We will continue to unquestioningly arm and support Israel.

we will continue to prosecute the clash of civilizations started by President Bush and accelerated by President Obama and Mrs. Clinton.

We will continue to support tyranny in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Algeria, and wherever we find it useful in the Muslim world.

the first and most important motivation of these young American Muslims to go to war is the interventionist foreign policy of the United States

I would appreciate it. We are going to give you some questions to answer for the record.

Can you give us a number?

It will defeat the purpose of this hearing if our questions are sidestepped through the use of bureaucratic doublespeak, as that will only try our patience and will waste our limited and valuable time.

I think all of us would be very eager to make sure that that happens.

If money is so tight and our weather satellite programs are so vulnerable, then perhaps the Administration needs to evaluate its priorities and determine which is more important: near-term weather monitoring, which can save lives and property today, or beefing up NOAA's climate portfolio in an effort to guess what the weather might be decades from now.

utilizing them as a 'silver bullet' is absolutely not appropriate

We need to look at all options to mitigate potential breakdowns in our forecasting ability.