So the security conditions are difficult enough. That's no excuse for the pledges not being fulfilled, is it?

I think it was the wrong decision, but it was surely wrong not to include the chiefs.

A decision of that magnitude which has had such implications and such ramifications surely should have involved our top military leadership.

The standards which are in the House and the Senate bill, I take it, are adequate as far as you are concerned in the energy bill to achieve the authority that you need to make mandatory these standards, reliability standards?

Can you refuse, then, to certify an RTO?

FERC indicates it is not a clear authority to assure reliability, but the regulations which have been issued, the orders which have been issued by FERC, suggest otherwise.

That would be helpful to us, I believe.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Would that be helpful if we could learn that to see how well prepared we are, if we could perhaps ask the CDC, for instance, to make some kind of spot check assessment as to what percentage of recommendations have been adopted?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

My major concern has been and continues to be, where will the principal responsibility for analyzing foreign intelligence rest?

His answer was, that is correct.

We cannot blur that responsibility. We have got to focus it so that we can hold folks accountable if there are failures.

I am not satisfied with what I understand the answers were.

But you did not have an intent. As I understand.

I want to just ask General Shinseki about his reference to the missile defense system.

I want to concur in what he said about our borders.

Would you take a look at the Senate bill 6, which was introduced by Senator Daschle and others at the beginning of Congress?

It is appropriate that those issues be debated, including the question of whether or not it would be wise to initiate an attack against Iraq without the support of the world community acting through the United Nations.

Do you know what its intent is? Have you asked the people who put the language in here what its intent is?

I also believe very firmly that the Iraqi leaders should not infer from these debates that America will not be united in support of its forces in the field.

The North Koreans admitted that they have a secret uranium-based nuclear program, in contravention of four existing agreements.

Here is my question: have you provided an assessment of the military utility of the national missile defense system to be deployed in 2004?

General Kadish, do the Aegis ships to be deployed off the coast of North Korea as part of the Block 2004 system have the demonstrated capability to track an ICBM targeting Hawaii from North Korea with enough accuracy to prosecute an…

It is difficult, it seems to me, to argue that that is still a classified issue when the Assistant Secretary of State has made a statement on the record publicly about that issue.