Bob Corker: “I do wonder whether we should consider a different payment mechanism, where in essence the credit rating agencies have…”

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 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…

We need to make every dollar of our limited foreign aid resources count by addressing problems where we can have a real impact on people's lives.

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