Kit Bond

We need to do more than just keep up with inflation.

Would the Soyuz meet the test that the Gehman Committee applied to the shuttle?

I am appalled that some quarter of a million veterans on any given night in this Nation are homeless.

Obviously, you have to have the good science first, and how do you go about addressing the public concerns?

When they face these ghoulish and horrific circumstances, it is not about politics.

I am alarmed by this disparity, because the decline in funding for physical sciences has put our Nation's capabilities for leading the world in scientific innovation at risk.

Well, this proposal has a ticking time bomb in it.

To what extent are there still--what is the risk to U.S. soldiers and Afghan government, civil government supporters, from terrorist attacks now in Afghanistan?

Well, I would agree with you. The competing in the world of ideas, showing a better way, the other path rather than The Shining Path in Peru was very important.

I am concerned, and I know some of my colleagues are concerned that--a question was raised earlier about does this money allow the Iraqis to pay back the debts to France and Russia and others who supported Saddam Hussein.

Well, as I recall, when the President announced that we were going to conduct a war on terrorism and bring the terrorists to justice or bring justice to them, I don't believe he put any time limit on how long it was going to be to win that…

I believe it was President Kennedy who said we'll bear any cost.

Well, I think we're going to have a lot of legislative input on that, and that's--I asked that for my own edification, because I believe that will be part of the discussions, as well.

Do you have any ideas on what the mix of Guard and active forces will be over there next year?

Actually, when you get them to spool up, that is really the best time to deal with them, is it not, if you can catch them?

There is a real challenge when abuse occurs in the home. Getting that reported, I guess, is the number one problem.

You know, I am interested because, obviously, one of the abuses that I mentioned earlier was financial abuse, and a long, long, long time ago I used to be in the consumer fraud racket, and fighting consumer fraud in the attorney general's…

We simply cannot afford to look the other way and sweep the problem under the rug.

Well, so training and perhaps one or two specialized personnel in the Department who would have specific training...

That would require a very effective State or State and Federal entity that was actually doing something.

Yes, well, the first time I went to a county fair and a sharp operator bilked me out of my week's allowance, I was too embarrassed to tell my parents I had blown the whole two dollars.

Yes, that and trying to avoid the problem so it does not get to a criminal prosecution is ought to be the goal and certainly that has been the theme here.

The victims of elders abuse do not want to prosecute.

I appreciate very much the testimony that both of you provided.

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