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.

We owe it to the American people. We owe it to the taxpayers. And we owe it to the astronauts to be very clear about what we are going to do and how are we going to do it.

If we follow the administration's plan 'we will have lost the many years required to recreate the equivalent of what will be discarded.'

If Project Constellation is cancelled, our Nation will not, in the near-future, be able to travel beyond low-Earth orbit.

My No. 1 priority is astronaut safety. We must have a reliable transportation system to protect our astronauts during launch, mission execution, and reentry.

How can anyone believe it makes sense to follow this plan for purely budgetary reasons--when we have just spent close to a trillion dollars on short-term relief?

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I thank my good friend for yielding. Mr. Speaker, as the House author of legislation awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, WASP, I rise in strong support of today's resolution. I would like to thank my…

Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight to recognize the tremendous contributions of the relief efforts in Haiti made by Dr. Barth Green and the University of Miami's Global Institute's Project Medishare and the Miller School of Medicine at the…

Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight to congratulate Homestead's Air Reserve Base 482nd Fighter Wing for receiving the Department of Defense Reserve Family Readiness Award. Through the vigilance of these brave men and women in uniform every day…

I commend you for an exemplary USAID mission in Haiti.

We need to find places where we can slow down or freeze spending.

The debt created in the next year alone will equal an additional $4,000.00 owed by every man, woman, and child in the United States.

the emphasis should always be to make sure that it is a transparent, accountable system of aid that is not corrupted by officials in the West Bank and Gaza.

We are now borrowing at a rate of about $4 billion a day to keep our Government in operation.

The Magnuson Act worked, on a fishery--particularly up in New England that was being over fished. And it brought back that stock.

It is critical that the tests on engine compatibility be completed on time in order to provide stability to the ethanol industry.