The current schedule for NASA's first manned flight is 2021 on the Orion and SLS, but that is based on the President's budget plan.

Getting them involved in cooperation, getting them involved in caring about having a peaceful and stable space environment is something that I think is deeply in our national security and foreign policy interest.

We have, I think, an opportunity to serve our long-term national security and geopolitical interests with a program of space exploration.

It has often been said that space exploration is a 'go as we can afford to pay' endeavor.

We cannot change our program of record every time there is a new President.

I am supportive of DHS's efforts to raise the level of security at our Nation's chemical facilities.

Mr. Chairman, I hope you can understand the need to put some of this under one roof, because there is just too much--too many moving parts, and there doesn't appear to be one person really in charge.

I am trying to get us to some point of how we are going to bring everybody into a system, regardless of where they are.

As an original author of chemical security legislation, I am supportive of DHS' efforts to raise the level of security at our Nation's chemical facilities.

So if they don't submit it, what happens?

Do you believe the value of the RCTA program warrants authorization by Congress?

It would be fair to say that a relatively modest investment will keep these invaluable programs open and available for these hundreds of thousands of participants?

I rise briefly this afternoon to join my colleagues in expressing deep disappointment with yet another decision by the Obama administration to undermine the health care options of millions of Americans. As we all know, the President…

The Russian position, no one in the world believes it, is that these are not Russian troops which have occupied Crimea.

Will the new 913th Airlift Group require the movement or hiring of additional military and civilian employees?

It just concerns me a bit, as I look at what is going on now with some of our European allies, countries that have relied, to their detriment, on promises that we have made about the integrity of their territory.

I believe the Air Force must make force structure decisions based on long-term global force requirements, as well as concrete and defensible data.

As DOD will have to make financially tough choices and continue to scrutinize its finite resources, will DOD commit to funding the TDAI?