Johnny Isakson

We believe that it is important to do as much as we possibly can to support this TFG government as one of the last opportunities for bringing about stability in that country.

So would a coordinated strategy require some settlement of that border dispute?

Thank you again for the opportunity to testify. I'm happy to take questions.

We do have evidence that al-Qaeda is there as well, correct?

I never want to be late for anybody named Johnnie Carson, I can tell you that.

I take it that the two organizations--the two terrorist organizations, al-Shabaab and the other that you mentioned--really play on the nationalist pride of the Somali people.

So it's under the auspices of the U.N?

I hope you'll work to make sure it's statistically accurate, fair, and it's a real count and not a model count.

I have some concern with the slowness of the deployment of next-generation as far as FAA is concerned.

I really encourage that type of input to be brought in.

I think those families deserve, particularly on the qualification questions, with regard to that aircraft and the pilots, a response so that something like that does never happen again--

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And congratulations to all of you on your appointment.

I was very pleased, as was Chairman Feingold, with the appointment of Gen. Scott Gration as the special envoy to the Sudan.

Has the U.N. made specific requirements of the Sudanese Government with regard to the protection of these NGOs?

I have a sincere and deep interest in this issue and that in 10 days, Senator Corker and I will be in Darfur.

Nuclear in the mix, I'll guarantee you that.

We have a significant challenge in the United States transportation system.

I have told everybody this is the best pick the President has made.

I would hope that we wouldn't pass a restriction before that comes in because we'd--like in Sago, where we finally learned what actually caused the accident.

I would comment Chairman Murray that good things can happen from what this committee does.

I think we've got to invest more in the infrastructure, and, for that matter, the transportation infrastructure, because it is difficult to get around.

I am extremely concerned with what's happening in Darfur.

It is very important for us to understand what our diplomatic capacity is, and to strengthen it wherever we can.

I was thinking, as you said that, when we provided the PRTs in Iraq with the funds for a combination of microloans and ultimately what became the $3 a day to The Awakening, we turned the paradigm of the entire conflict, and then our troops…

I think, in the 21st century, Africa is the continent for the United States of America.