Proper coordination and concurrence procedures ensure that urgent security capacity building requirements do not undermine the United States' overarching foreign policy priorities.

The Taliban is really right now--here we are in April--feeling what the summer's going to look like and it's not going to be a pleasant summer.

The information domain is global in scope and our enemies will attempt to use this domain to achieve a comparative advantage.

I urge you, as Senator Shelby did, to keep your focus on that issue.

Mr. Reid. Yes. Over the last several years, the Department has worked to drastically increase intelligence support to warfighters across the board.

they are dealing with an uphill battle with a longstanding oppressive regime that makes little distinctions about attacking civilians.

I think the signals you're seeing of reintegration, reconciliation movements within these populations of Taliban is exactly the effect that we intend to create.

I reclaim my time. I thank my colleague for his comments, and he's absolutely right. I agree wholeheartedly with your comments that the economic potential that we see not only with Marcellus shale but with all of the shale formations. When…

Reclaiming my time, I thank the gentleman for his comments and I thank the gentleman for participating in this this evening. When I first came to Congress back in November of last year, after we took office after our special election, one…

My colleague's exactly right. And if you can join me in this conversation, because by no means am I an expert in this technology. But what I have read and researched and what's been presented to me makes sense. Because you're absolutely…

I thank my good friend from Pennsylvania. I do want to get into the process. I have a chart here today on the floor of the House to kind of go over exactly what we are talking about when it comes to this--I thank my colleague for joining…

That's exactly what I saw in your district, in your great district as I came down and toured one of those sites. You got a real sense of the difference of having the multiple vertical locations that would talk about clearing trees and…

That's one of the great myths. I've heard these myths throughout my travels throughout the district and down here in D.C. that the hydraulic fluid, that there is some secret, that they don't want to talk about it, they don't want to…

On the chart that we have here this evening, what we are talking about is that hydraulic fluid is pumped into the horizontal area. Primarily that water is hitting that area, and it is then coming back up the well bore to a certain extent…

My understanding of the processing, correct me if I am wrong, is we are essentially dealing with a two-step process, if you would, in developing the well site. You have the surface up here; you have got the initial, where there is a…

I think that articulates a great potential that we see with the Marcellus shale formation in particular. Its location in the northeast area of our great Nation opens it up to development to that densely populated area around New York City…

I think that's a point that needs to be stressed is the redundancy of how the initial 1,000 feet, plus or minus, whatever the regulatory agencies say we have to have for that break-off point and that multiple protection to make sure that…

I would echo my colleague's comments about the State agencies being the appropriate agencies to oversee this development. In New York State, right now we are under a moratorium at the local level that has stopped any development of the…

Thank you very much, Mr. President. We are on the verge of a possible government shutdown, which is extraordinarily regrettable. Controlling the deficit and paying down the debt is a critical priority of this country and must be done. It…

I believe the chart identifies what we're talking about here. We're talking the aquifer up here within 1,000 feet of the surface. Mostly, in our area, I know the water table is at about 500 feet, maybe 200 feet, people are putting their…

I hope we can have this conversation many more times as we go forth and bring forth science and data on these issues. The operation, when it originally comes in and the development of the well site does require some industrial-type…

I thank the gentleman for his comments, and I reclaim my time. As both of my colleagues have articulated, this is a game-changer, but at the same time it's a game-changer, I think everybody in this Chamber and everyone across the Nation…

I was just going to move onto that, but I will yield to my colleague from Pennsylvania.

I would suspect that's not geographically, sort of, distributed.

I am pleased to be joined by Senators Murkowski, Durbin, and Tom Udall in the introduction of the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act Reauthorization. This legislation continues the important work of my former colleague Senator Gordon Smith…