I've worked with Dick Durbin and Russ Feingold and myself on this, trying to do an initiative there to get the commodities coming out of eastern Congo to come out of licensed mines.

We remain deeply concerned about the human rights situation in North Korea, including labor and political prisoner camps.

I just don't see any reason by what North Korea has done that we would want to use this to bribe them.

General aviation is a huge industry for the country and certainly for my State, a $150 billion industry in the United States.

I hope you will work with General Aviation on the air traffic controller system and on NextGen, and also on the how you pay for it.

I think so. It's just--it's one that we're concerned about because if it's funded inappropriately, you're going to reduce the use of general aviation in the process, or you're going to hurt safety in the process, either of which I think…

do you indeed intend to sell Plum Island in calendar year 2010 and use the proceeds from this sale as an offsetting collection for funding the construction of NBAF in fiscal year 2011?

I think it is something that matters, has some urgency to it, needs to move forward as quickly as we can.

Isn't it now the case that it is much easier for one man's home to become another man's castle?

So, you will have to make the cut point, or the call on this for H1N1 by when?

But you're going to have to do them back and forth. This is going to be both animal and human that the research needs to take place and you're going to have to work with CDC and other places to make sure these are, they go back and forth.

It is a tough issue because we need a lot of support and help within the agricultural industry, but it also has to be, you know safe, that is safety first.