensure that urgent security capacity building requirements do not undermine the United States' overarching foreign policy priorities.

DOD has an advantage over DOS in providing certain capacity-building assistance, such as building the operational capacity of partner nations.

They are dealing with an uphill battle with a longstanding oppressive regime that makes little distinctions about attacking civilians.

Do you believe there should be more emphasis on building the capacity of our partner's national law enforcement entities?

The Taliban is really right now--here we are in April--feeling what the summer's going to look like and it's not going to be a pleasant summer.

The information domain is global in scope and our enemies will attempt to use this domain to achieve a comparative advantage.

It's a little bit easier to talk open here, just based on my own experience and assessment.

I think the signals you're seeing of reintegration, reconciliation movements within these populations of Taliban is exactly the effect that we intend to create.

I urge you, as Senator Shelby did, to keep your focus on that issue.

I hope we can have this conversation many more times as we go forth and bring forth science and data on these issues. The operation, when it originally comes in and the development of the well site does require some industrial-type…

On the chart that we have here this evening, what we are talking about is that hydraulic fluid is pumped into the horizontal area. Primarily that water is hitting that area, and it is then coming back up the well bore to a certain extent…

That's one of the great myths. I've heard these myths throughout my travels throughout the district and down here in D.C. that the hydraulic fluid, that there is some secret, that they don't want to talk about it, they don't want to…

I was just going to move onto that, but I will yield to my colleague from Pennsylvania.

I think that articulates a great potential that we see with the Marcellus shale formation in particular. Its location in the northeast area of our great Nation opens it up to development to that densely populated area around New York City…

The United States Government honors, to the penny, all Government contracts even when doing so requires supplemental appropriations, with the exception of contracts with tribes.

It is not necessary to write a better law; just honor the law that the Congress has already written.

Significant Federal funding over the next several years is critical.

I would suspect that's not geographically, sort of, distributed.

It's an important policy question and, it'll rapidly become an important personal question for----

I support this effort because it promotes the efficient administration and completion of Federal construction projects.

Due to my flight from Rhode Island being delayed, I was unavoidably absent for vote No. 47, the confirmation of Jimmie V. Reyna, of Maryland, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit. Had I been present, I would have voted…

In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, many have decried too big to fail, but there may be a more immediate problem: too big or too complicated or too powerful to be audited.

I support this effort because it promotes the efficient administration and completion of Federal construction projects.