Saxby Chambliss

That's even in spite of the fact that we now know that the assumptions that you based your decision on last year were wrong.

I support the Deputy Secretary's decision, as stated in the December 16, 2009 letters to Senators Schumer and Cornyn, that DOD 'will designate all military installation voting assistance offices as NVRA agencies.'

I'd like for you to go through some benchmarks relative to these training numbers.

The critical point that we can seriously think about turning that country over to the Afghan people from the standpoint of security--not governance, but from the standpoint of security--is the point in time when the military as well as the…

Do we intend to ratchet that pay up so that we can at least compete financially with the Taliban?

It's unbelievable that, in spite of the difficulties that we've had in Afghanistan, are continuing to have and will have, the morale over there is spectacular.

I have to say that they're doing an amazing job over there, with respect to educating children--we've gone from 900,000 to 6 million children in school.

If we are unable to do that by then, I think we have to reassess our strategy.

However, having just heard your opening statement, I thought you were much stronger, even much more powerful.

But, I worry about what's going to happen in 18 months. Because security in Afghanistan has to be the way forward, not just from the military standpoint.

That's why I think what you are saying is important.

If the President comes out and says that, 'In 2013, the United States is out of here,' then we're going to sit back and just wait until 2013.

I think there are great opportunities here over the next 18 to 24 months.

You and I have previously discussed the fact that whatever we do from an additional regulatory standpoint, we have to be very careful because if we are not careful, then what we are going to do is overregulate the U.S. markets and drive…

It is imperative that we take the right kind of action--which I emphasize 'the right kind'--to make sure that we put tools in the hands of our regulators.

It is imperative in my mind that the Senate Ag Committee should be engaged in the development of any legislation addressing financial regulation.

As we move forward, we want to make sure that we are putting the right kind of regulations in place to ensure that our regulators have the ability to make sure that we do not have additional products that are developed that will cause…

I think we agree with you on that point, and I am curious about your thoughts on the language that is in the House bill that is currently out there.

There is no more important issue than the one that we are going to be addressing.

Even if you had an exemption, there is no problem with you disclosing all of the financial transactions involved in those derivatives

If we had total transparency... would not that have put not only CFTC in a better position...?

Let me go to one other area that we have talked about before, and you know my concern regarding, making sure that we don't take any action from a legislative standpoint going forward that handicaps U.S. markets as competitors.

One practical aspect of that that I have a problem with is, for example, Delta Airlines, who is a big user of this type of transaction, having to put up an airplane, a 777, for each transaction.

I find it... troublesome that when the report was issued yesterday that over a million children every day are faced with low food security.

The fact that the SNAP program can swiftly serve those in need highlights one of the program's key features.