Bob Corker: “The GSEs have been a political football for both sides for years.”

Through the Presiding Officer I wish to ask the Senator from Indiana, what you are saying is that you are doing everything you possibly can do to ensure that if your amendment passes, never in the future will your amendment be relied upon…

I can understand from the people's perspective that are doing this why they would want to go forward. And I understand that.

This was one of the biggest foreign policy blunders that I can remember, maybe the biggest.

I ask again the Senator: For those of us, many in this body, including the Senator from Indiana, who worry that the mere refueling that may take place in Mali, where maybe we are supporting French troops, or the refueling in other…