Adam Schiff

Given the predictable demise of QuikSCAT and ongoing discussions with NASA and the Japanese Space Agency, I am collaborating on a new mission.

What would be the relative expense of procuring this data commercially as compared to under the current plan?

Last year, the Committee asked for a plan to develop a satellite-based scatterometer to monitor surface specter winds.

I support that completely, to use some of these TARP funds to incentivize the small and community banks to lend.

I do hear that comment made secondhand via the small business owners. They say, well, the bank is telling me the regulators are breathing down their neck...

I would like to see this us move forward with this, and not, you know, punt it again.

If this was ready to begin development, why are we not moving forward? Why the delay?

How many decadals do we have to have recommend Europa?

I would hope that we would maximize the degree to which we do not pay damages but rather put the contractors to work in a new direction.

You have a very tough job. And in many respects I think the job your predecessors had was easier because we had the vision, we did not have the resources, but we were content to suspend belief.

If there is a good case to be made for why this advances those goals it really will need to be made very forcefully.

What, what--sorry, it is the Stanford in me coming out. But I was reading your written testimony, and plainly if you look at the map here you can see that the land is far more than 30 percent.

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His hearing of the House Judiciary Task Force on Judicial Impeachment will now come to order.

I want to thank you, Judge Keir, for your time today and your expertise.

Does the bankruptcy petition refer to a liquidated amount?

So if you were successful in keeping his name out of the paper by filing originally under a false name, any creditors that relied on the newspaper to learn about bankruptcies would not have found out about his bankruptcy?

Did the judge express concern when the workout wasn't successful that the public would become aware that he was filing for bankruptcy?

Now, was this, in part, as a way of letting creditors out in the community know who was filing for bankruptcy?

Of course, if everyone filed bankruptcy petitions in false names to avoid public disclosure, there would be serious problems with the system, wouldn't there?

I take it, Judge, that the filing of a bankruptcy for many people, not solely for Federal judges, is somewhat of an embarrassing event for people. Is that a fair statement?

The effect of not fully disclosing the full extent of your income, of not disclosing the tax return refund you are going to get, do I understand it correctly that the impact of that is that you actually have more income that you are not…

You mentioned that the form is filled out incorrectly; $7,500 a month is listed as gross income when in fact it is net income, is that right?

The court order prohibited the incursion of additional debt during the bankruptcy. For someone who takes out additional debt in the form of markers or other debt, is that a violation of a court order?