Ernest F. Hollings

What we need is an intelligence coordinator, both domestic and foreign, within the National Security Council.

The buck stops here with Harry.

I disagree with the tack of your particular presentation here this morning.

We want to work together to be able to implement that commission's recommendations next year.

I am questioning on whether or not we can agree on the export of jobs.

Respectfully, I think it is a very easy choice, not a hard choice at all.

You want jobs, I want jobs, we all want jobs.

That is not a hard choice, that is an easy choice. Give the money where it is producing jobs.

Since you mentioned it, the $45 million of the EDA, $40 of that $45 million has already been committed and now EDA is distressed.

You believe both should be eliminated?

But you are eliminating them. Are you supporting the budget or not?

You just red-line it and we are talking about getting jobs and helping manufacturing and we are going to appoint an Office of Manufacturing Services, and yet we are eliminating the services.

Well, the policy is, then, to export the jobs, because I am just reading here where that is what they are doing.

You have been in the business 30 years. If you went to an oil conference to try and export your oil and all of a sudden foreign delegations were taking over the majority of the activities and the speakers and everything else, we are going…

Do you think the Department should be leading efforts to export jobs, for the elimination of American jobs specifically, for sending jobs to, let us say, China?

I want you to retire with me.

I think the greatest need is to have a reasonable debate of parties who put the nature of the science above special interests.

Of course, the assessments do not take positions on particular policies, except to evaluate the differential climatic implications of various options.

My personal wish is you could hear nothing but opinions of those dedicated to honest and balanced assessment of the literature.

I was one of those very saddened, Senator Hollings, when the OTA was eliminated.

I was misled. I voted for that thing. But how was I misled? Number one, you had aluminum tubes, you had mushroom clouds, you had yellow cake, you had the Vice President saying they reconstituted nuclear.

That isn't any politics. I can tell you that right now.

We don't have a money problem. We've got a political problem.

This has been a political flop, and it's our task to make it a political success.