Jim Webb: “Nine years of conflict have stressed our military in ways that were not contemplated at the inception of the…”

I would like to take a couple of minutes this morning to discuss Senator Sessions' amendment which we will be voting on shortly, amendment No. 3009, which I cosponsor, and explain my views on why this amendment is important in terms of the…

If we stand for anything as a country, then we would have an obligation to declare those sorts of acts of a magnitude that we would not recognize the validity of that government.

I think we really need to work here in the Congress on having a clear, objective methodology that everyone can understand around the world.

I think if the administration had properly put the issue before the Congress, the likelihood is that it would have been supported.