I give support to Thurgood Marshall and SEED, and so does the chairman, and attention and support to Mr. Domenici's school because what you are doing is pretty terrific and it is working and it is showing us the way.

Does anybody have an idea--maybe, Ms. Baker, you could testify on this because it seems like we could--one of the great accomplishments of this hearing, Mr. Chairman, would be if we could explore with you all, the experts, a streamlined…

I will tell you from my political experience with the majority of independent, non-parochial public schools, the average of tuitions is about $15,000 to $20,000.

We need to tackle this as a country because we do need to protect our economy and this is having an incredible impact on our economy.

I listened to the full chairman of the Appropriations Committee and his cautioning all of us that we have no money whatsoever to deal with and even less than we probably think we do.

they warrant more than 8 percent or 10 percent or 15 percent or even 20 percent of the budgets that support their facilities.

I know that the Chair had spoken generally about the reorganization which we obviously generally support or just a realignment and the importance of refocusing our troop strength.

I think 40 percent, or 45 percent of our troop strength today is from our Guard and Reserve.

And to compliment you all on the way that you're doing that with the leadership team here in the city.

I hope, I'm certain that what you're doing is benefitting the Navy but the way that you're engaging in a very integrated process with the other parts of the government, as well as with the local community here in the city I think is going…

I think that is a concept that I'm hoping there's some consensus and unanimity if we fight jointly we should train, you know, jointly.

I just wanted to thank you for that.

There's a move underfoot with a broad base in our community to try to consolidate some of the different components.

I just want to communicate how happy the people that live in this neighborhood are with the way that you have conducted yourself.

I just hope that whatever we do we can minimize the cost to the taxpayer as the value of that property is added to.

Because I really appreciate that and look forward to working with you because it's of course important, you know, to our community and there's just such an opportunity if this would work out for the Navy to be benefitted, the taxpayers to…

This was not environmental. It was funding.

We would like to help the country get a greater supply.

While U.S. chemical makers have lost an estimated 78,000 jobs since natural gas prices began to rise in 2000.

As a Senator from Louisiana I am particularly interested in the analysis and testimony on the subject of natural gas.

In fact, U.S. natural gas is the most expensive in the industrialized world.

The political stability of the gulf, the trained work force that is in the gulf all lead to trying to promote production in the Gulf of Mexico.

I do have concerns about getting out of the fire into the frying pan with the same dependency outside our State.

If we want it to come domestically, I think we need to get clear about what the real potential is in the Gulf and act accordingly based on what is politically possible, scientifically sound, and environmentally responsible.

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