Richard Shelby

What NASA and this administration have failed to disclose to the U.S. taxpayer is that NASA has no verifiable data to support their claim.

If this proposal is the best that we can do as a Nation, then we do not deserve, I believe, the rich heritage of human space flight.

The President's budget proposes to reward those failed commercial providers with an additional bailout.

The President's plan only ensures that for decades to come, the United States will be both subservient to and reliant on other countries for our access to space.

This plan lacks vision, is unrealistic, and jeopardizes our entire human space exploration program.

Scrapping this investment and starting fresh does not make sense to my business sense.

Let me repeat that. The White House adviser on science and technology policy testified that there was no real research or verification done on the viability of the administration's approach for the commercial market to sustain America's…

This plan would destroy decades of U.S. space supremacy by pinning our hopes for success on unproven commercial companies.

This request, I believe, abandons our Nation's only chance to remain the leader in space and instead chooses to set up a welfare program for the commercial space industry.

I believe that the President canceled the wrong rocket program.

Don't you have to basically take the Iranian threat as real, as dangerous to this country?

Since the early 1990s, NASA has served as the anchor tenant for this industry, providing a stable backbone.

We all like competition, because out of competition, generally, comes good products.

A lot of us are concerned with aspects of the new START Treaty and its potential to limit the U.S.'s options to deploy missile interceptors.

As long as this oil continues to pour into the Gulf we have a real and unprecedented disaster.

I traveled to Alabama and witnessed firsthand the destruction caused by this catastrophe.

I have got to go to an appropriations hearing to deal with the FBI in a few minutes and I wondered if I could ask that my questions of the Secretary be included in the record.

While our hearing today is intended to cover the HUD budget for the next fiscal year, I would like to begin by highlighting the fact that the budget does not--does not, Mr. Secretary, as you know--address the future of the GSEs, Fannie Mae…

But a lot of that child pornography is paid for through the credit card system, is it not?

Child exploitation is a substantial priority for the FBI.

The administration's proposed rescission of $98 million in funding for the construction of the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center is troubling

But it is a sordid problem, is it not? And it is billions of dollars involved worldwide, is it not?

But the key to it is to protect the integrity of the system, is it not, and the evidence that comes from it?

Do we have your assurance that all voices of State and local crime labs will be at the table during any DNA policy review discussion?

It is my understanding, Director Mueller, that the volume of submissions to TEDAC has overwhelmed its capacity.