Bob Bennett: “I would very much appreciate it if you would sit down with Secretary Veneman and consider all of the issues confronting…”

I can understand the impulse for a moratorium. I am not at all sure that a blanket moratorium as broad as this one will produce any higher degree of safety than a more targeted kind of thing.

Brett is the most qualified person any Republican President could possibly have nominated.

I think the outcry would be very, very strong. There is a huge conflict of interest here, and such an individual should not be included.

But just because you have the right to do it does not mean it is the right thing to do.