Robert Aderholt

I think as we move forward with our proposed budget request, we are asking for a $4 per acre fee that would be an incentive for oil companies to move forward aggressively.

We have spent so much money on terrorism, and we have not spent as much money on drugs.

It represents a just profoundly different approach that has never been done before in the history of the country.

My constituents and the Nation I think overwhelming would disagree with you that enemy soldiers captured in time of war... should not be given the protection of the U.S. Constitution.

I think if you talk to most of the family members... they believe that this trial ought to be in a military court.

Franklin Roosevelt rightly treated these agents as war criminals and not common civilian criminals.

To release six people back to Yemen when you are mortaring Yemen at that very moment, to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was really a bad idea.

One thing that NIST has been helpful in the past as with, of course, a lot regarding the manufacturing we have already talked here today, one of the areas that has been hit hard by not only the recession but also through overseas…

I think there are more pieces to the puzzle than the technology pieces that NIST is looking at.

Congress has not specifically told NASA not to terminate those programs.

To my knowledge, we have no letters that are going to any of the shuttle contractors.

And the reason I mention that was because the, you know, my staff was given the numbers of Ares I, the operation cost at $1.3 billion.

I hope I am wrong, but I am legally liable if I allow a company to spend more than I have to pay them, I go to jail.

The current plan that is before us flushes away $9 billion invested in the Constellation.

I will get back to you if I find that I am incorrect.

Isn't it a big risk for our Space Program for NASA to be aggressively canceling and freezing all Constellation contracts which were on schedule to be awarded this year?

Our hope was that NASA's request would include realist dollar amounts for human exploration.

The proposal this administration has submitted for NASA to abandon the Constellation vision and strategy leaves the program worthy of a lesser nation than the United States.

We are getting our clock cleaned by nations that have really devoted themselves to driving math and science through to their young people.

The idea that education is a local prerogative, and that people can decide how dumb they want their children to be, and it is no concern to us if they do not want to provide an education, no that is not true.

I worry about science education, math education in rural towns because the town I grew up in, I was blessed. I had a very good math and science teacher that loved it, knew it, and shared it.

It is the responsibility of today's policymakers to develop a credible path forward.

We must get securing our border and stopping this drug menace right before we entertain new costly ideas or roll back our immigration laws.

I am wondering whether we have the tools and the will to actually break its back.

If there is one thing I am certain of from my time as a State prosecutor and my years in Congress, it is that drugs pose a grave and unrelenting threat to the health, safety and security of the United States.