Here we are in America without high-speed rail.

What I want to work on is the will.

I want to speak about a very uplifting topic in more ways than one. Friday morning I was at the Cape. We call it the Cape. It is technically known as the Kennedy Space Center. America is going to Mars. The first test flight, the spacecraft…

Mr. President, in just a few moments one of my best friends in the Senate is going to give his farewell address. Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas, a former State legislator, former attorney general, and two-term Senator, was caught in this…

Mr. President, I wish to share with the Senate the fact that we are about to do the first flight test of the new NASA human spacecraft, called Orion. As a matter of fact, it was attempted earlier this morning. There was a launch window…

this seems to me to be the height of irresponsibility, that in the midst of us having them all there at that table, they are still not revealing information.

It has reached the limit of this Senator's patience as I have visited with families whose relative is dead or in one case a firefighter that has no right eye anymore.

I want to commit to you that at least some of us on this committee are going to be rather vigorous in our oversight function to make sure that the Executive Branch; i.e., you once you are confirmed, in fact, are following through because…

I am absolutely delighted that you have been named for the position which has been vacant since, I believe, January of this year.

I appreciate not only the statement and the opportunity to tell you that I will actually be looking forward to working with you on that oversight...

there needs to be a very stiff financial penalty so that the penalty becomes so severe to the company