The situation in Iraq is improving, but as all of the commanders and our ambassador constantly repeat, it remains fragile and potentially reversible.

I believe that the administration must consider the defense industrial base, such as the 95,000 (direct and indirect) jobs associated with the F-22 program.

The situation in Pakistan is extremely worrisome, not only because Taliban fighters are using Pakistani bases to attack our soldiers in Afghanistan.

I understand that President Obama will continue to refocus our military's efforts to this region.

Each event offers opportunities for the U.S. and the Iraqis, but also dangers.

Do you believe that Article 5 of the NATO Alliance is still credible in the eyes of the new, and old, NATO members?

It has now been over 7 years since the initial call up and mobilization of National Guard and Reserve Forces in support of the global war on terrorism.

NATO is, first and foremost, a military alliance committed to the security of its members.

I am also concerned about the apparent lack of a coherent civil-military plan for integrating our military operations with economic and political development that is so essential to success in counterinsurgency.

a stable shipbuilding industrial base and predictable levels of funding are critical to achieving shipbuilding cost projections.

President Bush indicated that as troop levels in Iraq decreased, many of those forces would be redeployed to Afghanistan.

Afghanistan stands at a crossroads, and that the progress achieved over the previous 6 years was threatened by resurgent Taliban violence.

I expect we will all hear President Obama himself lay out his priorities for NATO at the 60th Anniversary Summit in April.

I know we discussed this as well, an Inspector General for the entire intelligence community.

I hope that you would take a look at this legislation that Senator Bingaman and I have introduced particularly providing some flexibility in the contracts between the Essential Air Service communities, the small communities and the…

They were supposed to be part of a national plan, a national infrastructure system and they truly have been left behind.

There are a number of issues that obviously you're going to have to address as Secretary of Transportation.

We have to develop a policy of some kind that's going to provide the incentives and the support to our communities.