Mr. President, today the Senate will vote for the fourth time on a procedural vote to take up the House Homeland Security funding bill. We are going to be voting on the cloture of the motion to proceed because it is a parliamentary way of…

The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has been regarded as one of the most successful global health programs in history.

I told everybody the Oscars were no good—Nielsen ratings confirmed, one of the lowest ratings in history.

Put the glamour, beauty &amp, mystery back in the Oscars and the ratings will zoom. Also, &amp, most importantly, the Oscars need credibility.

The @HuffingtonPost is a total joke &amp, laughing stock of journalism, as is gross Arianna Huffington. They don’t report the facts!

Why did we refuse them to come to our space station? It doesn't make any sense to me.

Would the Senator believe that if the Department of Homeland Security is shut down that essential personnel will be required to work, but essential personnel--the following--will not be paid? For the first time people engaged in the…

NASA's mission is vital for our national security and economic prosperity.

This subcommittee has always not been bipartisan, it has been nonpartisan.

Indeed, we shouldn't be relying on the Russians to ride.

The United States does not currently recognize outer space as "global commons" for purposes of international law.

Indeed, now with the competition proceeding for the commercial crew, we are seeing a lot of innovation coming out, and it is going to be exciting, and this will all be coming more and more into the focus of the American public over the…

if we are going to the Moon, then show me the money.

We are counting on you to be one of those means of transportation for crew to get us up there.

I think it was very important for the U.S. to move first on that. We are, I think, the indispensable nation in that regard.

The goal is to go to Mars. The goal is to get NASA beyond low Earth orbit.

I think if we don't, if we really do, or in between, we shouldn't do things differently at the Moon.

How do we develop the technologies, the techniques, the systems, the life-support systems, the propulsion systems that will get us to a foreign body such as Mars with a crew and return them safely?