I have questions about how the proposed cuts to the Mars science program will affect U.S. leadership and critical capability in landing and operating spacecraft on the surface of Mars.

Why set about a plan that is impossible to execute when even at the end of the plan, you are no better off?

I am a logical thinker. I am a physician, a business person.

the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge and the 1.4 million people who visit it each year are critical to the economic vitality to the Town of Chincoteague.

the public must be given an opportunity to comment on the proposed draft environmental impact statement before and not after the agency implements its preference.

It begs the obvious question: Why don't you just give the visitors the choice?

It seems like, again, there is this overwhelming desire to pretend that we are going to return the United States to the condition it was 300 years ago.

I mean, we are talking about a 1 percent chance of making that happen.

These lands are for the enjoyment of Americans, not for some plan that says, we are going to restore it to its native state.

the reason they recommend no funding for the refuge revenue-sharing program is because refuges are economic engines for the local economies.

the Fish and Wildlife Service is considering management alternatives, which they believe will have a devastating economic impact on their town.

How often does the VA grant fiduciary power to a trusted family member who has power of attorney as opposed to a paid fiduciary?

I believe the Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act is unconstitutional to begin with.

I think we are at a point where we are trampling on the Constitution for no real reason.

I urge us to be very cautious as we start to take away what is one of our fundamental freedoms.

the mandate that the Church provide and pay for services that they are opposed to brings it in contradiction to the First Amendment.

I have deep reservations about the proposed shift of Virginia class submarine from the fiscal year 2014 out--to outside the FYDP.

What help does the taxpayer get if somebody can't meet the nut and then has to get out of his house, bring down the whole neighborhood?