Saxby Chambliss
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"Clarence Saxby Chambliss" is an American politician who was a United States Senate/United States Senator from Georgia (U.S. state)/Georgia from 2003 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party (United States)/Republican Party, he previously served as a United States House of Representatives/U.S. Representative from 1995 to 2003.

During his four terms in the House, Chambliss served on the United States House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and chaired the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security, which oversaw investigations of the intelligence community after the September 11 attacks in 2001.

During his 2002 bid for the U.S. Senate, Chambliss focused on the issue of defense (military)/national defense and homeland security. He won with 53% of the vote. For several years he was the ranking Republican on the United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry/Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and chaired the committee during the 109th Congress (2005–2007). In the 112th Congress (2011–2012) he is the ranking Republican on the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence/Select Committee on Intelligence.

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America is providing the kind of leadership that the world respects and the world has come to understand; that is what America stands for.

It's not that it was our time, but you can only go so long with so many bases and not be part of the process.

The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.

Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.

America has long been the leader of the free world. But we did not get there in an easy way. Likewise, Iraq is not going to get there in an easy way.

The tobacco buyout comes at no cost to the taxpayers, and remedies the action taken by the federal government that would otherwise have pulled the rug out from under generations of families who've grown this crop.

There's always somebody who wants to take a shot at the peanut program.

The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services.

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.