If you, as the safety manager, have any concerns and come to me, we will shut it down.

Not only if we skip it, but if we have an illegitimate election; it will ensure that the February 2011 referendum in the South will be a secession vote, I would think.

I think it's important to know, Mr. Chairman and Senator Lugar, that it is one thing to not have any evidence of cooperation, but then to have an overt act where, in fact, they were helping in counterterrorism, begs the question that…

If we skip the election, I think it's going to be very difficult to have free, fair, and credible referenda.

One of the keys to the CPA is for legitimate elections to take place in Sudan in 2010.

It is a privilege for me to be here before you and my dear friend, Senator Hatch, Senator Franken to introduce to this Committee Beverly Martin.

I would say that there is a collective responsibility here in all the regulatory agencies.

I think capital is our first line of defense against systemic risk, and there should be more capital for more risk.

the taxpayers have spent--and some would say invested--$60 billion in bailout money for the automobile manufacturers.

You mentioned one-stop. Senator Murray and I are on the Labor Committee and the Subcommittee on Occupational Safety and we oversee the Workforce Investment Act.

The sooner, the better.

I don't know that there is a one-stop coordinated place.

I would like for you to comment on the concept of a one-stop shop where everybody that wants to help veterans comes together.

We are in a defining moment right now in terms of veterans' employment.

I am very concerned about the effect the House-passed American Clean Energy and Security Act...will have on agriculture producers.

I would say a couple of things. First of all, we take seriously this threat that EPA may at some point, under existing law, go out and try to regulate what is going on in agriculture.

Very clearly, it is going to impact our ability to export in the world market, and I am one of those who has long advocated the fact that the future of American agriculture and our ability to make a profit depends on our ability to export…

farm income will drop $5 billion compared to the baseline.