Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Kaufman). Without objection, it is so ordered.

It is always good to have you back on the Hill among your friends, and we appreciate your good work.

I want to be a partner should there be a role for Congress to play to help the bureau execute a plan to repair this dam as quickly as possible.

Mr. President, I had hoped to call up an amendment I have. Of course, I would have had to have gotten unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment in order to do that. It is my understanding that we will attempt to do that…

Mr. President, this is an amendment to restore some sanity and common sense to the executive pay practices that have outraged all of us that we have seen on Wall Street among the biggest financial institutions in this country. It is very…

Madam Speaker, I was inadvertently detained and I was unable to cast a vote on March 4, 2010. If I had been present I would have cast the following vote: Rollcall 90--On motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments with an Amendment to H.R…

I thank you for yielding and for the opportunity to stand up and talk on the rule here that is before us that would allow the so- called ``jobs'' bill to move forward. I've had to think long and hard about my position on this because I do…

Madam Speaker, with record national unemployment in my State, 11.8 percent unemployment, one of the top 10 unemployment States in the United States, I would love to come before the Congress and say, ``Pass this bill,'' titled the ``jobs''…

the question should be: How can we afford not to fully support them and ensure that they remain indisputable factors in driving our Nation's technical, industrial and scientific excellence?

The Bush administration failed to request a single dime of funding to reimburse NASA for the cost of re-certifying the shuttle program for its return to flight after Columbia.

Ending Constellation will devastate an industrial base critical to our national security.

I believe that has been reflected in the findings of the 'Gathering Storm' report, prepared several years ago under the leadership of Norm Augustine.

The President's alternative plan will actually cost us more money and delay our ability to get ourselves into space.

In 2008, Senator Mikulski and I included the first ever funding of $17 million for Adam Walsh enforcement in a war supplemental funding bill.

We said that is not good enough, and provided a $27.5 million increase above the President's extremely modest request of $15 million in 2010.

That is why I am so concerned about the Obama administration's response to the Augustine panel report.

In 2009, we increased this funding by another $5 million.

Despite what I believe is the compelling logic suggesting we reconsider the decision to terminate the space shuttle at the end of the current manifest, the administration has chosen to hide behind the Bush administration mistaken plan.