I would really like to know from the time that former Under Secretary of Defense Ken Krieg was involved just what we have accomplished.

The American people finally are realizing that last year, out of every dollar we spent, we borrowed 41 cents.

I would encourage you to get together a little bit more and try to dot the ``i''s and cross the ``t''s and move ahead.

I was encouraged by how the Department is addressing the great challenge posed by the simultaneous drawdown in Iraq and surge in Afghanistan.

I think if we can move incrementally forward to tighten the Transport Rule or to pass the legislation that you and Senator Carper have been working on and crafting, we can meet a lot of the objectives that we have been working on for over…

One of the biggest mistakes I made was to put Christine Todd Whitman in charge of the environment.

I would be interested in knowing how many other States find themselves in the predicament that you do.

I know we wanted to get the ambient air standards taken care of as soon as possible.

I sometimes look at the emphasis that we are placing on greenhouse gas emissions because that is an international problem that we can impact upon.

If Congress passes a climate bill then industry knows with greater certainty what the future holds.

The point is that the issue here is that you have States that feel that they are being penalized because other States aren't doing what they are supposed to be doing.