half-a-trillion dollars in 1 year in trade deficit, we are still not doing something right.

I am worried about that, whether it is in my State or yours or any other State.

We have lost nearly three million manufacturing jobs in the past three years.

The money is not in there.

Overall, the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States is now at its lowest level since 1950.

The President's budget doesn't really match the rhetoric.

We were told that budget surpluses would continue on for as far as the eye could see--and instead we have gone from a record $239 billion surplus under President Clinton to a record $521 billion deficit under President Bush.

The administration's rhetoric is not going to do very much if you want to send your kids to school.

The economic outlook is less than encouraging.

I find the suicide rate alarming among our forces.

I'm sorry that this administration repeatedly, insistently, and unrelentingly justified preemptive war by insisting that Saddam Hussein not only had weapons of mass destruction, but he was hell bent on using them against us and our allies.

I said for those who have said this--suggested this at the hearing today.

this is not a partisan issue, and you certainly have not made it one--who are very, very concerned.

I think it is critical. I have heard great things about its performance. I hope we can get the funds to expand it.

the vast majority of our American men and women follow orders, do it very professionally, and make every single Member of the United States Senate proud.

Yes, would you have your staff talk to mine. Let us know where we are on that, because it is something I have followed very closely.

If they keep delaying it at the Pentagon, I think it is going to hurt your readiness.

Last year the subcommittee recognized that almost 20 percent of the National Guard and Reserve did not have health insurance.

I am concerned about the adequate health care for our armed services, whether it is active duty or Reserves.

I'll show you the correspondence that I sent to your office asking about these abuses about 1 month ago that were never answered.

I'm sorry that the President taunted Iraqi resistance fighters to 'bring it on' while our troops were still in harm's way.

I'm sorry about administration officials, led by the Vice President, repeatedly trying to link Saddam Hussein to 9/11, when there never was any link.

I hope that the bureaucracy will get off its duff and make sure that we develop a mail system that can get the mail that our deployed troops deserve.

We can replace an arm. We can replace a leg. And I do not say that in a cavalier fashion by any means.

Do we have provisions to really treat this? Do we have provisions to give the counseling, to do the identifying of it, number one; treat it, number two, and with useful numbers of our armed services at work trying to retain them and their…