I think it is very important to structure legislation which can receive popular support, public support.

Senator Leahy and I have a special spot reserved on C-SPAN that put us on at 3 a.m., so he and I have a tremendous following among America's insomniacs.

I regret that I am going to have to excuse myself early to join the Environment and Public Works Committee, where we are pushing ahead to try to find a legislative answer to global warming at an early stage.

The housing issue is really at a crisis. We have got the manufactured housing on the ground all ready to go and can't move and people don't have housing.

I would like to invite you to the region. I welcome what you are doing in the Gulf region with the Secretary of HUD.

Social Security is the bedrock upon which all retirement planning in the United States has got to rest.

As you said, that reach-out participated in the kite runner book back in the district.

Is it fair to take money from all the other homeowners and taxpayers to help this latter group of homeowners? I don't think so.

It is this lack of communication that has most angered the people who pay the bills, the American taxpayers.

I really am disappointed, however, that the Department of the Treasury didn't produce a witness for this hearing.

My constituents are sick and tired of bailouts.

The American Embassy in Colombo is deeply concerned about these attacks on journalists and has often acted in their interest.

There must be arrangements made for the International Community to assist people.

I guess one area of questioning I wanted to get into was the question of what can we expect in terms of credible negotiations leading to a political settlement.

the most urgent humanitarian need right now in the near term, in the next, literally the next couple of months?

If you don't take any action, if there is no accountability, it sends a totally opposite message, which is that you may operate with impunity.

That can be documented, that aid is getting through?

first of all, stop dropping rockets and shells on the heads of the Tamils, the very Tamils that it is claiming to be liberating