Ron Wyden

I've been very concerned about the potential for violence against Iraqi translators that are currently working for our military.

I want to ask you about the unusual case of Ali al-Marri, the legal resident of the United States who has been held at the military brig in Charleston for the past several years.

What our country has always been about is protecting the public good--in this case, fighting terrorism ferociously--and at the same time, being sensitive to individual liberty.

I want to hold the record open on this point because I want to know specifically what you would do to beef up the fight against white-collar crime relative to what was done in the Bush administration.

I think we've got to expand the public's right to know, and that it's possible to do that while at the same time fighting terrorism ferociously.

I believe firmly, constitutional principles are fixed.

I certainly--that's my understanding, and it's my understanding that that's the view of others who have studied this.

I have been able to get the FBI on record saying that with their approaches it is possible to secure the information through interrogation of these human ticking time bombs without torture.

You now have to go in there and drain the swamp, and America has heard you say, this morning, to your credit, that that is priority No. 1.

Without China participating, it is not going to work.

I think you said that the U.S. will take the first step and hopefully China will follow.

I feel pretty strongly that going forward all the countries of the world, China and India included, have to be included in a carbon plan to reduce the emission of carbon.

Are you going to follow the flawed Bush blueprint for nuclear fuel reprocessing or do something different?

I think it is very important to do both.

The bottom line is this essentially green-lights more without dealing with the enormous amount of waste that we have.

I have raised this with, hopefully, the Secretary-to-be, currently Senator Clinton, about the need to engage in robust diplomacy.

I think in a very real way, the ball game on climate change is bringing the Chinese and the Indians into a global agreement.

Simply trusting China to--they have their own internal needs to have high rates of growth.

There is so much money obligated under these Federal tax rules that you could still honor those pledges.

This is not about a program or a bill. This is theory.

He wants to make it clear that they can keep the health coverage that they have, and that is going to be protected.

Barack Obama, to his credit, made two pledges in the campaign with respect to health care.

We have got to go in and thin out these forests because of the risk of fire.

But you have to examine this new piece of legislation through the filter of some very unfortunate history with respect to the original program.

What are the implications for small businesses? Because it seems to me absent the kind of cost containment reforms I would like to see, you set up a new entitlement program, small businesses get more taxes?