I would suggest that in a lot of these areas that you suggest may qualify for national monument designation it would be good, if you know this in advance, to start working with Members of Congress and do it legislatively, if possible.

I asked him at the time, I said, 'You know, if this is what you want to do, let me introduce a bill and we will do it legislatively, the way it should be done.'

What worries me here is I think you are going to have a lot of companies--because they do operate on those economic incentives--say, 'Look, I am not going to automatically agree to produce in a certain time frame when I don't know what the…

I see it in Montana, where I visited Glacier National Park... the glaciers at Glacier National Park will no longer be there in the year 2020.

I see Pelican Island, the first national wildlife refuge, essentially disappearing because of the fact that the sea is rising.

The only way any of these things are sustainable is if the public supports them in the long run.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.