Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Flake). Without objection, it is so ordered. Unanimous Consent Request--H.R. 5243

Not only is that true, I say to the Senator, but there is the fact that this is an emergency, which has always been dealt with in the history of this Senate as a bipartisan thing to meet the situation of the emergency, and now this has…

Amen to that, and here we are dithering with these political games. We wonder why the American public is so turned off when they see what is going on up here, and here is one of the very best examples of an emergency.

I will predict that shortly, in the next few years, if not immediately, you will see an extension even on out to the end of the decade.

we certainly ought to expand the authorization of the Space Station.

we need the Space Station up there, as a platform to do the testing.

So we're going to Mars, and the rockets and the engines and the spacecraft that are the building blocks of that mission are now being assembled and getting ready to test.

It is truly an exciting time for our space program.

In 2021, NASA will return American astronauts to deep space.

Not only is that true, those four things, but then the House of Representatives put it on a very good bill, the MILCON appropriations, and they sent it down here thinking that we were going to have to take it at the eleventh hour with all…

Change can be good, but let me state unequivocally that it's the position of the Coalition that major disruptions stemming from abrupt shifts in space policy risk derailing all of the progress that's been made and jeopardize our future as…