President Bush's budget for the EPA stresses results over bureaucratic mandates and processes: cleaner air, cleaner water, cleaner land, as opposed to more paperwork and more lawsuits.

Ultimately, we agreed to withdraw our complaint in return for the White House's guarantee in writing that the National Assessment does not reflect policy positions or official statements of the U.S. Government.

Yet, somehow the EPA revived the National Assessment by submitting it to the United Nations as Chapter 6 of the Climate Action Report 2002 as a, quote, 'policy position' or an official statement of the U.S. Government.

I would just like to ask you, Governor Whitman, can you identify any Superfund site--past, present, or in the pipeline--where an identifiable and viable polluter has not been held liable, consistent with the law, for their share of…

I wish that veto had not taken place.

It's a very frightening thing.

I thank both of you for your courageous answers.

I was deeply concerned when you took away the live-fire training capability at Vieques.

We need to get on with the F-22, we need to get on with a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) cannon that can be fielded and can be competitive with potential adversaries.

Isn't this exercise that they refer to by the U.S.S. Carl Vinson the same exercise that we do on a regular basis virtually every year?

We were spending more money in Camp Lejeune to protect the species than we were on ammunition.

I know you have been good stewards, all of you have, and that is the problem.