This hearing will come to order.

I think the SEC does need to get serious about enforcement.

I assume that you would agree that it is the position of the VA that Confederate soldiers have the same status as Union soldiers when it comes to memorial affairs, from the Civil War.

We have to do the necessities, and the necessities are to get that by to be a more productive body of water.

It seems to me--and I think to everybody else--that we are clearly involved in regime change in this issue.

I think that it is critical that efforts on the Chesapeake Bay are focused on results, and that there is accountability with that particular program.

I appreciate you extending the public comment period for the potential listing of Atlantic sturgeon.

We want to make sure that the agency is mindful of that, and that is reflected in those decisions.

I want to make sure that there is accountability there.

We are going to have to come to grips with the fact that these programs cannot exist if we want America to be what we want America to be.

I think it is very important in terms of how we address situations around the world.

I believe we need to move forward in a time-sensitive way with the situation on Okinawa and Guam.

I was surprised, last year, at how little Tinian was being planned on--the use of Tinian is--29 square miles, most of it's uninhabited.

you have a reputation, well deserved, of being one of the finest diplomats in the State Department

There certainly are other forces in Libya extremist groups including some who have fought in Afghanistan and elsewhere who we have been concerned about for a long time.

So we have official diplomatic relations with the Qaddafi regime?

we are supporting a movement yet to be fully defined and in my view in its attempt to overthrow a government which we still formally recognize.

I think Senator Corker had some good questions on that line that are bent on manipulating these sorts of movements that are otherwise well-intentioned.