the purpose is to allow employers to fill slots for which adequately trained Americans are not available, not to replace existing workers with cheap foreign labor.

How is the ATF working cooperatively with you, with the FBI, on this?

One last question to the FBI director, how is the FBI responding to the Army's separation from the Hazardous Devices School?

What is TEDAC's operational and construction status at this point?

please estimate when the investigation will be complete and when findings and recommendations may be released.

And you abandoned it this week, did you not?

Where are we exactly on that, as far as staffing the program?

It's essential for our future security, is it not?

You mentioned some excess capacity earlier in our forces and probably a need down the road for a BRAC, which none of us particularly like and often fear.

I was pleased to see this year that the President's budget request--$8.1 billion for the Missile Defense Agency, which is an 8-percent increase over last year's budget request.

That's my understanding. It's also my understanding that these troops have not been called up for deployment yet.

According to the data--and I don't have all the data--that I've received, there would be no savings there.

I'm going to shift to another area, to Fort Rucker, Alabama.

We just need to balance this out and be reasonable about it, in my opinion.

Even if these new rules are passed?

I don't like this idea that there needs to be a mix of sources of power.

I think the unifying issue that we can all agree on, Republicans and Democrats, is a more healthy environment.

We think it is appropriate, Senator Donnelly and I, that we have a moment of silence for the Boston Marathon bombing.