I personally do not think the 2001 applies to this situation, I really do not, when you read it.

You cannot fight war by consensus. You cannot fight war with a collective approach.

Let me pick up on the point of ground troops.

You can repeal them as long as you have something else in its place.

Both of you seemed to indicate that continued congressional support would be welcome if it is a statement of unity.

Help us help you. Do not hesitate to contact this Committee for those types of legislative solutions.

We really do have a Committee that operates in a very bipartisan fashion, trying to solve problems...

I appreciate your willingness to serve this Nation, to sacrifice, and your families' willingness to probably see a little bit less of you...

I look forward to working cooperatively with the Inspector General in the Department.

I think it is absolutely critical that the Department of Homeland Security carry out all of its functions in strict compliance with privacy rights and other rights of Americans, including civil liberties.

The last administration has been a strong proponent--and it has gotten bipartisan support in Congress--to actually address root causes of folks in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador trying to get out of their countries, flee the murder…

I want to do everything I can to solve this problem in a very humane fashion.

If you have the right kind of surveillance equipment, you can actually make the needles bigger.

This dangerous legislation uses per capita caps to deeply cut and radically restructure the traditional Medicaid program.

These cuts would be devastating to state Medicaid systems and mean life and death to people with disabilities.

I understand the verification process in terms of whether one of these people who subscribe actually are part of that program...

So, a service provider basically sends an invoice to the FCC----

I am shaking my head again here.

Is that term not an oxymoron, 'government efficiency'?

It is great if you can get a phone, but if you do not have the broadband to be able to effectively use it.

Absolutely as a first step.

I think that there are merits to the first option. I also think there are merits to the second.

This bill, I think, is sensitive to those concerns because it proceeds from the sort of foundation of the antitrust laws.

Yes, I think it would be. We are in a situation right now where there is a great deal of uncertainty as to what active supervision means.

So, if we do not want to pay our creditors $65 trillion in interest payments over the next 30 years, we do need to address the deficit in Social Security and Medicare and just the entire Federal Government.