I think if the administration had properly put the issue before the Congress, the likelihood is that it would have been supported.

If we stand for anything as a country, then we would have an obligation to declare those sorts of acts of a magnitude that we would not recognize the validity of that government.

So if Tiananmen occurred today with the Chinese Government rolling out tanks and killing hundreds, if not thousands, of its own people, that it would also fit the Panetta rule.

I would submit to you there was plenty of time in Libya.

If the government is so repressive that it deliberately kills its own people--that is the standard where you say that government no longer has validity--then it does not matter how powerful that government is.

I got the same answer from Admiral Locklear, commander in chief of PACOM, during an open line telephone conversation on July 28.

I agree. Well, let me ask Ms. Burkhalter because I am over my clock here.

It is all about the beer.

I think we really need to work here in the Congress on having a clear, objective methodology that everyone can understand around the world.

I am committed to trying to make this policy work, at the same time to reduce the frictions that are causing it problems.

It is a fact that Virginia in the past had race laws which regulated the activity of Virginia Indians.