This is the last public hearing of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.
You know, NOAA headquarters is in the State of Maryland, and some of its most significant assets are there.
This subcommittee is obsessed with the safety of people we ask to go into harms way, and whether it's our astronauts in ...
We really do want to let the people who work at Commerce know... to create jobs, and sustain jobs, and keep our country ...
We need you, at the Secretary's level, to really use whoever you will designate to be a hands-on manager of these costs.
The cost to refurbish each plane is $20 million, because, essentially, it's not like new carburetors, or, you know, let'...
the Commerce Department's job is to work with the President, the Congress, and the private sector to really create jobs.
Well, I think what the subcommittee would like is a detailed management plan including not only the hiring, but how are ...
But, we've heard that before. How is this going to be different than in the past?
Everybody likes to talk today about American exceptionalism. It really is our intellectual ideas.
He brings valuable skills to his position, strong experience in the private sector, and he's been a strong voice for Ame...
We can't go there again.
Build it here, sell it everywhere.
We expect robust attendance at this hearing, and we note that the ranking member of the full Appropriations Committee, S...
The administration is committed to avoiding a sequester; we urge the Congress to enact balanced deficit reduction legisl...
We don't want NOAA cut loose.
Cyber espionage is a very considerable threat. We're not fully prepared, as a country, to address that.
The transformation FBI has achieved over the past 10 years would not have been possible without your support.
