Mark Warner

The concept of the inspector general is a proven concept. It is a valuable concept in the administration of our expenditures to have accountability.

I thank the Senator for the reference to the ITAR amendment, which I put in. I consulted with him, Senator Biden, and a great many Senators who worked with me in making this amendment possible, which is currently a part of the managers'…

I say to colleagues, in all candor, this is the third vote on the same issue. They have addressed the issues in this amendment on two occasions, and by significant margin we have decided to reject in any way taking the Missile Defense…

I urge colleagues to give the most careful consideration to this amendment. How well each of us knows the fragility of the Central American band of countries. Colombia has shown the fortitude, the courage, the strength, the sacrifice to…

Fine. I believe our case has been made very clearly to our colleagues that these issues raised by the Senator from Rhode Island have been passed upon by the Senate in the preceding 3 or 4 days after very careful, conscientious, and…

I accept responsibility for increasing the time. I just feel that these are important issues, and some of my colleagues are very anxious to express their views. I want to make that possible.

Well, I don't know, Senator. I am just trying to say that the Senate is looking at this in terms of its fiscal impact. This is somewhere between $200 and $300 billion.

I am proud of what our Senate has done over the past several years to assist veterans. This is another matter that is now pending and has yet to be resolved. I see the distinguished Senator from Nevada, who has been in the forefront with…

I would make an offer to my distinguished colleague, if he wishes to advance an amendment on the issue of the ``loose nukes,'' to work with him to see whether, in this bill right now, we could take that one change, if you feel it is…

I would have to defer until I go to the heart of the experts. All I know is that the name--if we are detaining certain individuals and the enemy does not know whom we have captured, and they, therefore, have to shelve some of their plans…

It is interesting, over the weekend I had the opportunity, I say to my distinguished colleague, to visit the Department of Defense, and I was greatly impressed with an individual, who was a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives a…

I say to the Senator, I concede your point. You need not deliberate further. Fault lies on both sides, both branches of Government. All I am saying is--and I am informed by those who have greater knowledge about the procedures of the Red…

Here is where I respectfully differ. If the information we give to the Red Cross were to leak out, then other nations that are similarly following that practice will see this is now in the public domain and say: We are stopping, Red Cross…

I do not disagree in how you frame the issue, but I maintain my stance. Let me parse it very carefully. I say to the Senator, you are saying that what we give the Red Cross--not what the Red Cross comes back and tells us we are doing right…

I, too, am concerned, as is every Member of this body, about the daily, weekly loss of life and limb by our brave men and women in the Armed Forces. As the Senator says, this is their bill. That is what it is. It is their bill, whether…

We are where we are. In the mortal words of someone smarter than I, we have to deal with the cards which have been dealt. I have a suggestion. We are trying to work out how we could protect the parliamentary situation as it now exists with…

I hope we can perhaps reach the Byrd amendment today. It is an important amendment. I have shared many debates with my good and valued friend from West Virginia, and we are prepared. I cannot join him in support, but we will have a good…

If I could reply, first, I think the distinguished Senator from Nevada has been extremely helpful and is continuing to be that way. Let me point out that we are prepared to take up each and every one of those amendments that he just…

May I add, in the many years I have worked with the distinguished leader from Nevada, this is an issue which he has singlehandedly, in so many instances, taken the role to care for veterans, particularly those who carry the wounds of war…

The principal focus and purpose of the policy is to protect the wishes and the privacy of families of deceased members of the Armed Forces during their time of great loss and grief and to give families and friends of the dead the privilege…

The concern I personally have had--and I think shared by some of our colleagues--is almost less from a fiscal standpoint and more from the fact that when you put a unit together and you bring into that, say, Regular Army unit a guardsman…

I think he will perhaps reflect on the need to go forward with his second missile defense amendment, and he had asked for that need to be reconsidered. Therefore, in its place we can put the end strength amendment, which would be a matter…

Fine. We definitely want to care for those. Those families who are not serving overseas yet have been pulled up abruptly from Reserve or Guard status, yet where the husband or the wife-- whichever the case the uniform may be worn--is not…

You make reference to those families overseas repeatedly. I just want to make sure about some of those at home.

I am firmly opposed to the introduction into the criminal statutes a standard of criminality which I feel is far too vague to support the extreme of deprivation of life, liberty, and freedom--not life, perhaps, but liberty and freedom.