Turkey has been an ally of ours since the Korean war, when they fought alongside us during that difficult period.

I will work hand in hand as a partner with the embassy to ensure that we don't just hand off tasks.

I want to thank Senate leadership for bringing this bill to the floor. Our Nation's air traffic control systems are in serious need of modernization, and this bill is the right step forward in addressing those challenges. Improved safety…

today I introduced a bill that speaks directly to the welfare of our military service members and their families. TRICARE, TRICARE for Life, and the nonappropriated fund health plans are the programs that provide health care for our men…

I hope we can count on having this Wartime Contracting Commission make another visit soon into Iraq and come out with an idea on the contracting side of how this is going to look like.

It takes 200 years to develop a tradition, and 2 days to destroy one.

I want to thank Senator Webb for the step that he's now taken to allow our nominations to proceed.

Delays of a year or longer have been reported.

I think you've made that point clearly today.

If you look at General Mattis's biographical statement, I count, I think, at least 12 different levels of command in his career, which is really an extraordinary career.

There is probably no problem in that region that can be addressed by a single country, or working just with a single country.

A big part of my frustration during that period was the political process telling the military how to do its actual functions.