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 UNITED STATES SENATE • 2007 – 2012
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
E
-O
RIENTING
 F
OREIGN
 
 AND
 N
 ATIONAL 
 S
ECURITY 
 P
OLICIES
..............................................5Iraq and Afghanistan ...............................................................................5Strategic Engagement in East and Southeast Asia..........................................................8Bringing Burma Back into the World Community........................................................11Re-aligning Military Basing in East Asia................................................................13Proper Support for U.S. Military Personnel .............................................................15Keeping the Carrier in Norfolk ......................................................................17
P
ROMOTING
 E
CONOMIC
 F
 AIRNESS
 
 AND
 S
OCIAL 
 J
USTICE
..................................................18Post-9/11 GI Bill .................................................................................18axpayer Fairness.................................................................................21Criminal Justice Reform............................................................................23 Advocating Fair rade Policy ........................................................................27 Adult Education and Economic Growth ...............................................................29
G
OVERNMENT
 A 
CCOUNTABILITY 
 
 AND
 B
 ALANCE
 
OF
 P
OWERS
...............................................30 Wartime Contracting Reform .......................................................................30Dening Presidential War Powers.....................................................................32Defense Department Oversight ......................................................................33Battle of Wanat Investigation ....................................................................33Safe Body Armor for Our roops .................................................................34 Addressing “Star Creep” in the Military ............................................................34Ending Wasteful Government Subsidies of Ethanol .......................................................35Preventing Overreach by the Environmental Protection Agency..............................................36Strengthening the Eectiveness of U.S. Foreign Aid.......................................................36
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ORKING
 
FOR 
 V 
IRGINIA 
.............................................................................38Strengthening Virginia’s ransportation Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Combating Drug racking in Southwest Virginia.......................................................41Eort to Garner Federal Recognition for Virginias Indian ribes.............................................42 Advocating on Behalf of Virginias Historic Civil War Battlefields ............................................43Protecting the Chesapeake Bay Watershed ..............................................................44Virginia Outer Continental Shelf Energy Production Act...................................................45Expanding Craney Island...........................................................................46Rehabilitating Historic Schools Act ...................................................................47Establishing Fort Monroe National Historic Park.........................................................48Support for Woodrow Wilson Library: ‘Presidential Historical Records Preservation Act’...........................49
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PPENDIX 
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ENATOR 
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EBB
..............................................................50 What It Means o Be A Leader ......................................................................50 What’s Wrong With Our Prisons? ....................................................................53
 
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 We Can’t Afford to Ignore Myanmar ..................................................................55 A Plan in Need of Clarity...........................................................................57 We Helped the Bankers. Now It’s Teir urn. ...........................................................59Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege..............................................................61Te South China Seas Gathering Storm................................................................63
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PPENDIX 
 2: M
 AJOR 
 M
EDIA 
 C
OVERAGE
 ...............................................................65
Post-9/11 GI Bill ................................................................................
66
Newsweek 
: Because Its Right.....................................................................66
Te Washington Post 
: EDIORIAL: What the GIs Deserve..............................................68
Te Free-Lance Star 
: EDIORIAL: Mr. Webbs GI Bill.................................................69
Engagement in Asia ..............................................................................
70
Te New York imes 
: Visit to Myanmar.............................................................70
CQ Weekly 
: urning Americas Gaze oward Asia .....................................................71
Te Free-Lance Star 
: EDIORIAL: Sen. Webbs dammitdiplomacy ......................................75
Criminal Justice Reform...........................................................................
76
Te New York imes 
: EDIORIAL: Sen. Webbs Call for Prison Reform....................................76
Te New York imes 
: EDIORIAL: Reviewing Criminal Justice ..........................................77
Te Economist 
: EDIORIAL: A Nation of Jailbirds....................................................78
Te New York imes 
: EDIORIAL: Falling Crime, eeming Prisons.......................................80
 Wartime Contracting.............................................................................
81
Te Roanoke imes 
: EDIORIAL: Webb puts troops ahead of prots......................................81
Richmond imes-Dispatch
: EDIORIAL: Waste, Fraud, Abuse: Betraying Te roops .........................82
Iraq and Afghanistan .............................................................................
83
USA oday 
: EDIORIAL: Te Soldiers Burden......................................................83
Richmond imes-Dispatch:
EDIORIAL: Webbs New Question: In Iraq Forever.............................84
Libya and Syria..................................................................................
86
Richmond imes-Dispatch:
EDIORIAL: Webbs Speech: Finest Hour .....................................86
Te Atlantic:
 Webb to Hot Head Senators: Cool It ....................................................87
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PPENDIX 
 3: T
IMELINES
 
FOR 
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ENATOR 
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EBB
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EY 
 I
NITIATIVES
 ..........................................89Engagement in East and Southeast Asia................................................................90East Asia Military Basing ...........................................................................96Criminal Justice Reform...........................................................................102Post-9/11 GI Bill ................................................................................104 Wartime Contracting Reform ......................................................................108axpayer Fairness................................................................................111Military Personnel (Active/Guard/Reserve, Retired)......................................................113Presidential War Powers: Iraq and Afghanistan..........................................................122Presidential War Powers: Libya and Syria..............................................................127 Advocating Fair rade Policy .......................................................................129Keeping the Aircraft Carrier in Norfolk...............................................................131Strengthening Virginias Infrastructure................................................................134

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