Neither can we allow the insurance industry to use the September attacks as an excuse to shirk its rightful role and responsibilities.

What we ought to approach this challenge with is the question, how are we going to protect America's insurance consumers.

Mr. Chairman, I believe so. That question never came up because it was never a question of whether it was not to be covered.

Well, that is a consideration--we cannot do no solution. I do not think we can do that. So let us find the delicate balance.

We must allow the market to figure out how to price this new risk.

We cannot ask the taxpayer to pick up the entire bill.

Were I still the insurance commissioner, I would try, Mr. Chairman, but I am not sure I would be successful.

That is correct.

Neither can we allow the insurance industry to use the September attacks as an excuse to shirk its rightful role and responsibilities.

Some of our most productive 'leap ahead' technologies have often been associated with space.

If that fight is in the future between Commerce and Defense, it would be my hope, with your background, your expertise, your stature, that as the chief foreign officer representing the United States that you would weigh in on that.

In the State Department now there is an office having to do with Holocaust assets retrieval.

I'm very pro-choice.

No, I am pro-choice in every respect and as far as it goes, but I just hate it.

Well, look. I'm very pro-choice. I hate the concept of abortion. I hate it. I hate everything it stands for. I cringe when I listen to people debating the subject. But you still- I just believe in choice.

A recent case is that of political activist and human rights dissidenter Nestor Rodriguez Lobaina, who was arbitrarily arrested again on July 11 of this year solely for exercising his right to freedom of expression.

While many may turn a blind eye to the reality that plagues the Cuban people, Amnesty International does not.

These examples of the Cuban dictatorship's cruelties are grave and numerous. Other countries may wish to ignore them. However, the U.S. Congress cannot and indeed we must not.