Joe Lieberman

Obviously, this Committee, Senator Collins, and I are very focused on strengthening the Department's role as the lead agency for protecting Federal Government non-defense Web sites and the critical private infrastructure.

Cybersecurity legislation is a top priority for this Committee. Senator Harry Reid has made it a top priority.

In my opinion definitely a necessary increase.

The Border Patrol has effective control of only 32 miles of the 4,000-mile Northern Border

I think that is a very significant conclusion. It makes a lot of sense to me.

That is great. I take you to say you are going to be driving training, at least, of local police departments in a counter-homegrown radicalization program.

The President's budget proposes a 22-percent reduction in the Coast Guard's Deepwater program

We feel close to the Department and to everybody who works for the Department and in the Department.

Are there resources in this budget that will allow you to begin to move forward on assisting local police departments that do not have that kind of program going now?

We felt the loss this week of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent Jaime Zapata, who was shot and killed Tuesday in an ambush on a Mexican highway.

You can depend on us to maintain the current JSTARS capability until and if we decide to migrate to another capability.

Secretary Clinton said yesterday that a turning point of the administration's consideration of what its options were and what it might do with regard to Gaddafi's advancing forces was the Arab League resolution over the weekend calling for…

A no-fly zone would be, 'too little, too late.'

It is a matter of such urgency.

Gaddafi's forces would prevail over the opposition forces simply because they were so much better equipped.

It has always been true that the F-35B was solely a Marine aircraft.

Thanks to the three of you for your service and for your testimony today.

I understand that, and it's, I believe, been publicly acknowledged, that the State Department at least has opened up channels of communications with the Temporary National Council or provisional anti-Gaddafi Government, which is…

I know the administration is considering a range of options now with regard to Gaddafi.

Sir, the good news is that the demand for SOF is higher than ever. The bad news is the demand is higher than ever.

Thanks to both of you. General Mattis, thanks for your service.

I have dispatched ships under the order of the Secretary of Defense that could provide options to the President.

I appreciate that reassurance. What you found at the defense ministers meeting is exactly what we found in terms of the cautious optimism at the Munich conference.

A failure in this first time at war, interestingly outside of the geographic area of NATO, would have terrible consequences for NATO's credibility.

I think it needs to be said these governments have shown some real political courage in being willing to commit to the alliance and to Afghanistan the forces that they have in the absence of political support at home.