I was unclear from your testimony whether you all actually consider it a cut or it is a flat budget from over last year.

We need to have a multi-year plan.

I want to thank you for holding this hearing, and I would also like to associate myself with your remarks.

I think it is doable, even in the economic climate we are in with the Obama Administration.

I just want to remind them that the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has done two of the four key models used by the U.S. climate program.

Thank you, Chairman Rockefeller, for again focusing this committee's attention on cyber security.

Senator Udall and his staff also played a very positive role in finalizing the legislation.

We have to look at it comprehensively and study it.

These resolutions have been passed as legislative efforts began with former Sen. Pete V. Domenici, and are now maturing under Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall.

Climate change is a moving target, and clearly what would happen behind us to the east on the Organ Mountains could be completely different than what we saw in Hatch or down in El Paso.

I think that we can reconcile these things and still do what these areas and the people here deserve.

There has been a real attempt to try to deal with the realities in working with the Border Patrol and having an understanding with them.