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.

There's no such thing as a conflict that can't be ended.

There is no such thing as a conflict that can't be ended.

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

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

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…

We'll have to re-evaluate the Highway Trust Fund and the way in which we fund the Trust Fund.

The two cornerstones of our transportation policy of course is the Surface Transportation Act as well as the reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration.

It's great to have this committee and to have your leadership, thank you.

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

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

I hope that you and General McChrystal will look seriously at the concerns he raises about the rules of engagement.

We need to treat it that way.

I have long advocated for a mechanism for measuring our progress in Afghanistan.

the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves criticized DOD for not having made civil support a primary mission of the Department.

one of the most effective ways to ensure that our Nation is prepared to manage catastrophic incidents is to conduct in-depth planning for those incidents before they occur.