I can assure you that my colleague, Senator Mikulski, and I are going to do everything we can to restore it.

It is essential that we match the rhetoric of holding polluters accountable with a new reality in strong environmental protections and enforcement.

We can and must do better.

I am telling you, Mr. Administrator, that I personally, and for the sake of the people in Libby, Montana, ask you to make this your priority.

I cannot understand why this Administration does not want to extend Superfund, that is, the fees for Superfund.

A clean-up as important as Libby, that is as well-managed as I'm told it is, deserves the full support of EPA headquarters.

Look at me. Do you honestly think there will be a sex scandal?

This was horrific, unacceptable, damaging behavior.

to make sure that we complete the mission we started with success, and to return our service men and women home as soon as possible in peace, and in what I would describe as victory.

That is an important point and I accept it. There may be terrorist groups that have come in from outside, but the point is that from the point of view of your forces terrorism is terrorism.

What you would like to submit in writing is what your top unfunded requirement would be.

It is of enormous importance now in the wider war against terrorism because of the forces that are engaged there.

It is inexcusable that these brave men and women are not adequately supported by their leadership.

There is nothing in Iraq that belongs to the United States of America, and we have to have this courage to look at the Iraqis when we think they are ready and say: This is now your street to patrol, this is now your city to control; and…

Please continue to support all our men and women in uniform. Please keep America the true leader of peace in the world.

The budget before us represents a peacetime budget. It fails to include funding to pay for the incremental costs of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I know we share that goal. Of course the worry would be--and I am sure you will not do this--that the transfer could occur prematurely, so just while the Iraqis were beginning to assume sovereignty that vulnerabilities or even, at worst…

I certainly feel a sense of pride about what we did together and a confidence that the result was to make the American people and the world safer than they would otherwise be.

As you advise the Secretary and equip and staff General Abizaid, I take it that you have no doubt that part of the element we are fighting in Iraq is terrorists.

Saddam Hussein represented a great threat that had to be confronted with military force.

It was reasonable to conclude that Iraq posed an imminent threat.

It is important that we move from this period of perceived occupation to one of partnership.

General Schoomaker, Admiral Clark, General Hagee, and General Jumper, in response to the many lessons learned from the military's difficulties in post-war Iraq, I understand that the Pentagon has begun an investigation into the creation of…

It is essential that there be an inquiry into massive intelligence failures relative to the presence of WMD in Iraq.

I believe it is absolutely essential if we are going to be successful in Iraq.