I think you're a great group of folks and President Obama has once again selected some good individuals, especially in the armed services area.

If confirmed, I pledge to work to improve these services to the best of my ability so that our servicemembers have access to the fullest spectrum of health care possible; they deserve no less.

I truly believe we are totally underresourced up there for what is going to be necessary, not only today but into the future.

I think you answered--my second question was going to be that, in regards to other major systems, that those three stages should also be utilized?

Last because my time is up, I know you said in short order. How do you define that?

I remain, and continue to be, very supportive of this testing of the GMD system against a wide range of targets.

I was one of the first mayors when I served as mayor to sign the covenant with the Army.

How will you deal with the conflicts that might occur when a budget constraint is put on you in regards to testing?

So it's a piece of the equation, what level is the question.

We have to make a decision on what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

There is a policy discussion that needs to occur if the belief is that the system should be developed beyond what we would call a rogue state capability.

He is poised -- to go to Washington, D.C., to bring the 58th vote to the Democratic Senate, as you say, just two votes away from that all-important 60-vote filibuster-proof majority, which would allow them to ram their agenda through the…

Well, it seems there is one more vote for Barack Obama's agenda in the Senate.