Why is the MDA not focusing its resources on operational testing before you buy more interceptors?

This year's budget request for missile defense is substantial.

I am concerned that in the near future a single high-technology missile launched by a State or organization may have the capability to defeat our defenses.

I must say it is reassuring as I hear your testimony to see how much we have done.

I would appeal to all of you to do what I am sure you will do anyway.

That is a relatively small percentage of our overall active duty personnel, in an area where you are really being asked to do a lot.

the question really for us as the authorizers, knowing that everybody would always like more, is to urge you to be very direct with us in telling us if you are not getting the kind of personnel and support you need.

In a country that I guess is about as large as California, with a lot of vulnerable targets obviously, and an enemy that wants to frustrate the progress, stop it, turn it around, and create chaos, how do we stop them?

Is our intelligence on the enemy there improving? It is not an enemy in a conventional sense, obviously.

General Eberhart, what is your center's relationship with State and local governments and local law enforcement...

Secretary McHale, are National Guard Bureau requirements being considered in any of these projects?

General Eberhart, in your written testimony, you point out that NORTHCOM has established a Combined Intelligence and Fusion Center...

Yes. Joe Lieberman is a loaf of bread that continues to rise. No toast.

The Independents will play a critical role for me tomorrow. I'm counting on them.

The Independents will play a critical role for me tomorrow. I'm counting on them.

That would cost middle class families in New Hampshire, an average family, $2,000 a year that they worked so hard for. He would take it back.

When you think about the Democratic presidential race, Joe Lieberman and John Kerry started the year off as the prohibitive favorites on the Democratic side, and both end the year at 10 percent or under 10 percent in most national polls.

IF Howard Dean had his way, Saddam Hussein would still be in power today, not in prison.

I would say that it was about four or five minutes in length and too late.

I hope my wife understands this. I'd like to party with the young lady who asked that question.

I was angered yesterday when I read about a lieutenant general in the American military who has repeatedly cast the war on terrorism as a clash between the Judeo-Christian values and Satan.

Changes in climate have major implications for human health, water resources, food supplies, infectious diseases, forests, fisheries, wildlife populations, urban infrastructure, and flood plain and coastal developments in the United States.

It is scientifically well established that the Earth's surface air temperature has warmed significantly, by about 0.6 + Celsius (C) since 1860.

Most of our confidence that the future will change is based on literally millions and millions of observations which tell us about the heat trapping properties of gases, not based so much on the performance of the planet this century.

We ought to act on the consensus that now exists to resolve the reliability problem.