Dianne Feinstein

That is absolutely unacceptable.

I wish this were California wine.

None of those other States have lost. Only California has lost. And something is not right.

I will ask my staff to do it so that I get a clear picture.

I think, I must tell you, is grossly unfair and unacceptable.

I see California in a lose-lose-lose position in terms of money.

Thank you for your leadership and support for the geosciences.

As you deliberate appropriate funding levels for these USGS programs, please consider the important public policy implications these choices entail.

As of April 1, a CAL FIRE rank-and-file firefighter earned $64,760, nearly 15 percent more than a comparable Forest Service firefighter.

I can tell you it is out there, it is a problem.

I wonder if just having ATF, which has always had, in my view at least, a restricted role, is enough to stop this.

I would appreciate if you would look at that. This is a very unusual situation, it seems to me, and a horrible one.

The more we do that, the more we back up, and it hurts our strategy.

I think we have the strategy right. We're resourcing it right.

I'm too familiar with the Soviets having had 110,000 troops there and still losing.

I know you're making changes and maybe they work and maybe they don't work.

We have extraordinarily serious concern involving the waste of many, many dollars over a period of years...

I think the benchmarks are important and I think making an evaluation a year from now of where we are is important.

90 percent of the weapons that we traced that the Mexicans recover are source state here in the United States.

I think Senator Durbin is absolutely right. From what I hear, it is a lot more than just a few hundred.

I think he has put his entire political career on this effort to fight drugs, and I think he needs every single bit of our support.

It ought to be pretty clear that they are transferring weapons.

Yes, but, clearly, it is not enough. I mean, they are all over Mexico.

You are a very brave man, and I thank you for that.

It is unacceptable to have 90 percent of the guns that are picked up in Mexico used to shoot judges, police officers, mayors, kidnap innocent people, and do terrible things come from the United States.