I believe that the Park Service should make every effort to allow the existing ranchers who wish to do so to continue to ranch within the confines of the bill's language.

Thanks for being on top of it. I appreciate it.

I want you to know that I share the chairman's concerns about the rural and community fire funding.

Finally, I just want to give you a challenge. There is a lot of marijuana being grown in national parks.

I wrote the bill specifically with the intent that the existing grazing would continue at the existing level.

So far you are batting 1,000. Let us see if it continues.

Last question. Because I was, in December, in Baghdad with Senator Biden, and then in Jordan at the training program with Senator Biden, who has very specific ideas on the number of security and police that have been trained.

See, the problem is, when we were in Jordan, and the head of the police training program sat down with us, they didn't know how many were actually in the field, because this was never vetted.

In this--that they actually were on duty----

I view that as an extraordinary--a high priority.

And this from a war that was based on what everyone now says, including your own administration, were falsehoods about WMDs, weapons of mass destruction.

It gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend and fellow Californian, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, as the President's nominee to be the next Secretary of State.

I was very disappointed in your statement. I think you blew the opportunity.

One of the things that matters most to my people in California and the people of America is this war in Iraq.

Perhaps you agree with President Bush, who said, 'All that's been resolved.'

There's a report that I read over the weekend that maybe a third will come home and need help because of what they saw, it's been so traumatic to them.

The 9/11 Commission said the NID should be placed in the Office of the President.

I believe it is very important that we get this right.

I have come to see the need, I think rather early on, for a National Intelligence Director, separate from policy.

there's a huge difference between what we're proposing and a drug czar.

Today, however, the fact that we don't have an independent head of all of our intelligence assets has become a significant problem.

Several of us on the Intelligence Committee are very troubled by what we see as fundamental, structural flaws in the community.

The first flaw is one of leadership structure.

I am hopeful that the exchanges of ideas will yield in the end to a bipartisan and enthusiastically supported reform that we can send to the president for his signature.

I think we've got to mix it up big time in this new world that we're in.