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I agree with Senator Lugar. If we were to assess and redistribute our worldwide military and diplomatic assets without reference to where they are today, we'd be hard-pressed to say that we should spend $120 billion in Afghanistan and have…
I look at this $10 billion a month in a counterinsurgency effort to prop up a government that I believe is corrupt.
My constituents would disagree with the membership of your organization.
I believe it could be done faster. I think it could be done better.
I think there have been significant--really, truly significant strides in this administration's efforts at creating a transparent and open government.
My experience is that the marketplace, if there's dollars and cents involved, always figure it out before the government does.
The market failure in the system that could produce high-value recycled materials is very much like a chicken-and-egg problem.
I don't know how familiar you are with the automobile dismantling business.
I wish you well. The problems here are very, very significant.
This is a messy situation that isn't getting any better.
I share a lot of the skepticism that's been expressed here this morning.
You need to train people to be vigilant and watch out for suspicious activity and a real opportunity to report those to the right people so action can be taken.
One of the most glaring decisions by the Administration to ignore this fundamental principal of law is the attempt by the Administration to unilaterally withdraw the license application for Yucca Mountain.
No Administration or Congress can unilaterally decide the law doesn't apply to them.
After spending billions of dollars going into ever-changing directions, how do you sustain a program with a 20- to 30-year lifetime frame in an environment of ever-changing policies?
If Mount Jefferson is in, I have no choice but to oppose the bill.
It seems to me like we are raising the cost of capital and reducing the availability of capital for very little benefit.
And if that is the case, I believe, and I do not want to speak for him, but I believe Mr. Edmonds in the first panel indicated that that increased margin requirement would be a cost on end user transactions that would not necessarily be…