"I know you both know the 86th Mountain Brigade, that's upward of 1,800 very proud citizen soldiers from the Vermont Army National Guard are going to begin a deployment, either end of this year or early next year, to Afghanistan."
"I would add, again, Secretary and General, that I don't raise this just out of a parochial concern for the 1,800 from Vermont, but for obviously, for everybody who is there."
"We've written to you on the question of more transparency of where equipment goes--we appropriate the money for it, and we kind of lose sight as it comes off the assembly line, where it goes."
"I'm not quite sure how I see you doing this--how you get away from no more cross-leveling, and the rating."
"The labs should not be beholden to the law enforcement side, because labs should be about science."
"Today, we are going to examine the pressing need to strengthen forensic science in America."
"I hope that prosecutors and defense attorneys around the country are reading it and raising questions."
"I have seen the enormous cuts in the amount of money that is available for forensic science in the past few years."
"Forensic scientists too rarely get to review crime scene evidence in sleek, ultra-modern, state-of-the-art laboratories."
"I know the importance of this firsthand from the experience of my friend Kirk Bloodsworth, an innocent man who was twice convicted of murder and rape, served 8 years in prison, including two on death ..."
"I would think just to say from a law enforcement point of view, I would think they would want it."