I have long worked to improve and fund the LEAP program. As such, I was disappointed that the President's fiscal year 2011 budget eliminated funding for LEAP.

We have a challenge of modernizing our nuclear stockpile in both deployed and stockpile weapons, et cetera.

how do you believe we should ensure that there is adequate coordination between DOD, DOS, and USAID

One of the aspects of our response to these threats is the coordination between agencies of the government.

Do you believe civil affairs-type outreach in non-combat environments like Africa and Latin America is better suited to civilian agencies, or do you believe the military's outreach is an essential piece of winning hearts and minds?

At what point should the Court lose the benefit of the doubt that these are each independent on the merits decisions as the evidence piles up?

even in the best of times when the economy is doing very well and the temperature is relatively mild, there are long, long waiting lists in my State and other States.

The time to modernize TSCA has come.

So to put a limiter on that sentence, we do not think that EPA should be burdened with the determination that each chemical is safe for its intended use.

How well did that work out with tobacco? How well did that work out with lead?

I think part of it is because of what we have talked about previously, this sense that it is difficult to coordinate with MMS.

We have a chemical safety deficit in this country, and we need to catch up.

I am simply defending Senator Collins' rights. That is all I am doing.

I would rather solve that problem with protections at the border to make sure that harmful products are not imported to our country.

Congress should reform TSCA; there is an emerging consensus that reform is necessary.

Isn't that the purpose of environmental regulation, is to assure that a chemical is safe for its intended use?

I think that factor is not being considered enough by MMS in terms of what they are doing.

So it is from Caribou, Maine to Key West, Florida. We have narrowed it down?