John McCain

What effect will this have on those E-1s on the lower end of the pay scale with respect to getting the last of our military personnel off of food stamps, or will we backslide and be putting personnel back on food stamps?

What is the projected pay raise for general and flag officers?

I am looking at the pay tables here. In 2000, the law prescribed military pay raises to be ECI plus 0.5 percent.

I was astonished to read on Tuesday that State Department spokesman Richard Boucher characterized what appeared to be an agreement to implement U-2 flights as, 'nothing worth getting excited about.'

Supporting the inspectors in these and other ways is not inconsistent with the position that the administration has correctly taken that the burden is on Saddam Hussein to show where the prohibited material is or what he's done with it.

We're also told that the administration is considering a wide array of far reaching proposals that would change the way the Department of Defense operates and the role of Congress in overseeing these operations.

The premature declaration that we've already shared all useful intelligence makes us seem excessively eager to bring inspections to a close.

Supporting U.N. inspections is an essential step if we're going to keep the Security Council together.

Another way to support the inspectors is to back up their request for U-2 surveillance planes with a U.N. resolution.

If there is any chance of disarming Saddam Hussein without war, it is for the United Nations to speak with one voice.

This budget proposes only a modest increase in defense spending at a time when our military is engaged in one war.

Funding for Navy shipbuilding is increasing, not as much as we wish, but clearly the curve is headed up.

We will begin fielding components of a national missile defense this year.

The sustained increases in defense spending we have made over the past 3 or 4 years are, I think, making real strong progress.

It's critical that we fully honor the services of our men and women in uniform and that we keep faith in their dedication to duty.

The fiscal year 2004 request of $379.9 billion represents a $15.3 billion increase over the fiscal year 2003 level.

General Jumper, an article in the Wall Street Journal on February 12, 2003 reported the Air Force will pay the Boeing Company and Lockheed Martin Corporation $538 million to keep both companies in the rocket-launch business because of the…

Senator McCain.--the United States of America should act?

Senator McCain. Can you divine the reasons why--Ms. Claussen, why, given this overwhelming body of evidence, that there would be a reluctance at least to start beginning to put into place the policies that would reduce the threat of…

Senator McCain. Ms. Claussen, you have heard me repeat the statement of the National Academy of Sciences ad nauseam. Do you believe that there is sufficient evidence that we should begin to act----

But if DuPont and ALCOA have actually saved money, why wouldn't a CEO or a board of directors sit down and say, 'Hey, we're--this is a way we can actually increase the--our profits and our business'?

Absent U.S. participation, how long do you think it'll be before it's a pretty robust business?

One of the objections to Kyoto, and there are several, is that developing nations are not included;

Thank you very much, Ms. Claussen. Thank you for all your hard work on this issue.

Thank you, Dr. Mahoney. Let me just tell you what bothers me a little bit about the voluntary thing before we close here.