Would you agree that at least right now, as I mentioned, we must proceed with extreme caution but that we may find that some states are better suited for exploration through fracking rather than other states?

What we need to be concerned about is if it happens to be a religion that convinces people that part of their faith is to go off and murder other people's children.

I agree with those who say we need an 'all of the above' approach to energy production.

I was the Soviet Union's worst enemy and nemesis because I believe that free people need to determine who their number one enemies are and work to try to defeat them.

Let's remember, even before the budget cuts, Social Security was extremely efficient, spending something around a penny, actually less than a penny on program administration for every dollar it spends paying the benefits American workers have earned.

Let's remember, the number of people that have been paying into and are now beginning to collect their benefits because they paid into it is not shrinking, it is growing.

As I said, it is budget cuts, budget cuts that have left the Social Security Administration without enough resources to serve the public the way Social Security should and the way Americans want the program they have paid for to serve them.

And so we have got to deal with the fact that we need the capacity to deal with more folks quickly and accurately so we don't pay out benefits to people who don't deserve them and we don't delay benefits for those who have earned them.

So by the way, I think a point we should make, Mr. Chairman, is that Social Security has money to pay for its administration.

What is the result? Well, Social Security at some point had to give.

Mr. Chairman, there are consequences in not funding Social Security properly.

And I think, Mr. Bertoni, in your, I think, if I am looking at your testimony, your written testimony, you point out that, in a chart, back in 2002 there were 50.8 million, about 51 million Americans who were receiving benefits from Social Security.

the al-Qaeda-linked groups have developed really a methodology with the use of suicide bombings that they have carried to quite an extent.

I appreciate that opportunity, Mr. Chairman, but I think I will defer and allow the witnesses each to testify.

this was much more than just a movement for Chechen independence, indeed it was much more ambitious, because the idea was a caliphate for the whole region.

we are changing our culture to this al-Qaeda, you know, psychology, and that it is a Gulf state culture, in his mind.

the way in which this Chechen al-Qaeda-linked organization was going house to house in their state, which neighbors Chechnya, and giving young men an option of either joining the movement, the jihad, as they called it, or killing them.

Food aid often gets there after everyone is dead.