Jon Kyl

But if I can interrupt you, how do you--some three people rented an apartment that had only magazines in it.

It has always been focused on how to protect our constituents and fellow citizens.

Well, if I could just interrupt, these are your words, not mine, the 'all crimes, all hazards' approach.

One reason I mention this is that yesterday Senators Lieberman, McCain, and I held a hearing in Phoenix about the drug cartel activity coming through Mexico and spilling over into the United States.

In retrospect, knowing what we know about 9/11, you know, a light bulb would go on in our mind.

Because of the goodwill of all the parties here, and to some extent the relative simplicity of the issues, this water settlement came together quite quickly and I think is in very good shape.

The tribe, backed by the United States Government, has made claims now to those tributaries, and this settlement settles all of those claims, provides the White Mountain Apache Tribe with just under 100,000 acre feet of water.

This White Mountain Apache Tribe settlement stands out because ordinarily Indian water rights settlements are very difficult, time consuming, hard to put together, costly and they just are difficult.

The main point is to get folks up to Phoenix so then they can either go east, or west, or north.

I have always wondered about the comparison between Tucson and Phoenix in this regard.

Be straightforward about what is occurring here and ask for help.

I need to clarify something--I will ask the chief this, as well--but I am a little bit dubious of the notion that all the violence is, as you said, almost exclusively bad guys on bad guys.

I appreciate that. We cannot solve the front license plate problem, though I assume that the first panel should be contacted about that.

I, too, have enjoyed our various meetings about different kind of problems. It is so distressing, just heartbreaking, to hear the kind of stories that you are talking about--to bribe people on the reservation and it must be just…

Just, for example, you talked about the reporting of statistics. I would not suggest that the numbers here are a result of the fact that Phoenix reports all of its murders.

I think that the governor needs to get to the Navajo Nation.

Unquestionably, I doubt there are any independent operatives in the market today.

We need to recognize the outstanding work that is being done everyday under very dangerous circumstances by the Federal officials, the State officials, and the local officials.

SCAAP is important. In 1997, when we first applied for SCAAP, we received about 33 percent of our actual costs associated with incarcerated criminal aliens. Today it is 9 cents on every dollar.

In order to get resources in Washington, we cannot sugarcoat.

Bad guys on bad guys

A lot of it is one drug cartel against another.

It is the Federal Government's responsibility to protect our borders.

Clearly the resource issue has to be taken back to Washington, DC.

As Senator McCain said, the real story is the human tragedy story and not just the statistics.