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Madam President, the President of the United States has come forth with a budget for the future of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I can tell you that, among the aerospace community, it has not been well received. The…
Superbowl Sunday is a great American tradition. The Colts and Saints are already champions, but may the best team win!
My sincerest thanks and congratulations to the Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue Urban Search and Rescue team for their heroic efforts in aiding the relief work in Haiti. Their courage and dedication to helping save lives are examples for us…
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to applaud the outstanding work and selfless commitment of Mr. Pius Bannis. Mr. Bannis is the Field Office Director in Port-au-Prince for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. He has gone above and beyond…
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor one of the most decorated ships of the United States, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ingham. For 52 years, the Ingham protected our shoreline. Entering service in 1935, the Ingham delivered critical…
Mr. Speaker, Congress will raise the debt ceiling $1.9 trillion to $14.6 trillion this week. The deficit last year, $1.5 trillion. The budget introduced on Monday is another $1.5 trillion. We're over $12 trillion in debt, on our way to $20…
Mr. Speaker, I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Lungren and Mr. Wamp. I couldn't have said it better myself. It is incredibly important that we be good stewards of the Capitol complex and the facilities that we have the privilege to work in…
More powerful than the Saturn V back in the Apollo days, actually, carry more people. So the President promised that he would close this gap because, as the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Bishop) mentioned, we will lose, if we don't close that…
Well, we'll get there. The first thing that happened is he accepted the resignation of Michael Griffin, the inspirational genius behind the Constellation program and the Aries rocket. And for 6 months, when they were having the meetings…
Well, you know, the stimulus bill was all about supposedly employing people. Now, these are not low-wage jobs in the space industry. I think the average, with benefits, is about 80,000 per, spread out all across this country, and no State…
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks in the Record on H.R. 2843. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman from Florida? There…
Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 2843) to provide for the joint appointment of the Architect of the Capitol by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President pro tempore of the Senate, the…
I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, today I rise in support of H.R. 2843, the Architect of the Capitol Appointment Act. I thank the original cosponsors of this bipartisan legislation, including Ranking Member…
I yield back the balance of my time. {time} 1100 The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Wasserman Schultz) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 2843, as…
Six months later we got General Bolton. He's the new administrator, and he's a first-class guy and he'll do a good job. But as soon as Bolton was named, the President created a commission known as the Augustine Commission to tell us how we…
Just three quick points. Not only are they spending too much, obviously, but they're spending it in the wrong direction. They're touting an extra $6 billion that they're going to put into NASA to create 1,500 jobs. But I told you how 7,000…
Well, I thank the gentleman from Missouri for recognizing me. That's only half of it, and what they are spending and wasting is in the wrong direction. We just want to talk a little bit about the wrong direction Congress is going, and I…
Correct. And the new rocket would allow us to go back to the Moon as well as back and forth to the international space station as well as, ultimately, to Mars, our manifest destiny, if you would.