Well, that is a consideration--we cannot do no solution. I do not think we can do that. So let us find the delicate balance.

Mr. Chairman, I believe so. That question never came up because it was never a question of whether it was not to be covered.

The good news is that the insurance industry is clearly capable of taking care of the losses that occurred on September 11.

Yes, sir. It is called the Wind Risk.

Were I still the insurance commissioner, I would try, Mr. Chairman, but I am not sure I would be successful.

What we ought to approach this challenge with is the question, how are we going to protect America's insurance consumers.

That is correct.

Neither can we allow the insurance industry to use the September attacks as an excuse to shirk its rightful role and responsibilities.

We cannot let that happen.

Tom Harkin got it right. I second that.

Some of our most productive 'leap ahead' technologies have often been associated with space.

I can assure you that the Democrats in the Senate want to move forward quickly.

That would have been one thing. But to just say, there is anticompetitive practices going on, and that is the way it goes, is unacceptable to this Member of Congress.

I thought it was a very unfortunate opinion that the Commission issued last week on gas prices.

I happen to think the Federal Trade Commission, as Senator Hollings suggested, is one of the most important places in government from the standpoint of the consumer.

Remember, the history of deregulation is supposed to bring more competition, but what it has really done is bring consolidation.

I think it is about as anti-free enterprise as anything you can find.

Most of the Western states refiners prevented their jobbers from competing with them to supply branded gasoline to independent dealers in metropolitan areas, a practice called redlining.