Buying a home is the single most complicated financial transaction that most Americans will ever undertake.

I think it is important that we are looking at these reforms.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, very much for holding this hearing.

My major concern has been and continues to be, where will the principal responsibility for analyzing foreign intelligence rest?

We cannot blur that responsibility. We have got to focus it so that we can hold folks accountable if there are failures.

I am not satisfied with what I understand the answers were.

His answer was, that is correct.

We want to consult with them and to work with them in terms of how to respond to what is obviously a crisis.

the administration is trying to put a label of a deployed national missile defense system on what is really a test bed.

General Kadish, the 2004 national missile defense system to be deployed in 2004 relies on Aegis ships off the coast of North Korea to protect Hawaii from missile attack.

It will take place and should take place.

If that is more comfortable for you, that is fine with me.

It is appropriate that those issues be debated, including the question of whether or not it would be wise to initiate an attack against Iraq without the support of the world community acting through the United Nations.

Your number one unfunded priority was for 4,400 additional active duty personnel.

Are we getting cooperation, Admiral, from Indonesia in terms of the war on terrorism?

Those of us who have questioned the administration's approach, including this Senator, will now be rallying behind the men and women of our Armed Forces.

This committee has historically been committed to ensure that the men and women of our military service receive the best equipment, the best training, and the best support that we can provide.

Well, the one example you used this morning is the one we've taken care of, we legislated that issue so that the Migratory Bird Act no longer applies to military readiness activities, including training.