Jim Webb: “I would also submit that there should be ways to try to measure the true incentive, not simply from the current top…”

The federal recognition process has been fraught with challenges that need to be addressed.

as our office is winding down from my Senate term beginning this week, the field offices in Virginia ceased their functioning, and it is going to be my pleasure later on today to host a lunch for all my staff and to thank them for the work…

If the government is so repressive that it deliberately kills its own people--that is the standard where you say that government no longer has validity--then it does not matter how powerful that government is.

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