Senate Proceeding on Sep 19th, 2007 :: 6:21:55 to 6:26:35
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Speech By: Benjamin L. Cardin
Bill: H.R. 7022: To reform the financing of House elections, and for other purposes

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Benjamin L. Cardin: limits of deployment of our troops and bring stability to that country and the middle east so much deserves. i thank you for the time and i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from virginia.

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James Webb: mr. webb: mr. president, i p would like to take the opportunity, since it looks like there's no other senators thator wish to speak at this moment, to clarify a few items if this in this amendment

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Speech By: James Webb

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James Webb: with respect to criticisms leveled against it. this is a minimal ameinndment that wants to take a small adjustmentdj to our operational policy that is needed because of these continuous rotations that

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James Webb: have been going on for the last 4 1/2 years. with respect to t rhe constitutionality issue which has beenha mentioned a number of times, my staff has put together a fact sheet which i would like to in

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James Webb: its entirety be submitted for the record. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. webb: and i've mentioned many tim es the situation in korea during thein korean war where the

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James Webb: congress passed legislation to provide that every person inducted into the military would receive full and adequate training for a period of not less than four months and that no personnel during

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James Webb: that four month period would be assigned duty overseas. this is the congress stepping in to correct a situation that has been created by the executive branch sending people into korea before being trained.

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James Webb: in 1940 the selective training act stipulated people inducted into the lapped forces of the united states would not be sent the limits of the western hemisphere but b in u.s. territories. the congress

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James Webb: actede in multiple similar ways prior to world war ii, in 1915 the army appropriations act restricted army tours of duty to the philippines to two years and tours in the canal zone to three years.

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James Webb: there are a number of other examples, mr. president, and i am inserting them into the record but this is a m aatter clearly within the constitutional precorogative of ve the congress shouldng it choose to act. there

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James Webb: was a comment earliers by the scriewn your senator from arizona -- by the junior senatoror from arizona regarding secretary gateso concern about trnhe straip on the government and regard the reserve

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James Webb: if this passes. this amendment addressesnt the guard and reserve and specifically statesif that t national guard and reserve units deployed will not be redeployed for a period of three years. this

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James Webb: is in the going to result in a greater strain on the guard and reserve if this amendment passes.. there was comment about individuals being difficult to manage if the amendment were ssed because we single

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James Webb: out if the amendment that not only units being deployed should be protected but also individuals. the reason that language was inserted into this amendment is because there is a common practice now of

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James Webb: backfill of indivi duals who may have returned from a tour of dutyf much more recently than the unit that they had been assigned to; at the same time, we do have this goal, a laudable goal, of having

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James Webb: units train together and then deploy together. but even under today's circumstances, for instance, in the data sheet that lieutenant colonel mar ten necessary put together for us -- martinez put together from

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James Webb: us, that even by month ten, on a twelve-month dwell time back here, the units are still putting people together. so you want them to train together but it's a fallacy to say they have been training

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James Webb: together for this entire period before they're deployed. and most importantly, this is not difficult to manage. everyone in the united states military has a service record book of some sort. in that

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James Webb: record book are the indications ofdi when they've served overseas. in today's computer able, it's very difficult to figure out who has come back and what period of time and units are tagged to to

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James Webb: deploy at least six months before they deploy so you know who in your unit has recently en been returned and who has not. it is not a difficult problem to fix. i just wanted to make those chair eivetions,

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Carl Levin: clarifications, mr. president. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. levin: inle the next few minutes, perhaps after senator martinez completed, perhaps we can