A lot of serious allegations against him that I would want to check out and I'm doing it.

We don't just spend money and say, look, we spend money, we don't just say, here are the program names that we have.

What can we do to help?

Mr. President, let me wholeheartedly agree with the Senator from Oklahoma on Mike Pompeo, as well as the comments he has made about Jim Bridenstine.

Mr. President, I rise today to talk with this body about the NASA Administrator. Later today, we are going to have a vote that is extremely important for the future of NASA and the future of space exploration, what we are going to do with…

I have no objection. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the request, as modified, is agreed to. The Senator from North Dakota.

Mr. President, let me, first of all, join my friend from Illinois in this tribute he is making to Tammy and the baby. I do have to correct him on one thing, however. He talked about diaper bags. They don't use diaper bags anymore. They are…

Mr. President, I know there is a lot of competition for the time right now, and I feel badly that I finally got to the point where, in order to get the message out--it is a message many people think is not significant, but I assure you…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that at the conclusion of remarks by our leader, Mr. McConnell, I be recognized for 45 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? The Senator from Illinois.

Wouldn't the Federal regulation be duplicative? And it seems the costs would be higher while there would be little environmental benefit.

As a general rule, Democrats think things are done better when they are regulated from the Federal Government, and we live with this every day. I am of the opposite view.

I do have three questions I want to make sure we get on the record, so I am going to talk fast, all right?

But just making sure it gets off the critical list would be essential to us because there are so many critical items all the way down.

We just need to make sure all the locks and everything work first.

This is not one designed to hurt you.

We are trying to be able to work through helping the Corps by figuring out the inventory of what you have, where are the priorities.

Can I recommend to the committee that we have a closed door meeting with the Corps of Engineers and with OMB together?

Yes, it is critical.