I support strong budgets for you because, as I mentioned earlier, long-term stable investments in scientific research and development is what makes our Nation strong.

I'm far more interested in an aggressive R&D budget that benefits the Nation as a whole than I am in a long, slow, drawn-out transition.

I am a big supporter of your programs and believe that the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden is one of the premiere labs in all the DOE if not the world.

I really believe it's short-sighted. I hope we'll be able to improve on that this year before we complete our work.

I think the enjoyment will have been better in the past than this year because of the tremendous constraints on the budget.

I realize that the most important thing Congress can do in the short term for the renewable energy industry is to get a series of productive tax credits into place.

Funding for research in the hard sciences is one of the very best and most appropriate investments taxpayer dollars can be made for this country.

I think this is short-sighted in the long term.

Congress should remember that U.S.

These American military personnel who are tortured and brutalized, this administration won't give them the time of day.

We appreciate you being here today to explain this massive supplemental budget request.

I am most concerned, as I know you are, for their safety and about when they can finally return from what has become a rather long deployment.