I think there have been significant questions raised about the movement of prisoners out of Guantanamo Bay.

Mr. President, let me say that I know Senator Rockefeller and I will have a little time toward the vote to do a summation of the bill. But while we are at this stage, I do wish to say that I think we have taken a major step forward in FAA…

Mr. President, on behalf of the Senator from Arizona, Mr. McCain, I ask unanimous consent that amendment No. 3528 be withdrawn. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

The Marine Corps does need to continue to explore other alternatives, just in case our preferred alternative, which is Guam, runs into problems.

Could you give me a couple of the major points that you determined Korea would not be as helpful to the marines?

Well, I think there have been significant questions raised about the movement of prisoners out of Guantanamo Bay.

I would like, before we come forward with our recommended military construction appropriations report, to know what is the German and Korean contribution to the requests that are being made.

This is going to significantly increase the cost to American taxpayers.

Germany has not been forthcoming in the past in sharing expenses and they have higher quality requirements which make military construction more costly.

I would just submit that in the time that you say we have been looking at this, certainly the infrastructure is worse than we had predicted and costs have certainly gone up.

The sooner that we can get our service men and women into the new state-of-the-art facilities, the sooner we will live up to our commitments to provide for them in a way that we should as a Nation.