If we ignore these facts, we do so at the peril of our national security and increase the risk to those in uniform who serve our Nation.

Mr. Chairman, that was a statute that Senator Clinton and I put in. It's requiring the Quadrennial Review to specifically project the future.

These challenges are not insurmountable, but they will be expensive, as Senator Warner has suggested, to address.

the consequences of climate change, the global consequences, are likely to entail some very hard choices for the United States

The United States, hopefully, with the support of the Congress, having forged a legislation, can go to the international conference in Copenhagen, and become a leader.

let's think of the men and women in uniform and their families, whose missions, today, tomorrow, and in the future, could be definitely affected by global climate change, energy shortages, and the like.

And it's right in the law. It is in the 2008 authorization.

I just think that this is the time that Congress has got to forcefully lead.

the President, I think, has done a very credible job in showing leadership on this issue

Historically, this country has always helped the others. Our forces have marched forth from our shores hundreds of times since 1776, never to take a square foot of anybody else's land, simply in the cause of freedom and in the cause of…

I think it's essential that part of this climate change legislation--energy--slash energy--contain provisions on moving America ahead with nuclear energy.

This legislation is imperative. Absolutely imperative.