If that is the number, that is a little town of 6,000, 10 cases of bladder cases is a lot.

I think that the infrastructure failure in water and wastewater is considerably worse than Mr. Silva has suggested.

So you would concur that our effort today to pass health care reform is critical to our economic future.

There are very severe, long-lasting costs associated with unemployment rates at the level we are seeing.

I think an essential element would be to try to reform health care in a way that controls costs going out.

Was the trajectory of Federal spending and Federal Reserve policy more appropriate at the end of 2000 or the end of 1999 than it is today?

I think from my view, the faster we get this accomplished, then we can move on to some of the other issues we have talked about today.

I think jobs are the issue right now, and I think it is not just today's incomes, today's production.

it is frequently the tactic of the polluting industries and of those who serve their ends to engage in the spread of doubt about the science

I look forward with interest to the letter from the distinguished Senator from Wyoming.

Even with the most dedicated and talented government in Kabul, Afghani Government, the ability to reach out into the provinces is limited.

Some of the criticism of even talking about a date... is that it would embolden the enemy.

My point is the difference semantically between 'plausible' and 'reasonable' is that 'reasonable' connects more directly to an objective standard; whereas, 'plausibility,' by its very definition, imports a subjective point of view of the…

that was agreed to by the Bush administration as a hard deadline without conditions.

leaking is politics in Washington. It's the way people expand their turf and make their moves.

we are sick to death of leaks out of the Executive Branch of government.

I am extremely proud of our Federal law enforcement officers, of our career prosecutors.

Are all of you or any of you satisfied with the existing legal structure within which you are presently operating?