Thank you very much.

General Meurlin, has the paperwork required for medical and physical evaluation boards been reduced in the last 2 years?

General Meurlin, have the processes been streamlined or automated?

General Meurlin, if a servicemember is not in the disability demonstration project--that is, the vast majority of servicemembers--what has changed since the 1940s when this archaic system was put into place?

When it comes to energy independence, which is a laudable goal, bipartisanly pursued here, the national laboratories, I think, can be very important pieces of that puzzle.

If you close Yucca Mountain, which apparently is the game plan now, under the law that created Yucca Mountain, high-level defense waste would have priority.

I got a statute passed that put penalties on the Federal Government if they didn't hit their timelines.

But, it is a place you would send the materials.

We made a bold decision at the time to leave some of this waste in the tank, save a lot of money.

I represent South Carolina, and obviously Savannah River Site's a big issue for the State.

We're way behind in construction there, and I know that's a different bailiwick.

I encourage you to stand up for the American taxpayer.

H-Canyon, to me, is a national treasure.

So, the bottom line is that the stimulus money, which is a 2-year funding stream, is not going to be used to create a program that has a funding stream past 2 years.

The reason this is important is because we've always wanted a pathway forward.

We seem to be spending a lot of money on cleanup and not advancing the cleanup agenda as much as everyone would like.

We need to find out as a Nation what to do with these folks because I think they're very dangerous just to let them go.

I do think that over time we want to make clear to Iran the full range of behaviors that we find problematic, that we would like to see change.

The Taliban were in power when al Qaeda was allowed and invited in to establish the sanctuaries in Afghanistan from which the September 11 attacks were launched.

Would you consider someone captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan an enemy combatant to be held by our forces?

the President announced, and you testified, that this new strategy is designed to defeat al Qaeda in Pakistan and Iraq.

The likelihood of fighting going up in Afghanistan this summer and spring is great, is that correct?

Thank you all for your service, particularly Admiral Olson and General Petraeus.

I think you're generally on target and want to give you all the support I can to continue to win this fight.

Bad teeth are doing more damage to us than the enemy.