As the STRATCOM commander, my concern... is what impact this decision might have on the industrial base as we look to the future.

This was originally an idea that was meant to be a one-time thing.

If Project Constellation is cancelled, our Nation's objective of sending an astronaut to Mars will be replaced with the fleeting hope that one day, some day, we will be able to explore the cosmos again.

The Bush administration failed to request the amounts it had originally projected to support the Vision for Exploration.

He has chosen not to continue those operations, and so that decision--and the consequences that may follow from it, are, and will always be, his responsibility.

to abandon Ares I as a baseline vehicle for an alternative, without demonstrated capability nor proven superiority, or even equivalence, is unwise and probably not cost-effective.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate Raquel Egozi Behar, a great member of the South Florida community and a dear friend. Next month Raquel will be recognized by the Miami Jewish Health Systems as the 2010 Mother of the Year. Her…

Mr. Speaker, yesterday, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and my fellow Members of Congress--Mario Diaz-Balart and Ted Deutch--and I held a great press conference with Dan Beard, the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Yom HaAtzmaut, the 62nd anniversary of the independence of the State of Israel, and to reaffirm the unbreakable bond between our two democratic nations. Sixty-two years ago, on May 14, 1948, the State…

Melania and I saw American Idiot on Broadway last night and it was great. An amazing theatrical experience!

Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 212, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.'' ____________________

Mr. Speaker, we should not be doubling down on a failed Middle East policy by pressuring Israel to make further concessions, including on Jerusalem, Israel's undivided capital. Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel…

Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight to recognize the vital work of an important south Florida organization called ``Our Kids of Miami-Dade and Monroe.'' Since the year 2005, ``Our Kids'' has worked to ensure that at-risk, abused, abandoned and…

All of the areas that the Soviet Union had nuclear material and weapons, outside of what is today Russia, you feel good about a lockdown?

I must say that I was pleasantly surprised that, on fairly short notice, that many leaders showed up.

It is imperative that the nuclear nonproliferation regime and the rules-based international order... is both credible and relevant.

It does, indeed, express their concern.

The President is requesting $2.7 billion for fiscal year 2011 for the nonproliferation program, an increase of 26 percent over the last year's funding levels.