Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

One of the concerns that I've had since I've been here in the Senate is with what I can only call a deterioration of the management aspects in the Pentagon.

the principle purpose of the FCC is to allocate spectrum and to try to find the most efficient way to do that; that spectrum is public property

I am a States' rights guy, so I would tread lightly there because the Federal Government, in my opinion, should be a limited Federal Government.

I honestly believe that, other than the presidency itself, this is probably the most difficult and complicated job in our Federal Government.

I hope the courts will rebuff them again.

At the same time, we have a situation where when the President unilaterally decides to begin a military operation and then continues it, where, clearly, I think as a former Member of Congress, you would agree that Congress needs to be…

The timing of addressing these basing issues, particularly with respect to the Japanese, is vital.

I did hear you agree with Senator McCain or to his comment that nobody is thinking about putting American ground forces in Libya?

I appreciate or was gratified to hear your response to Senator Collins with respect to the need to rebuild our Navy.

I believe what we were able to come up with is at least the right approach, and it could be done in a timely way if we could get people to work with us on doing that.

I just think we have our hands full, and it is not something we should be doing in the future in that part of the world.

I'm the chairman of the subcommittee that's going to have to evaluate this proposal.

But when you have a situation like in this case where the justification is humanitarian, you can see the potential for a very broad definition of what a humanitarian crisis is.

I think the FCC has been on mission creep for decades now.

I would hope that part of the reexamination of the strategy is a realization that the model that we put in place in Afghanistan is not going to be the model of the future.

This position that you are being nominated to is one of the three or four most vital assistant secretaryships right now in DOD given the transitions that we are looking at.

I would suggest that we work up a joint written question for the record that could be answered in an accelerated fashion before the confirmation comes before the whole committee.