The other point raised in the unclassified GAO report refers to the reliance on tracking data from an old surveillance radar called Cobra Dane.

I appreciate the specificity that you have presented here and we will certainly follow up on that.

Mr. Secretary, when Senator Reed and I were in Afghanistan over Thanksgiving we learned that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) had not yet met its obligations or its commitment to provide additional troops for the provisional…

But Mr. Secretary, that was for a discretionary pool of $10 billion to be used as presumably you saw fit.

We are not about to give you a blank check of $10 billion to be used with no oversight.

Does the internal processes review also include looking at these individual cases that have come to the attention of the press?

I am also concerned about some very old problems, and the recent unclassified study by the Army's Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth...

I have long thought that we ought to be pushing much harder on alternative energy and clean energy.

I am also concerned about the continuing coordination between the DOD and the DHS.

We just have to get a better grip on what we need to do with technology.

Will you direct the Corps to provide this committee with information on how it decided to award that contract to Halliburton?

I wholeheartedly agree with what I heard as I came in, from Dr. Asali's testimony about advocating for a two-state solution that is premised on security and peace and opportunity.

We know that if there is to be real peace between Israelis and Palestinians, there must be a full and immediate cessation of hateful rhetoric on the part of the Palestinian Authority.

I do not understand why the Palestinian Authority cannot separate out a legitimate perspective on what is happening.

I don't believe that there has been an adequate and consistent repudiation of the rhetoric of hate and the incitement of young people by the authorities in the Palestinian Authority.

Let our children live to make their own decisions in the future.

It is troubling, though, and that is something that I think we have to recognize, that with the testimony and the documentary evidence concerning the--actually, the glorification of suicide killers and the incitement of young people to…

My colleague, Senator Schumer, and I wrote a letter to President Bush urging his Administration to do everything in his power to persuade the Palestinians to reverse their hateful rhetoric.