Lindsey Graham

No matter how well-intentioned, a resolution being opposed to this new strategy is a vote of no confidence in you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

You are going back for the third time or the fourth time? Third time?

Is it fair to say that one of the reasons that we have the highest rate of reenlistment among those who have served in Iraq is that they believe it is part of the global struggle, the war on terror?

Democrat and presidential hopeful Bill Richardson, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and many other key political players.

To start withdrawing troops would be equivalent to surrendering in the central battle front in the war on terror.

We're on the verge of chaos. The current plan is not working.

I was an early supporter of the concept of military commissions and their use in the war on terror. I believed then and I still believe now that they are historically grounded and the proper forum to prosecute alleged terrorists.

The problem with the way he chose to do this is that they dealt Congress out early on, and they paid a price in the court for that.

If it is acceptable to the chairman, I would like about 10 minutes, maybe less, to talk about a managers' amendment that has been accepted by the chairman and ranking member, to put in the record how important I think this is regarding…

If I may add, the projections are that the military health care program will be $65 billion in costs by 2015, 12 percent of the DOD's budget. We will be getting a real hard look to see if those moneys are accurate and ways to save money…

I will give the Senator my answer and then yield to anyone. I know we need to wrap this up. In my opinion, the phrase, ``unless otherwise authorized or provided by law,'' we would preserve that service. Simply stated, that language to me…

I think we've reached a plea bargain with 11 million illegal aliens.

We have to recognize that for several generations, people have made America home. And we've accepted the benefit of their labor.

I know abortion is important. It's important to me. It's important to you. I know it's an important central concept in our jurisprudence. But we can't build a judiciary around that one issue. We can't make judges pledge allegiance to one…

Are you really a closet bigot?

Men and women, black and white, your colleagues who say that Sam Alito, whether I agree with him or not, is a really good man.

The idea that our president or this administration took the law in their own hands and ignored the precedent of other presidents or case law and just tried to make a power grab, I don't agree with.

So once this bill is signed into law, you anticipate that the Supreme Court will determine whether to maintain their grant of certiorari?

If Senator Kyl would be so kind, could he explain how our amendment will affect ongoing litigation? Specifically, my understanding is that the Supreme Court granted certiorari recently in a case.

Yes, I assume that they will do so. No sense in kicking out a detainee's current habeas action in the DC Circuit just so that he has to refile a section 1405 review request--it would be better to let the current case go forward as a 1405…

It is also my intention to make a technical correction, in the future, to language contained in the conference report to the Fiscal Year 2006 Energy and Water Appropriations Act. This conference report contains a change to important…

I don't know if anyone has done an analysis of our trade deficit. What percentage does the Senator believe is directly attributable to unfair trade practices on behalf of the Chinese? It is one thing to be outworked. If people work harder…

The military commissions would be the sentencing body, not the CSRTs. I know this is a bit complicated, but the CSRT provision doesn't try people. It determines whether they are enemy combatants.

Of all the people we have detained--over 500--no one has been brought to trial yet. Two will be brought to trial in November. One of the reasons that we cannot bring people to trial is because the Federal courts have issued a stay on…