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

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.

I am delighted to be a member of this very important Committee, Environment and Public Works.

We may get back to more of these questions with regard to the camps.

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

You said that access is restricted. I want to ask you if you can describe if there is a total prohibition on any humanitarian aid coming in, or is it limited, or is it ad hoc depending on what time period you are talking about?

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

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?

I think if he wanted these incidents to stop, he could make them stop tomorrow.

what the government is doing right now could eventually fuel further support of the antigovernment forces rather than help reconciliation

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

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.

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

it is inevitable that votes are cast--I am right in the middle of the same procedure--where we do not know what we are voting on because we have not heard the debate

it is hardly a function of the world's greatest deliberative body

It is like a steam kettle. You fire it up, and it is going to come out someplace.