during today's session of the Senate, six rollcall votes were taken. I was necessarily absent and missed five of these votes, due to attending funeral services in Richmond for Ray Boone. While I missed votes on the confirmation of Leo T…

if the executive starts off slipping, it kind of sends the message... that it is okay to slip

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Lauck Nomination

I ask unanimous consent that the Select Committee on Intelligence be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on June 5, 2014, at 2:30 p.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Subcommittee on Emergency…

I rise to offer a few words about the colloquy that just was completed. I often find, when I am on the floor or presiding, that I feel sorry for the spectators in the Chamber. Either they are seeing the body not work as well as it should…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on June 5, 2014, at 9:15 a.m. in room 253 of the Russell Senate Office Building to conduct a hearing…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on June 5, 2014, at 10 a.m., to conduct a hearing entitled, ``Developments in Ukraine.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without…

I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Emergency Management, Intergovernmental Relations, and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the…

I viewed it as a real positive that their candidates of the two main ultranationalist parties got less than like 2.2 percent of the combined vote in the presidential election.

I think Ukraine should go ahead and go forward with the association agreement with the European Union.

My sense of the Russian economy is it is a rust belt economy with natural resources.

There would be some potential effect on ongoing operations, in the absence of an AUMF, that you would--

But, to my colleagues, this is something that I think only we can solve.

Carte blanche is a bad thing. Time to get done with the carte blanche grant of authority to the Executive.

I personally believe must be repealed.

Congress put in it no temporal or geographic limitation.

the prospect of repealing the AUMF is precisely what the President has functionally asked us to do

There is no issue more important to our national security than whether to use military force.

the position would not be 'support,' and the position would not be 'opposed';... it would be 'I do not know what the administration's view would be'

I feel it is time to seriously consider what options and tools we have to counter what appears to be a continued, and, in some regions, growing, threat of terrorism to the United States.

The administration does not have a current position about whether it would support an AUMF repeal.

the AUMF provides broad authority to use force against al-Qaeda, the Taliban

I have a number of concerns about the AUMF.

I do not think that is what Congress intended.

So, there would not be a worry about the absence of an AUMF affecting DOD's CT operations.