Second.

I believe Senator McCain has asked the right question and I think the Navy should respond.

On the other side--we're supplying both sides, essentially, in this battle.

Our success in drawing down our forces and stabilizing Iraq rests on their performance.

I mean, this has been described variously as the Fed put, which is basically we can go out, take some risk, and then we go to the--there is some way to put the risk off onto the Fed, which ultimately is the taxpayer.

I find it extremely discouraging that... all this committee can talk about is where Mr. Abdulmutallab was Mirandized.

There's more of a sense of expeditionary, and this is part of what General Mattis tried to work so hard.

Where are all these coming from?

I cannot get a loan. I have got good credit.

I want to thank you, General Ward. I also want to thank you for your service, because it's a long time since we taught together at West Point and I'm awfully proud of what you've accomplished for the military and for the Army.

I want to follow up the point that Senator Collins made.

I just want to recognize and commend you Mr. Secretary for your leadership.

The theory is true, but the politics around it make it hard to adhere to the discipline.

Although the efficiency of the American bankruptcy system has been one of the great assets of our economy.

The personal cost of these foreclosures really comes home to roost on people in ways that are agonizing.

But don't we have, in effect, a capital liability to fix that bridge, that if we were accounting in a full kind of all-in way, we would recognize some way?

It applies to every single type of debt, including debts that the banks hold, except for one kind, and that is the poor residential mortgage holder.

I could not agree with you more, and I think that we have a window of time... The fiscal knives do not have to come out in the kind of emergency ways that you are suggesting they will have to if we do not get ahead of this.