I look forward to working with you and with NOAA when we deal with these issues that affect my State or really our region.

I had a veteran in my office this morning, a Purple Heart veteran, by the way, who had a 9:30 appointment.

ACLI thanks Senators Kohl, Bingaman and Isakson for their bi-partisan sponsorship of S. 2832, the Lifetime Income Disclosure Act.

I want to commend you on the talk about open space and green space and reforestation.

I really appreciate what past administrations have done to use either the right to abstain or the right to veto resolutions.

Hopefully, this may be the opportunity that the U.N. can be strong in forging a meaningful cease fire.

What's going on in Darfur is unacceptable, and we need to get that fully operational and working.

For the first time in 37 years, Congress actually got to the point we could ban asbestos.

Those are extremely important. Our State has one of the largest veterans populations of any State in the country.

I want to thank you and commend you on your service to the country and thank you very much for being willing to assume the responsibilities of the VA.

I hope, as you look at examples of IT and success in the VA, that you will look at the Eisenhower Army Medical Center at Fort Gordon and Augusta VA Medical Center's uptown facility.

On behalf of my Georgia farmers, I would just add that there is nothing they can do about Mother Nature and cattle.