Arlen Specter

Your Department nor this oversight committee is in a position to make that kind of an intensive investigation.

Are you not in a position, knowing that, to impose a sanction if one is appropriate?

Well, I do not know how the Senator from New York can say there is a defect in judgment when I have not asserted anything yet. All I asked, Mr. President, was a question as to whether he considered Arlen Specter a far right extremist…

So my question to the Senator from New York is, Do you consider Arlen Specter a far right extremist militant?

It seems to me, after considering the matter and the gravity of the risks which our fighting men and women are undertaking in Iraq, and the risks to the Iraqi people themselves, that it is an appropriate time to make a formal demand on the…

Yes. I support this approach proposed by my colleagues from the Energy Committee and assure them that, given a sufficient allocation, I will support funding for education in the FSM and RMI through the new supplemental education grants…

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I think that Senator Clinton has put her finger on the critical point about the Palestinian Authority repudiating suicide bombing.

That's the first time I've heard any hearing doing any good, but----

Let us know what is being done at the present time----

To combat that kind of inciting video of the suicide bombers and what you have plans to do to come to hand-to-hand combat with that kind of trash, garbage, and incitement.

Well, it's a subtle matter as to how you combat it.

Well, okay, that's good news.

Anything that, head-on, hits the inducement to these young Palestinians to commit suicide with a bombing?

Any television? Curricula is very passive. Television is very active.

Where they refused to sign the pledge, do you advance U.S. aid to them?

Do the current textbooks being given to--in Palestinian schools to fourth-graders, fifth-graders, sixth-graders, seventh-graders contain hateful information about Israel and Jews?

The subcommittee would like an answer to the question specifically.

Well, we'd like to have it, because every year we take a look at your request for money, and the budget is extremely tight, and we'd like to know what value is being received by the U.S. Government for the $17 million a year.

Well, are you essentially saying that the way things are today, with former Prime Minister Abu Masen having departed, that there will be no further payments by the U.S. Government to the Palestinian Authority?

$20 million was given to the Palestinian Authority to help Abu Masen in his effort to become the Prime Minister.

The characterization at the end about child abusers is a vast understatement. They're civilization abusers.

I found these videos to be absolutely shocking--absolutely shocking that teenagers... desired goal in life is to be a suicide bomber.

If we move ahead with greater speed, which we will be able to do on a grant instead of a loan, it may well be that we can cut down the time we will be in Iraq, that it will facilitate the starting of electricity and the infrastructure of…

There are a number of calls from both Democrats and some key Republicans, including Arlen Specter, for someone to come out and say something and clarify all this.