Johnny Isakson

It is important to get the Africa Bureau and the Mid-East Bureau coordinating on Somalia.

I think you are a terrific nominee for a very difficult post, but exactly the right time.

I have to say of all the nominees by the President for his Cabinet or for White House appointments that I have interviewed, Dr. Lubchenco is the most engaging and qualified.

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

We are so concerned that opinions overtake facts, and the next thing you know you are making decisions based on an insight but not really sound scientific evidence.

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

Our houses are down 25 percent in the last 18 months. Equity lines of credit are dissolved because houses are underwater. One in five houses in the United States is worth less than what is owed on it. It is rare when you come to the Senate…

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.

The bill as it is written applies to any claim back to May 28. But the way it is worded, it appears to me it is a claim filed and leaves it open for any past claim to be brought up that wasn't previously filed. The amendment simply ensures…

With deference and respect for the chairman, this amendment would do nothing to a pending case. This amendment will only apply to a case that has not been filed and could have reached back all the way to the civil rights era of the 1960s…

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

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

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

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.

I will not make an opening statement, but I do have a couple of--well, one question and one point to make.

It is very important that we see to it that that is a seamless transition.

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 would just encourage you, as you find ways to mitigate problems, find ways to seek solutions, to reduce pollution, that you recognize the tremendous difference of soil erosion, sediment from State to State, from region to region.

I hope you will consider, in that type of a situation, when you have something that is totally beyond the control of the farmer or the rancher, that you will, rather than levying taxes without consideration for where the source might be…

Because there are times that States' self-interest actually can use the law to its advantage to not do something because the victim is downstream getting penalized.

I hope you will consider, in these unintended consequences, wherein clean air standards, even clean water standards, point pollution is where you address the problem, at the source, not the unintended victim, somewhere either downstream or…

Because of Ms. Browner's waiver with the developer, the developer then took that site, redeveloped it.

An intolerant attitude caused a problem to be perpetuated.