Susan Collins

General Petraeus, you testified that no captured terrorists in your AOR have been sent for detention in Guantanamo during the last 18 months.

I want to bring up an issue that is an increasing problem in my State, and that is the problem of drug trafficking across the northern border.

I'm very concerned about whether adequate resources are going to be invested so that we can respond effectively to a weapon of mass destruction.

I want to associate myself with the comments that Senator Lieberman made about the change and the new teams.

Although the President's fiscal year 2011 budget includes slight increases in MILCON and SRM funding, I remain concerned about the material condition of Navy shipyards.

I would encourage you to take a close look at that approach, which has been used successfully in the past.

I just want to pledge to work with you to make sure that you have the funding needed.

I view this as creating more opportunity for women in the Navy to go through the ranks.

I want to associate myself with the comments made by the Senator from Hawaii about the importance of our public shipyards.

You have said strongly and repeatedly that you view 313 ships as the minimum for our fleet.

I know, from our discussions, that you also share my concern about the enormous increase in suicides in the Army.

6 years ago this week, at a hearing before the Personnel Subcommittee, you and I had a discussion about the problem of sexual assaults in the military.

Are you aware of any impact on combat effectiveness by the decision of our NATO allies to allow gays and lesbians to serve openly?

I support the change in direction.

I am pleased to be a cosponsor, in fact an original cosponsor, of what is called the Federal Agency Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2009.

If I could just respond as well.

I believe we need to send a similarly clear message.

So my final comment is to urge you to take a far harder line on the information-sharing agreements, and if countries are not willing to abide by that and share information with us, then we should kick them out of the Visa Waiver Program.

It has not been exercised.

In the aftermath of the Abdulmutallab case, there was some confusion over which agency considered itself ultimately responsible for revoking of a visa on terrorism grounds.

Well, it seems to me that everybody in TIDE ought to be identified and then brought in for an interview and a determination made.

Clearly, there needs to be one in Yemen.

I think that it is unacceptable that fewer than half of the 36 countries currently participating in the Visa Security Program are now sharing all the information on dangerous individuals that is supposedly required to take advantage of…

From my perspective, the State Department had sufficient information to revoke Abdulmutallab's visa.

Do you believe that the Department has the authority to establish a visa policy that would require the suspension of all visas held by the individuals in the TIDE database pending further investigation?