Senator Alexander and I and others are putting together an electric vehicles piece of legislation.

We have a significant need to do the research to try to evaluate how we build electric generating plants that are going to capture carbon.

I will be leaving in about an hour, but we will have someone take the chair at that point.

Except as a scientist, you know that that which seems far into the future becomes nearer and nearer the more work is done.

But in a broader sense, do you feel like the reduction in funds in the fossil energy account reflects less attention to and less interest in that area of energy?

We are going to have a challenge of reconciling the overall budget request to the subcommittee because we are not going to have a half-a-billion-dollar cut for water projects when this subcommittee completes its work.

But that is true of almost everything we invent. It migrates very quickly.

Nobody's been stronger in the Senate than Senator Lautenberg.

I mean, that's really alarming.

this will happen more slowly than we originally anticipated.

This country can't continue to do that. Its fiscal policy is absurd. We know better than this.

I applaud what you are trying to do to establish accountability.

the cost has just climbed way beyond that which is reasonable.

We've got to address all of these issues. This will not be a time, going forward, like the time that we've just seen.

I think--my reading of the START Treaty is one that does not impose any limitations on our response to attacks.

I don't believe there's any limitation in our response to attacks.

Did we miss some early-warning flags here on this subcommittee?

I am becoming more and more nervous about the July 2011 date by which the President talked about bringing troops out.