The sooner we move these nominees, Mr. Chairman, the better.

Without truly supporting and building upon the human and heavy-lift launch capabilities that are already under development, our astronauts will have no choice but to wave at the Russians, perhaps the Chinese, and possibly astronauts from…

I think this country has made the right decision in ensuring that hard-working people, who lose their jobs through no fault of their own in an economic downturn, have some support until they can get themselves back on their feet and find…

It's also economically the right thing to do, because if you're not paying your mortgage and your house goes into foreclosure, that means one more house in the neighborhood that's under water, and it has an impact on everybody else, all…

The Congress explicitly provided $400 million to the exploration program in 2009 economic stimulus bill to close the gap between the Shuttle and constellation programs, as I understand it.

It's my understanding that section 505 of the omnibus clearly prohibits funding for new activities. Did Congress approve what you're doing, here, for the redirection of the funds?

A lot of us were alarmed when it was discovered that the Census had plans for using ACORN as a partner in the 2010 census.

Ares-V is the one that's on the books today.

Thank you again for appearing before the committee, but also thank you for the job you're doing as the leader of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

With the shift of thousands of agents from the FBI's criminal mission to counterterrorism, a significant burden has been placed on our State and our local law enforcement agencies.

We're indebted to them for the sacrifices they make to protect our country.

I'm very proud of the fact that the Congress took this action. It was the right thing to do from a moral perspective, and it's the right thing to do from an economic perspective, and now we've just got to make sure it works.

The administrative funds, have those been put to use, or has the timeframe just been too short?

In recent years, exports have only accounted--listen to this--for 12 percent of our GDP.

Are you going to provide leadership there? Will you work with us on that?

Great overruns, gross overruns. But you will get back with us on that.

We are not delegating anything to ACORN.

the Census Bureau should not partner with organizations that have shown systemic problems with both accuracy and legitimacy.