UNITED STATES SENATE • 2007 – 2012
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..............................................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
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F
AIRNESS
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J
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..................................................18Post-9/11 GI Bill .................................................................................18axpayer Fairness.................................................................................21Criminal Justice Reform............................................................................23 Advocating Fair rade Policy ........................................................................27 Adult Education and Economic Growth ...............................................................29
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...............................................30 Wartime Contracting Reform .......................................................................30Defining 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 Effectiveness of U.S. Foreign Aid.......................................................36
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IRGINIA
.............................................................................38Strengthening Virginia’s ransportation Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Combating Drug rafficking in Southwest Virginia.......................................................41Effort to Garner Federal Recognition for Virginia’s Indian ribes.............................................42 Advocating on Behalf of Virginia’s 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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..............................................................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 Sea’s Gathering Storm................................................................63
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Post-9/11 GI Bill ................................................................................
66
Newsweek
: Because It’s Right.....................................................................66
Te Washington Post
: EDIORIAL: What the GIs Deserve..............................................68
Te Free-Lance Star
: EDIORIAL: Mr. Webb’s GI Bill.................................................69
Engagement in Asia ..............................................................................
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Te New York imes
: Visit to Myanmar.............................................................70
CQ Weekly
: urning America’s Gaze oward Asia .....................................................71
Te Free-Lance Star
: EDIORIAL: Sen. Webb’s ‘dammit’ diplomacy ......................................75
Criminal Justice Reform...........................................................................
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Te New York imes
: EDIORIAL: Sen. Webb’s 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.............................................................................
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Te Roanoke imes
: EDIORIAL: Webb puts troops ahead of profits......................................81
Richmond imes-Dispatch
: EDIORIAL: Waste, Fraud, Abuse: Betraying Te roops .........................82
Iraq and Afghanistan .............................................................................
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USA oday
: EDIORIAL: Te Soldier’s Burden......................................................83
Richmond imes-Dispatch:
EDIORIAL: Webb’s New Question: In Iraq Forever.............................84
Libya and Syria..................................................................................
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Richmond imes-Dispatch:
EDIORIAL: Webb’s Speech: Finest Hour .....................................86
Te Atlantic:
Webb to Hot Head Senators: Cool It ....................................................87
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..........................................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 Virginia’s Infrastructure................................................................134
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