If you were to guess, which model do you think would be superior?

I believe we have to rely on Congress.

Thanks a lot. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Let me just close with an interesting article that I read in Newsweek where basically Secretary Robert Gates was talking about when he came in, Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said there were 17 layers between his command decision and the…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, first of all, for your leadership, as well as Senator Collins, on this issue, and for holding this hearing.

If we sit back as a Congress and do nothing, doesn't that just feed right into that complacency?

While many of us recognize the need to accommodate our tourism industry, we are in opposition of the Federal Government purchasing more land in our county.

we are asking for a level playing field that, you know, we have the same access to the programming that our competitors do

how do we really get to the bottom of this?

my concern is that additional information starts coming out, other stories come out month after month after month, and we need to get this behind us.

Forty percent is a very high percentage that would not report.