Thank you very much, Chairman Udall, and thank you. Congratulations to Senator Burr both for your service on this committee.

What does Pakistan's inability... to detect Osama bin Laden within Pakistan say about the security of its nuclear arsenal?

Pakistan in many ways is both fire fighter and arsonist in our efforts to try and tackle extremism and terrorism.

One of the best things I think about the Kerry-Lugar-Berman assistance was an attempt to move from assistance government to government to assistance directly affects the Pakistani people.

I was concerned to see the COPS technology program, for example, zeroed out.

Mr. President, every one of us knows where we were at the moment we heard the tragic news of the attacks on this Nation on September 11. And I trust that all of us will long treasure the moment we first heard the great news last night that…

I have supported extension of the R and D tax credits, the 48 [c] manufacturing credits, the 1603 Treasury grants program.

Hopefully go just off the coast of Delaware.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to proceed in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I'm very concerned about that loss of early market leadership and intellectual property that seems to be going on whole-scale across whole families of technologies.

Mr. President, I rise today to introduce my first bill in the Senate, one I believe will promote competitiveness and spur the growth of sustainable middle class jobs. As I noted in my maiden speech in January, the people of Delaware sent…