I rise to speak on two topics, briefly, the nomination of Judge Henry Floyd for the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the motion to proceed on China's currency. First, Judge Henry Floyd has been nominated by President Obama to serve on…

Al Qaeda is the biggest loser in Iraq; would you agree with that, Secretary Panetta?

Now, you're the guy that said we need to go into Pakistan and get bin Laden. God bless you.

But we have a national security interest still in Iraq, right? So it's in our national security interest to know what's going on inside that country.

But the best thing I think we could do as a Nation, Admiral Mullen, is to provide capacity to will.

That's the dumbest construct in the entire world, to try to find $600 billion in savings, is to put DOD at risk, destroy the finest military in the history of the world.

I wish to thank you and Senator Leahy for bringing the nomination to the floor. Very quickly, colleagues, this is a confirmation vote for Timothy Cain to be a Federal judge in South Carolina. Tim was my law partner, so I will just put my…

today I wish to pay tribute to Mike Mullen who is retiring as the 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after more than 43 years of distinguished service to our country. Admiral Mullen began his rise in the Navy as a midshipman at the…

I thank the Chair. This is very important. We are broke at home, and there are a lot of things we could and should be doing for our States. I want to try to get our fiscal house in order, but we have to defend this country. The foreign…

We had a very bad problem in the Bush administration that the Obama administration, quite frankly, has corrected.

We all believe in civilian control of the military, but what we do not want is some political appointee being able to shape legal advice to someone whose career is on the line.

To build on Senator Webb, this is a good hearing, and I was thinking, we will come in here--I have learned a lot.