Congratulations to the administration for, I think, what will be a historic operation when it comes to the operation against bin Laden.

You cannot protect our vital national interests if Qadhafi stays.

I ask unanimous consent to enter into a colloquy with my good friend, the majority leader. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I thank the majority leader very much. It is appreciated on behalf of all of us in South Carolina. And I look forward to finding a solution for the country as a whole. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Rhode Island…

a lot of Members now understand the problem we have with the port of Charleston in 2011. There is no money in the President's budget to do a scoping study. Under the new rules concerning earmarking, it has been very difficult to find a way…

We're having, I think, an unsustainable increase in healthcare cost in DOD.

I was over nominating a judge for the Fourth Circuit, and I may be the only guy in the history of the Senate to nominate a judge and put a hold on him all at the same time.

Secretary Hale, you served as a member of a Task Force in 2007 created by Congress to examine the future of military health care.

You really meet the human condition in family court in every way possible.

Are these enduring increases in the base budget for fiscal year 2012, or are these contingent on war-time funding?

The plan is to deepen the Panama Canal so that super cargo ships can pass through the canal.

But since that system is not in place, I have to protect Charleston.