It poses a threat. I do not know how we can assure the security of our homeland when we have insecure borders.

I do not see how you can possibly tell Americans that their homeland is secure if their border is not secure.

We have no control over our southern border. 30,000 illegal immigrants are coming across the Arizona border every month.

We do not want the military on the border. That is not appropriate. It is not constitutional.

I am just exceedingly proud of that.

I would urge you to look at the use of the Predator, and other high tech equipment which we have developed and could easily use along our border.

I want to raise one subject with the Secretary, General Eberhart, and Admiral Ellis. There is a dirty little secret about homeland security that I believe needs to be examined and remedied as soon as possible, and that is the fact that our…

In this day and age, on these issues, with the emerging nexus between suicide terror groups and weapons of mass destruction, it is the height of irresponsibility to make fundamental policy decisions based on what Paris, Bonn, Moscow, or…

I would prefer multilateral talks, but I do not think we can wait for partners who do not seem to be coming to join us.

We can do it with, hopefully, a minimal loss of life, even to our enemies.

The question now is whether or not we are going to deploy a system, which we take steps to assure will work.

I truly believe that in many respects North Korea presents the more immediate and maybe in some respects the greater threat at the moment.

General Shinseki, I noted that the Army intends to invest nearly $700 million over the next 6 years to modernize key training ranges.

General Jumper, attempts in the past to artificially keep two defense companies in a particular sector of the defense market for the sake of competition has not produced competition at all.

How have you been able to do this without leasing?

Each time that we have debated it, those who have felt that we need to move forward with a missile defense have prevailed in the debate.

what is the projected pay raise for general and flag officers?

The significant number of Reserve personnel activated since September 11 clearly validates your comments.