donovan award. her nomination has been endorsed by leon panetta and john brennan who served as c.i.a. director under president obama. mr. president, our nation and world are facing a range of conventional and unconventional threat from the possibility of nuclear-armed iran to an increasing aggressive russia and china to the ever-present threat of terrorism. we need a leader like gina haspel at the head of the c.i.a., someone who knows intelligence inside and out and who can provide the president with the information he needs to make decisions affecting our nation's security. i look forward to confirming ms. haspel as c.i.a. director in the near future. i hope my colleagues here in the senate both sides of the aisle will join in that endeavor and make sure that this position is filled with the right person to head that agency. mr. president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. rubio: mr. president, i want to begin -- and i want read an excerpt of an article that ran on october 8, 2012. it was in "the new york times" and the article opened with the fo