That is the policy we followed in Kosovo and Bosnia and as a matter of fact in the initiation of the Persian Gulf war.

We are at war and this transformation to our future force is continuing.

In 2002, we put some amendments on the Trade Promotion Act that would assist the Alaska salmon fishermen who had been really harmed by the importation of farm salmon.

I would hope that you would help us find a way to implement this by the end of this year.

I would hope we would have a chance to review it here in this committee and to make some recommendations to Congress to implement that report while he is still here.

I hope you will, because with half the coastline of the United States, some of those villages and communities are located literally hundreds of miles from other communities.

You are confident that you can live with this policy in terms of this war?

I want to tell you before we finish our bill we will confer with you to make sure that you have the flexibility you need to use any funds that are available, not just in the Department of Defense, but to the President, period, to assure…

That is the policy we followed in Kosovo and Bosnia and as a matter of fact in the initiation of the Persian Gulf war.

My mind goes back to the time that I introduced an amendment to change the draft laws to draft women.

It is as important today as it ever was, more important probably, to have a military which has the resources it needs.

Well, I think we'd like to visit with you later, in a classified situation, to discuss this.