And could you just give the subcommittee a general description of the Air Force presence and activities in the war theaters of Iraq and Afghanistan so we get a sense of assets and personnel and so on?

Just two other questions, if I still have time? What is your status with respect to standing up the new B-52 squadron at Minot Air Force Base?

We have very serious law enforcement problems on Indian reservations.

What about customers in rural states? ... they will get in their pickup trucks and their cars and drive a three-hour round trip to get service.

I am wondering who is making the decisions in this country about who is too big to fail and who is too small to matter?

If they do take our franchise, can they--can they and will they give us first option, if they decide to open up in that area again?

I appreciate the testimony, and I think we would very much like to get some reports back from you about your inventory, parts inventory, auto inventory.

The dealers have said quite the opposite, quite the contrary. It seems to me, to the automobile manufacturers, you don't have a business without dealers.

We need to streamline that somehow because we need to have energy development on these Indian reservations as well.

But this nutty idea of going out and hiring a bunch of Federal sharpshooters and helicopters, you know, the sky is the limit apparently with the budgets of some of these agencies.

We obviously need to be graduating more than 80 a year.

Congratulations on your selection for the head of the BIA.

I have a lot of confidence in you. So I look forward to working with you on that common sense solution.

The cloture vote just started, just an observation.

Given what has happened in the world in recent days, weeks, months, it seems to me that the issue of nuclear non-proliferation is unbelievably important.

bad ideas have unlimited shelf life here in the Nation's capital, and also that bad ideas are bipartisan.

We have had testimony from some laboratory directors about the substantial increased cost of the contracts to supervise these laboratories.

Well, at this point, we are not talking about the Reliable Replacement Weapon, or the RRW program, but we are talking about stockpile stewardship, which I understand is increasingly reliant on science.