I think most importantly, heavy lift capability is essential for someday sending humans to Mars.

I would suggest that in your position with the NRC's Space Studies Board, you might want to have them look at this topic--the impacts to the space program of the different funding scenarios, including sequestration, even though this…

The low flight rate currently projected for SLS and Orion is a cause for concern.

The authorization in 2010 set the course, the blueprint, for the SLS and set the parameters.

I do want to look toward the future, and I think one of the things that we've been missing here is the protection of the future.

Thank you, Dr. Kennel.

I want to go ahead on this Veterans Jobs Corps bill. I had anticipated I would be speaking after the chairman of the committee, Senator Murray, but I will take the liberty of going ahead, and then with her comments coming as the chairman…

I wish to speak about Oswaldo Paya, a Cuban dissident, and his untimely death in Cuba in a supposed automobile accident. The Cuban people, indeed all freedom-loving people of the world, have recently lost a great advocate for freedom. He…

there is such an important subject that is looming over the country right now that Congress can do something about; that is, the possibility of cyber attack. We have had this discussed by a number of people in very high and responsible…

in the midst of all of this tax debate and the partisan wrangling and the gridlock that has ensued--and today we will have another couple of tax votes, and, again, real progress will be stalled--I would like to offer a bipartisan thought…

Don't worry about those bells.

Of course, osteoporosis is a real problem here on Earth.