Ben Cardin

Your concerns you are characterizing as basically technical and clarifying?

You are supporting without qualification seven of those nine, if I understand correctly.

We appreciate very much the strength that you bring to this effort, and we look forward to working with you.

The amount of food that it takes in every day is having a dramatic impact on the balance within the region.

It is not only important for clean water and for environment. It is a critically important industry and brings in significant revenues to our communities.

S. 1214 is a critically important bill that will do much good in protecting our fish habitat.

We think that is absolutely the right thing to do, that you are moving forward with Native Americans.

I would just encourage you to be as open as you can on the procedures that are being used so that we can, in fact, justify the issues.

We might be able to prevent 80 percent of the attacks, and I made the comment we would never do a defense budget based upon an 80-percent efficiency.

I strongly support [the closing of Guantanamo Bay].

I think there are a lot of positive reasons to use Article III courts, particularly considering the history of how we have not only ignored international laws, we have ignored our own laws, as the Supreme Court has held on previous…

I really do think we've had, for a long period of time, a serious problem of Americans saving.

We need to get back to policies that encourage domestic economic savings.

We'll take you up on your offer on the EITI and ways that we could be helpful in dealing with international institutions to leverage their importance to transparency in the participating countries.

That gives us another reason for immigration reform.

Are you satisfied that the current implementation of these countermeasures is consistent with our privacy laws?

How do you raise awareness when you do not know, in fact, that you have been compromised or that there is something in your software or hardware that can be used against you?

I must tell you I think this is a very sobering subject.

I think our first line of attack is to try to get the right intelligence information and develop the technologies in order to counter what those who want to attack us want to do.

We are vulnerable from terrorist attacks against our country using cyberspace.

80 percent against an attack on our country would be, I think, unacceptable.

We will make sure that is the case.

We certainly don't want to give a State the authority to issue permits of operations in another State.

I wanted you to go through that because, Senator Crapo, we are very proud of Governor O'Malley's management system that really holds departments accountable for certain specific results.

You also mentioned the fact that the Bay legislation calls for the formal incorporation of adaptive management.