Many, many roads have been built over the last 40-50 years that are not on there, and structures, improvements and what have you.

It is a seaport. So long as the dams remain in the lower Snake River, it will be a seaport.

I think that--after this hearing and after my trip and what have you, I think all of us should compliment the UAE, No. 1, for being a friend of America in the region, being as open and transparent as they are, and including the United…

I mean, they are, in very good faith, wanting to do just what they're telling us they want to do, and that is develop, for the future and to meet their energy needs, this nuclear power.

It seems to me it would be very, very naive for us to believe that if we just walked away from this, the UAE would abandon their efforts to do this.

I think everyone shares the objectives that Senator Feingold stated, and that is to prevent proliferation.

I think certainly we should continue to negotiate and work in good faith with them, to help them accomplish what they want to, because what they want appears to be in the best interest of the United States also.

The thing that troubled me was the lack of sense of nationality amongst the people.

As I close out my time here, maybe both of you from State could comment on my view that we may be better off with the agreement, when it comes to proliferation, than we would be without the agreement with the UAE.

the United States is well-poised to help

Unless we have their active cooperation, I just don't think that we are going to get any real traction in this campaign.

I think Senator Risch made a good point about the fact that an agreement like this could provide better opportunities.