Local jails to me provide a real opportunity for dealing with successful reentry.

If our principal objective is to improve public safety, we are not doing a very good job.

Education is important, calling attention to the problem in every way that you can, as you are doing here this morning, that is important.

This is not a Republican or Democratic thing. It is a very serious and growing problem, as you have said.

We have got to keep our focus on passenger safety, but there are a lot of strong interests within the system.

We are also convinced that we have found both a framework for climate legislation to pass Congress and the blueprint for a clean energy future that will revitalize our economy.

The message to those who have stalled for years is clear: killing a Senate bill is not success.

We refuse to accept the argument that the United States cannot lead in the world in addressing global climate change.

the American people have waited decades while our Nation has become increasingly dependent on foreign energy sources.

giving America control over its energy future can and should be a bipartisan mission.

I applaud the many Senators, including members of this committee, who have contributed meaningfully to the Chairman's mark.

Americans want reform that harnesses the country's can-do spirit.

A new strategic concept should create a framework to resolve these important issues, but it should also provide a way for NATO's partners to focus their effort in important areas like planning, procurement, and training.

NATO has been one of the most important stabilizing forces in the world, and it--I believe that we need to continue it as a strong organization with American leadership.

I believe in American leadership.

For more than 60 years NATO has flourished because it has defended the ideals of freedom, democracy, and stability not just for members of the alliance but for all of Europe and indeed the world.

It is a level playing field if you ignore every unpublished document and every unpublished oral statement.

I would suggest that an investor warning system, the likes of which myself and Congressman Brad Sherman, my colleague from California, have laid out the case for, would be championed by those who wish to see some change of conduct.