There is no stronger, clearer voice in the Senate than Sheldon Whitehouse in terms of the threats we face on the criminal front and the terrorist front that come from cyber misdeeds.

Should it? Would you accept an amendment offered by me to make sure people of conscience do not have to do something like this?

Medical encyclopedias--and I am sorry I am running over; I will wrap it up here--encourage parents to talk to the baby at 20 weeks.

Let us see if we can find some common ground here about how these laws work.

What nation states do we need to worry about in terms of being involved in this activity?

Are you the Eliot Ness of botnets?

What do you think the deterrence is like right now, Mr. Demarest?

I couldn't disagree with you more, Madam Chairman.

We need to make their life hell.

We are nuts if we don't.

Our response, our sense of urgency, is woefully inadequate.

I want to pass immigration reform, but I want to stop this narrative that if we passed some law, we wouldn't have this problem.

If one of these children are placed with a relative in the United States, do we check the legal status of that relative?

I think we should know the answer to that, because the likelihood of them showing up for a hearing is zero.

I think you are reinforcing bad behavior.

If you listen to the people who are launching these attacks, they say they are going to Jordan. What are they trying to accomplish? Bizarre as it may sound to the average American, they have a very specific plan and it sort of goes like…

The Iraqis did not want to leave a force behind. Mr. McCAIN. Yes; he was saying they did not. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the following quotes, including October 2012. I quote the President of the…

Quite the opposite. If we go back and look at the tape around this debate, the President basically said: We left Iraq and we are not going to be bogged down by Iraq. There was no regret that I am so sorry we couldn't convince the Iraqis to…

Senator McCain and I have decided to come down before the Fourth of July break to talk about two issues that are very important to our national security. The first issue I would like to discuss is the threat we face as a nation from…

I ask unanimous consent to be recognized for 4 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

contrary to what may be popular belief, there are plenty of Democrats in this body who are very much worried about Iraq. The question is, What do we do about it? I will be the first to admit it is complicated. The first thing we have to…

This was in a meeting in his office. He asked me, What kind of force are you talking about? I turned to General Austin and Ambassador Jeffries and I asked them, What is the number? Answer the Prime Minister's question. They said, We are…

Yes, I will be glad to. And to put it in context, in 2008 we signed a strategic framework agreement. It was envisioned that we would negotiate a follow-on force with advisers and some special forces units to secure our Nation as well as to…

I would not send $1 to Iraq. I would not send one soldier to Iraq, one airman to Iraq until we understand that over the arc of time Maliki has to go. I have been there more times than I can count. Maliki did some good things on his watch…

Here is the problem with that: To go to a meeting in Baghdad, you are likely to get killed trying to get there. Who is going to sit down in Baghdad when everybody is getting killed based on sectarian differences? So my advice would be to…