to say it is the President's policies is just poppycock, as far as I am concerned.

I think it is criminal that we are not doing it.

Given the number of recently announced reductions, it is important for us to have a clear understanding of what the airlift requirements are to meet the new defense strategy.

Let us just quit this kind of talk and let us be real with the American people.

What they want from us and from the President is some vision and some leadership about the future.

The Republican mantra is that we need to 'drill, baby, drill.' This slogan may sound good, but it is based on a complete fiction.

We can't afford to take money from taxpayers struggling to pay their mortgages and fill up their tanks and hand it to oil companies making billions in profits.

The President has called for eliminating the $4 billion in tax breaks for oil companies, and instead investing it in alternative energy.

The top five oil companies earned $137 billion in profits last year and gas prices are rising.

We don't control the price. We don't control the price.

As long as the U.S. is heavily dependent on oil, we will be vulnerable to price volatility in the global oil market.

The fundamental problem isn't that we are not drilling enough or even that we are too inefficient.

The idea that our problem is insufficient oil production is a fantasy, and I believe it is a very dangerous fantasy.

Let us just quit BS-ing the American people that there is some way to control the price of a barrel of oil.

It is vital that we are paying attention to this question.

Let us quit BS-ing the American people that there is some magic wand or some policy that Congress or any President, Democrat or Republican, can do to affect the price of a world priced commodity.

the Department has made it clear that we prefer a smaller ready force to a larger force that lacks sufficient training and equipment to perform the mission assigned to it.

it's important that we recognize the costs that are involved and that, frankly, all of us bear some responsibility to pay those costs if we're willing to engage in war.