What specific steps will you advocate to stop Iran's nuclear program? And I'm talking about beyond the noise that we hear from Europe. This Senator doesn't think that's gonna cut it.

How about getting Europe to go along?

I hope the Chairman will call for hearings on this, and I fully support him.

We've got to keep our eyes on President Chavez.

I would ask you to maintain the Office of the Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues.

Are you ready for sanctions?

Hopefully, sooner, than later.

There seems to be some flap over this very courageous Cuban resident name Oswaldo Paya.

Now you can't tell me that all of this was going on with seven or eight Army privates, and so the question is where did that failure of the command and control occur?

a concern that I have regarding the upcoming BRAC process is that DOD and Service civilian leaders may be predisposed to discount or ignore the views of the Services' uniformed professional leadership.

There was a new criteria that was added for the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission to consider, which was the measurement of an installation's value to homeland security.

As long as the uniformed military is directly involved in the decisionmaking, then I have a lot less worry.