I don't know how you deal with the USF issue, which, by the way, is an issue I care deeply about.

Why would we rather take the $50 to $60 billion in private investment, put that in jeopardy, and try and shoehorn that around this issue?

I think one of the greatest threats to pipeline safety and integrity--and it has been talked about at some length today--comes from accidental damage due to digging and excavation.

You've noted that state authorities have primary responsibility over gas distribution pipelines and that many states have chosen to adopt regulatory standards that are more stringent than Federal ones.

What role do you see new technologies playing to improve the safety of pipelines?

Can the USF proposals in the National Broadband Plan be carried out without reclassifying broadband under Title II?

I think there is a consensus in the Senate that we need to fix some of these problems we are facing, one of which is the expiration of unemployment insurance for people who are unemployed. There are a lot of tax provisions that are…

I offered an amendment a week ago during the debate on the extenders legislation that is still on the floor of the Senate that would have paid for all the things the Senator from Michigan would like to see paid for, and we have things we…

I do think this presents to us a very clear choice about how to accomplish what this legislation strives to accomplish; that is, as we have all talked about--something I think both sides agree on, Democrats and Republicans--extending…

this amendment is, in my view, probably the most important thing that we can do for the economy right now. The Senator from Montana talked about job creation. Everybody in this Chamber cares about that. I think Democrats and Republicans…

I think we have a responsibility to be fiscally responsible in Washington, DC. As I said before, we have people all over the country making hard decisions with regard to their personal and family budgets, with regard to their small…

Isn't it time we stopped burdening our children and our grandchildren with massive debt? Our office is being flooded with calls concerning the extension of unemployment benefits. We want to extend the unemployment benefits under this…

I do not think anybody is denigrating the quality of Federal employees. To the contrary. We are all Federal employees. We all know Federal employees. We are all friends of Federal employees. And we have a lot of Federal employees who do a…

This $14 billion is not nearly sufficient to develop and acquire a next-generation bomber, a follow-on ICBM, a follow-on air-launched cruise missile, and a conventional prompt global strike capability.

Thank you very much for providing your insights and responding to some of the questions that many of us have on this very important subject.

the New START is supposed to be about strategic offensive nuclear arms.

I believe that the Russian strategic force under New START will be ICBM-heavy, with many of those ICBMs MIRVed.

DOD expects the current nuclear bomber force to remain in service through 2040.

the prohibition on the conversion of missile defense interceptors to offensive launchers set forth in Article V will have no operational impact on U.S. missile defense efforts.

the decision to agree to a limit of 700 deployed strategic delivery vehicles did not result from a change in the security environment

I would be very concerned about endangering the triad if the number of strategic delivery vehicles dropped below the 800 number.

the completion of the New START makes clear that we are committed to real reductions, and to upholding our end of the bargain under the NPT.

The United States will continue to configure and posture its forces to maintain the overall force's combined qualities of survivability, responsiveness, flexibility, and effectiveness for both large-scale and limited contingencies.

Thirty more years is a long time for a bomber that was built 50 years ago.

Mr. Miller and Dr. Payne, with the New START's limitations going into effect within 7 years, at what point do we need to begin making the changes necessary to comply with this treaty?