There is a very robust study proposed in Senator Collins' amendment that Ms. Claybrook indicated is best exercised with the current rule in place in order to capture the full data.

I cannot imagine why anyone would want to suspend rules which are in place to ensure the safety of everyone on the road by mitigating truck driver fatigue.

Senator King. General Shelton, during the hearing you mentioned that the SpaceX Falcon 9 will likely only be able to support 3 of the 10 configuration types that the Atlas V currently supports.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I apologize for being a few minutes late. Like you, I am trying to balance a lot of different commitments today.

the short answer is that sequester would affect what we are talking about here today, whether it is planning for a new engine or the launches or the acquisition of various launch vehicles.

Senator, you mentioned this was a record-breaking hearing, and it is for me because it is the longest SASC hearing that I have been to where the word 'sequester' has not been mentioned.

Are we not worried about that anymore, or is that no longer a factor?

I understand block buys are better than one off and you get a better price, and you have gotten that better price. But I think as a general principle, competition is where we ought to be heading.

I think having a sole supplier creates risks for the country, not necessarily national security risks, but certainly financial risks.

Clearly in an ideal world, we would want to make our own engines and have control of that piece of the industrial base.

I believe that we need to move toward competition as rapidly and efficiently as possible just from the common sense competition is better than monopoly approach.

This strikes me as a low-risk, high-consequence kind of situation.

There may not be a short answer to this, but clearly one of the other things we have to ask about is the cost implications of developing our own engine.

You see it as part of the appropriations process, in effect.

until we put in jail a lot of people who are committing these scams, we are not going to see real progress.

I want to thank you for calling this hearing to explore once again the dangers posed by con artists looking to swindle older Americans out of their life savings.

Well, the public is reporting, if you have got nine million scams reported to the FTC, including 127,000 imposter scams just this year.

We can't ignore the legitimate cries for help from refugee children.