I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

346

There's something very fishy there. We had people before our committee who were well trained in the detection of low levels and higher levels of chemical exposure. They were picking this up on very sophisticated machinery, they were picking it up out in the field, but somehow when they reported back to higher ups it did not go very far.

185

We are facing a national crisis. We had a very serious situation before Katrina, ... It is very frightening for people to see the price of gas at the pump head to three dollars a gallon. It is very frightening for older people to wonder whether they will be able to heat their homes this winter.

155

The Republican leadership today demonstrated a blatant abuse of power in subverting House rules and a blatant disregard for the needs of the American people by passing this sham energy bill.

150

We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.

114

I think the senator has looked out at the political landscape. Perhaps we'll see the country go much farther to the right than he is comfortable with, and he is prepared to stand up for Vermont and America and do the right thing.

111

By and large, eight years after the war, the U.S. government has done a rather poor job in responding to the needs of tens of thousands of veterans.

103

This privatization scheme is a bad idea.

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