Dianne Feinstein

It's my understanding that the Air Force took a big hit and still is with respect to environmental cleanup.

This amendment does not cost. It is a sense of the Senate, and it essentially would allow large ports that need to produce security to do this through multiyear contracting or letters of intent. There is a real problem in going year by…

For the record, it is my understanding that the amendment had been presented to your staff yesterday. We have sought time. I recognize this amendment may not be one of your priorities. It is a huge amendment for many States that have very…

A large number of detainees are innocent. They're in the wrong place at the wrong time.

There is no way we can lose this war militarily, and there is no way we can win it militarily.

My very strong view is that this nation should always observe the protocols of the Geneva Conventions.

I think we always have to apply the Geneva Convention, because, with our Nation, regardless of whether it is state or non-state, we have a certain moral imperative that we cannot escape.

Last year, I asked you, at this hearing, about the robust nuclear earth penetrator, and you told me it was just a study.

Is my time--last question, I'll be fast.

Are we protecting warlords in Afghanistan who are growing poppy or producing heroin?

I'd like to ask you a question about the heroin--or the opium poppy production in Afghanistan.

I want to indicate my very deep concern about the fact that tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars have flowed from illegal heroin trade directly into the hands of terrorist organizations, like al Qaeda.

What have you done to remedy this problem?

Failure in leadership from the brigade commander on down, lack of discipline, no training whatsoever, and no supervision were the root of the problem.

National Missile Defense is not and should not be seen as a one-size-fits-all substitute for an effective non-proliferation strategy.

I believe it would be folly and far too costly to place too much of an emphasis on missile defense and to unilaterally develop and deploy NMD before we even know what defensive systems are feasible.

We need to spend our resources wisely to make sure that we can protect our nation from these threats.

I believe National Missile Defense is one of the key foreign policy and national security issues that we will face in the coming decades.

Some of my constituents are asking questions about the meaning of the small engines provision included in the fiscal year 2004 omnibus appropriations conference report. They raise the question about whether subsection (c) applies only to…

What we found was that the defendants had essentially all the rights, and a crime victim had virtually no rights.

In 2004, Senator Kyl and I introduced and subsequently passed the Crime Victims' Rights Act.

I was appalled when I learned that a victim, let us say a rape victim, had no right to be notified if her attacker is released from jail.

At a time when American troops are continuing to fight the enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is imperative that Congress do its part and provide the funds necessary to support the infrastructure requirements of our service members and…

The bulk of our problem, I am told by the Air Resources Board, otherwise I would not know, is under 50 horsepower. So it takes that right away. Additionally, Senator, I guess what got my dander up, was the SEC filing of a company when they…

I thank the Senator. I hasten to point out another attribute of this project. As the water quality problems on the Santa Ana River are gradually resolved--and this project certainly contributes to resolving some of those problems--the…