I thank my colleague. I share that view. I say to my good friend that acting on it now and not further delaying, with this Chamber and that of the House of Representatives, hopefully, acting on identical language, can in a strong voice say…

I will say at this point in time, Senator Lieberman and I, and Senators McCain and Bayh drafted this resolution after listening to the suggestions of many Senators on both sides of the aisle. But at this point in time, we have other…

We urge people to come to us. I also speak for the Mayor of the District of Columbia. The District of Columbia is grateful for the quick response led by our President, led by the Attorney General and others, to this crisis. I have been…

I just wish to express my profound appreciation for the support of the Senator from Florida for the Lieberman-Warner-McCain-Bayh resolution. He is a valued member of the committees here in the Senate. Certainly he has worked hard on our…

I am unfamiliar with the letter. I am not familiar--I heard the Senator addressing a letter from the CIA. I was under the assumption it was a declassified document. Is it a classified document?

I guess I am missing something, but drawing on my own modest experience in the military, where I for a period was communications officer in the 1st Marine Airwing, living with aviators who were being shot at every day, to me they are…

while I disagree with the thesis of our distinguished colleague, the Senator from Oregon, I do respect his views on it. I wonder if I might engage him in a brief colloquy. This doctrine of preemptive attack unilaterally, clearly the…

Saddam Hussein possesses, today, an arsenal of weapons far more dangerous to the whole world than Hitler ever possessed.

it is in the true spirit of this institution, which Senator Byrd knows so well, that we exchange viewpoints as we have done Friday, yesterday, and again today, and we will continue to do that. Hopefully, these facts which the Senator deems…

I strongly differ. I think our President has clearly said--first before the United Nations and as late as last night--that there is imminent danger to our Nation from Saddam Hussein and his possession of weapons of mass destruction. We…

if I could, because I have been aligned with the distinguished Senator from Nevada, Senator Levin, and others on both sides of the aisle, together with our colleague from Georgia, about this concurrent receipt--this Senator knows of no…

Could the Senator direct himself to the point made by the Senator from Virginia, that our aircraft have been fired upon in enforcing resolutions 60 times in the month of September of this year alone? The total firings by ground-to-air…

I say to my good friend he is very correct and accurate, as always, in what he stated yesterday as not being associated to the President personally. I say to the Senator, I associate myself with your goal of having broader concurrent…

As the President said, that strike could come and we cannot trace the fingerprints. We are still trying to study who brought the anthrax against the U.S. Senate, the post offices--I reiterate, without fingerprints.

I must conclude to stay within the allocation of time. I say to my friend, I look forward to our further debates on the floor. But I close by saying this vote which we will cast here has to be a vote of conscience, not influenced in any…

I reiterate what our distinguished colleague from Connecticut has said, what my longtime friend of over 30 years, Senator McCain, just said. This is the last option. What we are doing in the Senate today, tomorrow, and when that vote comes…

The advancement of technology is what makes things different. The advances of technology are what underlies this doctrine of preemptive strike, which our President says must be addressed now, not only by our Nation, but other nations that…

It is time to authorize the use of our military might to enforce the United Nations resolutions, disarm Iraq, and eliminate the ongoing threat to our security, and the world's, posed by Saddam Hussein's rabid regime. Later he asks the…

I commend him on that point and share it. In previous days on this floor, most particularly on Friday, I have said that repeatedly. That is the key, the arch of this whole debate is the need to have unity of the two branches of Government.

I think it will be reassuring to the American people to see this kind of analysis and this kind of discussion--that we are not rushing to judgement.

whoever is President of the United States--be it President Clinton or now President George Bush--has the inherent power to utilize the Armed Forces of our Nation when he deems there is a threat to our security. That, of course, is the…

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Government of Iraq is in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations, and therefore the President is…

In the next century, the community of nations may see more and more the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists, drug traffickers, or organized…

I compliment our distinguished colleague. I say to the Senator, even though you have given your statement, I anticipate this debate in the Senate will continue for 2 days, and perhaps you will find the opportunity to revisit the floor and…

Might I add that those pilots to whom the Senator referred, American and Great Britain, were shot at 60 times in just the month of September alone and they have been at it now for over a decade. It is the only enforcement of any resolution…