I hope we'll all respond negative -- positively, not negatively, to that plea.

There shouldn't be any partisanship associated with that.

I think there's a system here that breeds corruption. That's why you have Congressman Cunningham who has pled guilty already and other scandals which we're going to hear more about. It's a system where this, quote, 'earmarking,' which is…

I don't believe so. I think the president is staying the course. And I do believe that he stated very clearly when he said troop withdrawals would be dictated by conditions on the ground.

It's bitter, and it's angry, and it's unnecessary.

Senator John McCain will join us.

It is disgraceful, this process.

I want to thank you and Senator Lieberman for holding this important hearing.

We are not going to fix this system until we fix the earmarks.

I look forward to working with you and Senator Lieberman and the entire Committee to develop the strongest possible lobbying and ethics reform package.

We are more than eager to accept additional changes, and we need to do that in a bipartisan fashion.

We should not forget that we, as Members of Congress, owe it to the American people to conduct ourselves in ways that reinforce rather than diminish the public's faith and confidence in Congress.

I praised President Bush for his resolve against terrorism.

To torture someone is just not what the United States of America is about.

Senator McCain called for the administration to revamp its strategy in Iraq, and do a better, more honest job of explaining it to the country.

I think it's a definitional thing and that's why we need specific interrogation techniques put into the Army Field Manual.

I think it's probably an aberration, but there have been documented cases, as you say, of even death under interrogation and that's why we got to stop it.

Yes, I still think we need additional troops and I will not change that view.