Thank you, Mr. Graham, for your confidence in the people of Congo and for learning more about what can be done.

We need a sophisticated grounding on this ideology, a world view so different than our own, so that our efforts, in diplomacy, development and defense, can be successful.

This Congress has the power to plot our course to continued global leadership by robustly funding diplomacy and development, and thus enabling smart power.

I hope that does not hurt you with the White House.

You cannot get there without nuclear.

Sequestration would be very, very harmful.

Well, all I can say is it would be like telling a North Korean to speak up. That may be a bit of an extreme example, but not too much. The point we are trying to make to President Obama is that if he believes there is a moderate element in…

We have agreed to be a partner with the Federal Government, to be the site that would accept the 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium.

Let me not only say why I agree, but here is what is about to happen in the Mideast. Because of our lack of leadership, the Iranians have gone on a rampage. My colleague had a very august group of people today--some of the smartest people…

I do appreciate the President's budget this year. It is better than last.

If I could give my best answer to that, No. 1--and my colleague from Arizona has been more right than wrong for the last 4 years about what was going to happen in the Mideast if we made the choices the President made--No. 1, my colleague…

Exactly. So the point we are trying to make to the President and the Members of this body is that Iran is on a rampage without a nuclear weapon. Clearly they are not a moderate regime trying to live peacefully with their neighbors. They…

I want to reduce costs. There are some studies being done as an alternative to MOX.

From an American point of view, if Syria is not resolved in the next 3 to 5 years, do you worry about our allies in Lebanon and Jordan?

I raise an issue before the body. I don't know how accurate the press reports are, but apparently the Chief of Staff of President Obama, Mr. McDonough, today spoke in town to a group called J Street, which is an organization supportive of…

Sanders amendment No. 323 is pending, and Senators should expect a vote in relation to that amendment at 12 noon tomorrow, with at least one additional rollcall vote in the stack before lunch. I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate be in a period of morning business, with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from South Carolina…

I'm a million percent with you.

Do you agree that the terrorist organizations that are operating in Syria and Iraq, Yemen--if they are not dealt with more effectively, we could get hit here at home?

Well, I'm going to do it as a universal declaration. That's just me, though.

And that is a--to suggest otherwise, you really don't understand the region--that the biggest victim of radical Islam is other people in the faith.

Most fathers and mothers don't want to give their daughters to ISIL.

There's two things going on at once, I think, in the Mideast: a fight for the heart and soul of Islam and a demand for social justice, particularly by young people and women.

Don't you think most people in Syria want two things: they want to fight--they want to destroy ISIL and get rid of Assad, the person who's killed 250,000 of their family?

The President hasn't taken anything like this off the table.