I am particularly interested in the subject matter of this hearing.
Thank you Madam Chairman for calling this hearing today to examine the President's proposal to form the Terrorist Threat Information Center ...
We need to be careful to limit the confusion in our intelligence analysis and collection.
My concern then--and now--was that there would be duplication of effort in the intelligence arena.
I am pleased that you are holding this hearing today.
I am concerned that there may be too many centers being created to respond to the same threat.
His answer was, that is correct.
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.
I do not know that anybody has officially told us that. Is that in fact correct?
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...
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 longe...
The Navy is busier than it was last year. How do you square that?
There was no doubt in our mind before we left that our military is by far the best-trained, best-equipped, and most capable fighting force i...
Here is my question: have you provided an assessment of the military utility of the national missile defense system to be deployed in 2004?
They are focused on their duty and their mission, and that they are aware of the fact that should they be called upon to go to war, that the...
