Bob Corker: “I think most people thought it was a pretty silly idea.”

The question is, why would you say you're going to pull our troops out and lose control of a third of the country and do the things that caused us to lose all of our leverage and then go to Turkey with hat in hand and ask them to do…

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.

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…

out of respect for Senator Inhofe and a personal issue he has to deal with, we would hope to be able to vote early. The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time is yielded back. The question is on agreeing to the motion to discharge.