I rise to echo what Senator Sessions just said. I have tried to be involved with this detainee issue in as balanced a way as I can. I don't want my country to go down the road of adopting the tactics of our enemy. That has never been the…

this last hour is a good example of what we have come to as a Senate and a Nation. I come to the Senate to support Senator Levin's statement and Senator Warner's statement. We have had a knockdown drag-out over the authorization bill…

I thank the Senator. I stand here in two capacities: speaking as a Senator trying to find a compromise that would be good for the institution and as a friend of Tom Coburn. If I had any doubt about the effect this would have on the…

last week we had a debate and vote on whether an enemy combatant terrorist al-Qaida member should be able to have access to our Federal courts under habeas like an American citizen. Senator Bingaman is trying to strip that part of the…

this is a serious and very important vote. During the debate last week, I made a statement about what rights our troops would have. Our troops, once they are charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, get appeal rights under the…

That would be fine. I would like an extra minute. Senator Kerry gave me some very good advice, and I will take it if I am given the time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to 4 minutes equally divided?

I don't mind if the Senator wants 4 more minutes to speak on his amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

at this time I would like to, in conjunction with my colleague Senator Levin, lay down this amendment, give a brief explanation of what it is designed to do, and I think we will vote on it tomorrow after we vote on Senator Bingaman's…

Never hesitant to support missions in support of our national defense, the residents of South Carolina took considerable risk by allowing shipments of defense plutonium to be sent to the Savannah River Site from Rocky Flats and other DOE…

If I may have the same courtesy and have 4 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from South Carolina.

No. 1, we have a fundamental difference. I do not want everyone to have habeas rights. I do not want the enemy combatant al- Qaida terrorist to be able to go in our courts and start to sue our own troops. I don't want it. I don't think…

I will try to retain 1 minute. Let it be said that the people who attacked us on 9/11 committed an act of war, not a crime, and they are going to be tried under military commissions, not in our Federal courts, because they are engaged in a…

my hope is, as Senator Levin indicated, we are all doing this because we believe Congress has a role in this war. The executive branch has the job to lay the battle plans in place and to go after the enemy and be the Commander in Chief…

Despite this importance, the Department of Energy has not requested full funding for this project in the President's Fiscal Year 2004, Fiscal Year 2005 and Fiscal Year 2006 budget request as originally proposed in the report to Congress…

No. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Massachusetts.

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…

I will be glad to get a letter from the prosecutor at the military commission about the procedures. I will bet $100 he will say they are great. The point is, we are talking about two different things. My amendment is designed to get us…

I yield 6 minutes to my colleague from Arizona. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arizona.

May I answer that? I say to the Senator, with all due respect, that is dead wrong. Military commissions that will be trying the people designated by the President, subject to be tried at Guantanamo Bay for violation of the law of armed…

I call up amendment No. 2515 which is at the desk. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from South Carolina [Mr. Graham], for himself, Mr. Kyl, and Mr. Chambliss…

this whole debate we are having now with Senator Kerry, what we did with Senator McCain's amendment earlier, and what I am trying to do, is a healthy debate about where we are going as a nation, how we prosecute the war on terror, and what…

I want to end with this thought. Never in the history of military commissions where we have tried enemy combatants and spies have they appealed those convictions to Federal court. Never. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New Mexico.

Under the military commission model, there is an appeal to a three-judge panel of civilians appointed to hear appeals. In the military commission model, under World War II, they didn't get that. There is an appeal process for civilian…

Twelve and a half minutes. Mr. President, one thing I have not done in this whole process is be willy-nilly about this amendment or about this issue. I am deeply concerned as a Senator that we have lost the moral high ground in the war…