What is the current status of functioning local governments in Libya, local elections, local governments, and is that a positive to the national government or is it seen at all as sort of a threat or competition?

The problem is that in order to get Libya to take out its checkbook and pay for things--and right now the bank balance is very low because of the crisis in oil sales--you need to demonstrate to the Libyans what works.

Senator Menendez and I sent a letter to the President this week encouraging the President to continue to build upon this relationship.

I do not think it was stated so unequivocally in the first panel, but to some degree they did.

I think that is very, very dangerous, and we need to distinguish it.

You had a five-point kind of plan that you walked through.

It is a very strong institution in Tunisia, and it has been for some time.

I do not see anything on the horizon that would allow us or enable us to change that.

Ken Burns, paraphrasing Wallace Stegner, called the national parks ``America's best idea.'' This is true not just for the intrinsic value of these lands, but also for the economic impact on rural communities across the country. Countless…

Overshadowed by the Benghazi attack was the fact that the Embassy in Tunis was also attacked within a few days thereafter.

Morocco's history of respect for religious minorities, some of the advances recently in opportunities for women in the commercial and civic spheres are very strong examples that I think we should be highlighting.

today I am introducing the Servicemember Education Reform and Vocational Act of 2013, SERVE. I am pleased Senator Chambliss joins me in introducing this bill. This bipartisan legislation will improve the quality of education for our…

President Yanukovych is not acting decisively to end selective justice and to release former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko from prison.

I thank my colleagues, the Senators from Minnesota and Hawaii, for joining me on the floor. This is a matter I feel very strongly about, and I do wish to offer a few words to basically just raise the question of whether there is a double…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on November 6, 2013, at 10:30 a.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Committee on Homeland…

It's because of Congress. Sequester is because Congress hasn't done a budget.

If Congress would just pass the President's budget... would our readiness issues be much easier to deal with than they are under the sequester?

I just hope if we have another hearing on sequestration, I would suggest that you can bring whatever charts you want, but I would suggest you just bring a bunch of mirrors and put them up so that we can look at ourselves in our faces as…

We really are dealing with a problem that Congress created and only Congress can fix.

Congress could have fixed this. Congress shouldn't have put it in place.

The problem with sequester is it's money, it's timing, and it's flexibility, and all three of those create problems.

Tell us to get a budget deal by the 13th of December, because what you need is certainty and a path out of sequester.

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on November 6, 2013, at 10 a.m., in room SD-226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on November 6, 2013, at 10 a.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Finance be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on November 6, 2013, at 10 a.m. in room SD-215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Health…