Thank you, Chairman Lieberman, Ranking Member Collins, and Members of the Committee. I appreciate the invitation to join you here today.

Madam Speaker, tomorrow I will be cohosting a briefing to honor the courage and the sacrifice of those struggling for freedom in Cuba. In the last few months, the regime has only stepped up its vicious repression. Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a…

Madam Speaker, I spoke recently of the urgent need for certain amendments to the Securities Investor Protection Act, SIPA, in order to protect victims of Ponzi schemes. Under no circumstances, except complicity with a crooked broker…

I asked that we receive a strong a vision statement, delivered by the President, defining Mars as the ultimate goal--we received one.

That frontier is no longer westward. That frontier is upward.

I feel there remains some room for improvement in his proposed plan for our future in space.

the gap was created 5 years ago, and that it is a fait accompli.

This Congress has to make a bipartisan decision whether to realign the NASA 2011 Budget to maintain the United States a leader in the exploration of space as outlined by the Constellation Program or forgo the prestige and respect we now…

We want to extend the life of the International Space Station to at least 2020.

I do believe that there is value in returning to the Moon.

we, as Americans, are by nature explorers. We have always had a frontier.

During his visit to KSC, the President articulated a strong commitment to NASA's missions and future of U.S. human spaceflight exploration.

I asked for the development of a robust commercial space sector and we are now taking steps in that direction.

I asked for the restructuring of the Constellation Program, to include the development of a heavy-lift vehicle and a crewed vehicle capable of evolving to support expeditions beyond low-Earth orbit--we received it.

if we ever give up that characteristic, then we are going to be a second-rate Nation.

We want to pursue a series of increasingly demanding human exploration missions, including a mission to an asteroid by 2025.

I asked for the extension of the International Space Station's operational life until at least 2020--we received it.

We want to increase NASA's investments in transformative technologies that can expand the reach and reduce the costs of human exploration.