Jim Webb: “We'd like to ask for your support and leadership in helping us break through some of the stovepipes and bureaucracy at…”

I respectfully ask the Committee to work with me to bring this legislation to the Senate floor.

Yesterday was a really incredible day. And I have said many times that that came about, in my view, largely because of the courage of two people.

I would submit to you there was plenty of time in Libya.

So if Tiananmen occurred today with the Chinese Government rolling out tanks and killing hundreds, if not thousands, of its own people, that it would also fit the Panetta rule.