To hear that with respect to the unmanned aerial vehicles where those who would have the best knowledge...

Rather than creating this separate DNI with the CIA, FBI, DIA and every other agency still in place, why doesn't it make more sense to bring all of the intelligence community under one umbrella

Under your bill, who would brief the president?

I just think it's important not to see this as a zero-sum game.

I do want to pose one question for you to consider either during your testimony or perhaps in follow up if it does not come up there.

However, we cannot take the positive economic news for granted; Congress needs to do more to continue to promote a healthy economy.

the recovery is sustainable.

The thing you are here to report on and the thing you are in charge of, monetary policy, I think you are doing a superb job.

First, we need to address the looming problems in the various entitlement programs.

We need a Director of National Intelligence to provide the coordination and the information sharing.

I want to applaud you for your longstanding leadership in spearheading this initiative for major reform.

We needed real reform within the intelligence community to function as a community.

Discoveries in the medical sciences in recent years are bringing new hope, new treatments, and new cures within reach of millions of our citizens.

But clearly, more needs to be done to reach consensus and this hearing is a worthwhile first step.

I have spoken before about the work that Senators Enzi, Alexander, and I are undertaking to write the Higher Education Access, Affordability, and Opportunity Act of 2004.

Thank you, Chairman Shelby, for convening this important hearing. I always look forward to the opportunity to hear from Chairman Greenspan.

This deficit requires us Americans to borrow about $2 billion from foreigners every working day. No expert I know believes that this is sustainable.

I find this troubling. I guess I find any chart that all of a sudden seems to leap out in some different direction from what we have generally been experiencing a matter of concern.