Congress and the American people need to know the truth and to understand what our laws say, how they are being carried out, why it is failing, and how it can be fixed.

It was the Democratic Senators that blocked the Senate bill from even coming to the floor and even having a chance to be amended.

They are not going to come to Crystal City, right?

What else would you look to have? What would you normally expect would be strong documentation?

My perspective is that the House of Representative fully funded homeland security with their bill.

Congress has no duty and no responsibility to fund it and, indeed, we should block funding and stop it.

I thank the chairman for letting me speak on this motion. As a past chairman of this Subcommittee on Homeland Security, I know firsthand how important it is for the funding for Homeland Security to go forward. The bottom line is the House…

I am going to offer for the record, relevant to what you just said, a February 27 letter by Senator Grassley.

I feel very strongly about it. And when I say I didn't want to run again because I didn't want to raise money, but raise hell, this is one of the areas that I am going to raise hell about.

In the detailed portion of the 2016 budget for SLS, NASA only proposes development funds, as I understand it, through 2018 for an upper stage engine with no funding beyond that date.

The shortened season was very disconcerting to me and to thousands of fishermen in the Gulf.

We need to hear how you've made progress and how we cannot have boondoggles again.

We want an accurate count, because this is very important to a lot of us on the Gulf.

The agency needs a new ship, because the fleet is aging, as you pointed out.

Such a disjointed request, I believe, ignores current fiscal realities and raises immediate questions about the administration's priorities.

Do you realize that when you talk about supplementing your renewables with natural gas, you are admitting that renewables are not a legitimate or reliable source of energy?

As recently stated by the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency at a HASC hearing on worldwide threats, 'the threat to U.S. space systems and services will increase as potential adversaries pursue disruptive and destructive…

Why do you need a replacement for the ALCM?