There is no way around the fact that any calls for increased surveillance capabilities will have significant implications for technological and economic development, as well as basic privacy concerns.

I am glad to have the hearing today because over the past few months, there have been news reports that new communications technologies are making it more difficult for law enforcement to engage in court-authorized wiretaps.

And when you have a wiretap and the technology doesn't let you listen in, that is the problem we are dealing with, right?

I believe at the onset of this discussion, eyes need to be open to all of the considerations involved.

Are you asking for any surveillance authority over and above what you have now--requirement for warrant, probable cause, and all of that?

Now, Ms. Landau, if law enforcement can get into a conversation, what would prevent anyone else who is a skilled hacker, what would be the problem for them getting in?

And American manufacturers would, therefore, not be at a disadvantage?

Admiral Mullen spoke of the extensive high operational tempo of both the Navy and Air Force over the past ten years of sustained combat in Iraq & Afghanistan; do you feel that the Air Force has an adequate budget to carry on enduring…

313 should be a floor. I've been very concerned and vocal about my worry that we've taken our eye off of our strategic forces.

I understand that direct money would not be going over there. The concern that I have is that if we are funding programs that they otherwise would be funding and they are able to take that money in order to increase their nuclear arsenal…

I commend you both.

It's not a good idea to give weapons and military support to people who you don't know.

I am very concerned on the cost issue.

I made a lot of the money. He did a lot of the work.

The politics of making tough choices on this issue are not easy.

I really thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your leadership on this issue.

Thank you, Chairman Rockefeller for your work to make the issue of communications infrastructure for first responders a priority.

I will not put the migration of all the existing narrowband into broadband under a ten-year frame.