So presumably somebody on the No Fly List who came in to purchase a gun----

I think we have had a good airing of it here today.

Attorney General Eric Holder supported closing the terror gap in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last year, and so does the vast majority of Americans.

global Islamist extremism terrorists have declared war on America, and they are attacking our homeland with increasing frequency.

An alert citizenry is one of the best defenses against terrorist attacks.

I must say I am troubled by your concerns about this proposal because I think it is very limited.

In other words, it was not legislatively mandated.

The bill you have introduced, I want to say for the record, has been referred to the committee of legislative jurisdiction.

It truly helps us draw attention to this gap, and hopefully it will encourage our colleagues to vote to close the gap.

I wanted to ask you to just talk a little bit about it and how it has worked and whether you think the Federal Government ought to try to encourage other communities to adopt the same kind of program.

I presume that if somebody who had risen to a high enough level of concern to be on the No Fly List comes in to buy a gun, the FBI is going to pay special attention to that.

The Second Amendment constitutional right, just like the First, our most prized right--free speech, assembly, petitioning your government, freedom of religion--they are not unlimited.

But what happens? I presume that some extra attention is paid to those people.

I think you set a standard of leadership and competence.

It is just common sense to give the FBI the authority to keep terror suspects from buying guns and explosives.

It just seems to me that knowing that any action here can ultimately be brought to court by a defendant, that you would want to know whether that person has gone in to buy a gun.

If you don't have that support, the program will be undermined.

If those two conditions are met, it is real simple. Do it.

You have to get away from the idea of measuring presence to measuring outcome.

Yesterday Senators Dodd, Collins, Carper, McCain, and I introduced the Fire Grants Reauthorization Act of 2010. The bill we presented to the Senate is a bipartisan piece of legislation that provides support to our Nation's firefighters and…

I think it might help to define 'replacement' and assure us, and those working with you, that this kind of replacement is on equal footing with 'reuse and refurbishment.'

One of the reasons for this provision is that the administration noticed that the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) Program had been canceled by Congress.

This is a reassurance to our allies.

I am proud to be here to support the nomination.

it does seem to me that this provision in the NPR takes the previous calculated ambiguity, removes a lot of the ambiguity, but, frankly, then restores some of the ambiguity.