I appreciate that--the timely hearing that you brought forward here.

I would like to see an endpoint, and this is something that you can expect to hear more on, from our perspective, over the coming months.

If those are people who can be brought over to our view, and if we're having trouble recruiting on the ANA, which we seem to be, while the size of this resistance element seems to be growing, how are you making the distinction, in terms of…

Where I really would like to spend my time today is how we are separating out who actually should be confronted as an enemy on the battlefield.

I think perhaps we may reach a point where we might encourage the Afghanis to examine their constitution that was arrived at, at the Bonn Conference in 2001.

I totally agree with.

I think that clearly China sees a stable Afghanistan as in their own security interests.

We have an active dialogue with the Chinese Government, as we do with many others, in terms of the overall development strategy and political strategy in Afghanistan.

TSA promised them a reimbursement of close to $4 million--$4 million. They're still hanging out, waiting for this reimbursement.

My hope would be that there could be some level of financial support still given to the State and local areas...

Barring a last-minute reprieve by Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, Muhammad will die by lethal injection tomorrow at 9 p.m. Eastern.

I thought it was pretty cool, this notion of the competition between offices.

I mean, clearly, the first round of reporting on the Recovery Act, to say the least, caused some consternation.

What we need to start doing is breaking down these contracts into smaller chunks and moving more toward fixed price contracts.

I'd like to see, now that this information is out into the public, have the laggard offices picked up that, has that seen any improvement?

My only hope would be that...everything truly is on the table, that no program is sacred.

if you can lead the Senate to finally do something about our fiscally irresponsible ways and the skyrocketing national debt, you will have done the greatest service that anybody could do to our country today to protect our future

I think there is a real occasion here for a grand bargain with the American people.