in a few minutes, we are going to vote on the confirmation of Dava Newman, the nominee for Deputy Administrator of NASA. This little Agency happens to be one that I have some personal fondness for, having participated with NASA many Moons…

How do you build that unity of command when, in fact, of necessity, you are dependent upon the culpable party, in this case BP, to assist?

I'm very proud of the work of this subcommittee. It's doing important stuff.

They are the responsible party. They are accountable for removing that oil.

General Kelly, the Commander of SOUTHCOM, doesn't have enough Coast Guard out there to stop the drugs.

while the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee is here, I want him to know of my admiration for him for trying to work together in a bipartisan way on an especially thorny issue, this Iranian nuclear negotiation. I read in today's…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Airport Security

our Nation's airports are not secure. We were rudely awakened to that fact last December when it was discovered that for a several-month period at the Atlanta Airport, employees of the airport--one in particular--since there was limited…

Now, that's so common sense to take care of this problem. What do you all think about that?

And it seems, to this Senator, that it's common sense if we are going to give the assurances to the traveling public that they are going to be safe.

You cannot get it right unless you have the numbers, and you cannot get the numbers unless you have the instruments, whether they be on the ground or up on orbit.

Subsequent analysis shows that it actually exceeded that, so it would be a hurricane Category 5.