Hillary Clinton

It's stunning to just run through in your mind the implications of just that paragraph in this book.

I am extremely pleased that the clean school bus program is proposed for funding at $65 million.

I think that the problem is that there is so much information available about mercury that is in the public record.

I want to thank the Administrator for his role in getting the World Trade Center expert technical review panel started.

this budget clearly states that environmental protection is not a priority for this Administration.

the sad truth is that this mercury proposal will leave hundreds of thousands of children behind at birth.

I am still of the opinion that we not only could do much more for the environment.

I think we need to clarify this. There is just such confusion.

We are in a box that we don't need to be in, but apparently we would rather stay in the box than get out of it.

It is discouraging because every year that goes by, we hollow out the commitments of previous generations.

I think that the research in this area is critical to go on.

how radically we have moved away from regulation based on independent findings and professional analysis.

they believe, and I agree with them, would be actually a step backward from the Clean Air Act.

I am concerned about the use and misuse of science.

I don't think I would ever be offered and don't think I would accept.

I am also concerned about some very old problems, and the recent unclassified study by the Army's Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth...

Does the internal processes review also include looking at these individual cases that have come to the attention of the press?

We are not about to give you a blank check of $10 billion to be used with no oversight.

We really need to clarify this, because obviously this is a matter of some concern to a number of us.

It is not in the 2005 budget?

You will keep this committee informed as it goes forward?

Mr. Secretary, when Senator Reed and I were in Afghanistan over Thanksgiving we learned that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) had not yet met its obligations or its commitment to provide additional troops for the provisional…

Secretary Roche, most of the focus for the Global Defense Posture Review, in conjunction with Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) 2005, has been devoted to how many Army divisions or brigades may be redeployed to the United States.

I am still bewildered by the delay that we have seen with respect to NATO deploying further assets in Afghanistan.

But Mr. Secretary, that was for a discretionary pool of $10 billion to be used as presumably you saw fit.