As they often say, politics is the art of the possible.

CIEDRA will provide little, if any, additional protection for these special areas, their character and the landscape.

From an absolute legal standpoint you're absolutely correct. From a practical standpoint you and I both know that before they overturn the rule that we worked on it's going to be over our collective dead bodies.

The one, of course, most interest to me is S. 3294 which is the CIEDRA, what we call in Idaho the CIEDRA bill.

It was done through a process that's very much different than the way we do these things today.

I come at this whole proposition from a little different way than perhaps a lot of my colleagues do. All of this debate has been about global warming and about whether we should regulate carbon and how we should do that and what have you…

I want to thank both of you for that analysis.

Israel is going to make its own decisions based on its own sovereign interests.

If the support to Lebanon's Army is not going to secure Lebanon's borders... one might reasonably ask what it is going for.

Our policy on Hezbollah remains unchanged. Hezbollah, in its entirety, is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization and we have no contact with the group or any of its members.

I think those were regrettable statements.

We all know that the state of Israel has been firm in its determination to defend itself and, as such, will act when provoked to take military action.