This plan would destroy decades of U.S. space supremacy by pinning our hopes for success on unproven commercial companies.

The 2011 NASA budget is $19 billion, $276 million more than 2010.

I want to say promises made, promises kept. We are really going to go after that fraud and abuse.

When you use that phrase, they hold their sides and laugh. They don't think that we really mean it.

Do you feel that you have enough resources to be dealing with this magnitude of caseload and also with the fact that this is now involved with international activity?

It is clear that the administration, and more specifically you, Mr. Administrator, do not believe that American leadership in human space flight is a priority worth fighting for.

If this proposal is the best that we can do as a Nation, then we do not deserve, I believe, the rich heritage of human space flight.

It is time to retire the space shuttle, and the President provides for that at the end of calendar 2010.

I believe that there hasn't been nationally, in every agency, the kind of vigor that we need really in pursuing Medicare and Medicaid fraud.

I believe that there is a real commitment on this subcommittee, and people like Senator Tom Coburn had excellent ideas.

I will say, having been through this path before, I am cautiously optimistic that we are on the path to get that accomplished.

And I know Senator Shelby feels the same passion I do.

The country is at war. The country is familiar with our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we are at war right this very minute with cyber attacks on the United States.

I believe it is an abomination to victims, law enforcement, and the Constitution when Congress, the Department of Justice, and the White House blindly ignore the professional opinion of the most renowned DNA experts in the world.

I want to acknowledge that you did oversight of the project, and I know--I believe you have been personally involved in overseeing this.

I like the tough talk. We have to ask some tough questions, though, about another aspect.

We all have to feel we are in this together. So this isn't about finger pointing and so on, rather that we all have to take ownership for the safety offices.

If you can't get to work, even if you have had the best rehab, or keep your doctor's appointment, but there needs to be a way then to consider how at the national level to be able to do that.