Our most recent effort here has been women in submarines. It is very successful.

For me, this is not just an issue of the protection of an individual's religious rights, which is extremely important, but in a world now where so many of the conflicts we are seeing are conflicts driven by sectarian religious intolerance…

What we need now is humanitarian aid inside.

The issue of aggressive insertion of humanitarian aid into the country is a huge and important one.

The United States is the largest provider of humanitarian relief in the world. That is not by accident. It is strategic.

Diplomacy is an element of strategy.

today, along with Senator Rubio, I am submitting a bipartisan resolution to coincide with the third anniversary of the Syria crisis. We are witnessing one of history's greatest humanitarian catastrophes unfolding before our eyes. The…

I do not think that is the case, because while the testimony of the panel is kind of divergent, you put two pretty important interests on the table, energy security of the Nation and its multiple ramifications and the important science…

I think people ought to take a position on the science.

I think the science is clear. I have lived it, I am seeing it.

I may get 10 or 15 minutes, which is fantastic.

We see it in extreme weather events, and we have an obligation to try to do something about it.

Now, I know that that creates some real anxiety in the Taliban, and they have just recently done very public calls for violence to disrupt the elections.

I wish in Iraq we had worked out an acceptable BSA with the United States and the United States had stayed.

Since the Taliban fell in Afghanistan, life expectancy in Afghanistan has improved from 45 years to 62 years.

We want the United States to stay and we want to work out an acceptable BSA.

The American role in improving the life of Afghans has truly been massive, and the more we do that the more we inoculate against extremism.

We shouldn't stay unwanted. We shouldn't stay if we can't work out a BSA.

I am pleased today the Senate will pass legislation I support, the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act. This bipartisan legislation honors the memory of Gabriella Miller, a young girl from Leesburg, VA who was diagnosed with an…

We are ending the longest prolonged period of war in our Nation's history.

I think that we are at a natural inflexion point.

I thank my colleagues for drawing attention to this critical issue and problem. I want to start with the solution. The solution to climate change is American innovation. The solution to climate change is American innovation. We have to get…

The President has given very clear guidance that he sees us coming off of a wartime footing.

If the war is ending at the end of our 2014 activities in Afghanistan, then should the authorization expire?

The combat mission in Afghanistan is concluding at the end of 2014.