This is the time we should be increasing our commitment to education, not cutting it.

I want to know who the HUD official is who is supposed to go out and look at that.

the administration request for a $4 million earmark for Teach for America is puzzling.

Would the Soyuz meet the test that the Gehman Committee applied to the shuttle?

This year's budget, however, will probably be the most difficult and challenging we have faced.

I do not want Wal-Mart medicine for my vets.

I am alarmed by this disparity, because the decline in funding for physical sciences has put our Nation's capabilities for leading the world in scientific innovation at risk.

I would like to go back to the CARES discussion and ask you about Chicago.

In addition to the obvious benefits of CARES, I believe it will also spur some major construction spending.

We need to do more than just keep up with inflation.

If HUD truly wants to allow PHA's to meet local housing needs, where there's a shortage of housing, where the rents have been driven up, why not allow PHA's the ability to use Section 8 assistance to develop more low-income housing as part…

We need to look at not only how are we helping the poor, but how are we helping the middle class.

This is the time we should be increasing our commitment to education, not cutting it.

It does seem like the decision came out of left field.

Do you have any ideas on what the mix of Guard and active forces will be over there next year?

Well, I think we're going to have a lot of legislative input on that, and that's--I asked that for my own edification, because I believe that will be part of the discussions, as well.

To what extent are there still--what is the risk to U.S. soldiers and Afghan government, civil government supporters, from terrorist attacks now in Afghanistan?

Well, as I recall, when the President announced that we were going to conduct a war on terrorism and bring the terrorists to justice or bring justice to them, I don't believe he put any time limit on how long it was going to be to win that…