Honorable Carl Levin
U.S. Senator, Michigan, Democrat
Senator Levin was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1978. He is the chair of the Armed Services Committee and serves on the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. The following is excerpted from a November 29, 2011, statement on the floor of the U.S. Senate during debate on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. There have been so many misstatements and facts that have been made, it is hard to keep up with them. Let me just take the last statement the Senator from Illinois [Richard Durbin] made about changing military tribunal law. There…
