The effective restoration of U.S. space restoration leadership is simply too important to the well-being of the nation.

we want to stop paying as quickly as we can to the Russians for the seats to get to and from the International Space Station.

We now have to pass the appropriations bill that Senator Mikulski and Senator Hutchison have crafted.

We are committed to developing an affordable, sustainable, and realistic next-generation human spaceflight system...

As we develop this big rocket that we're referring to here as the SLS, can you elaborate on what other uses there might be for the SLS vehicle beyond NASA's Human Exploration Program?

NASA is cranking now.

I thank the majority leader. I will not take the 3 minutes but just to say my objection is the same as the Senator from New Jersey and my colleague from Florida, Senator Rubio. The fact is, the provision in the bill would allow direct…

I am a firm believer in our system of federalism.

I am not an advocate for contracting, but it may not be as disproportionate as it sounds up front.

earned military retirement benefits need to be maintained and, as promised, delivered.

Well, aren't some things blurring now between nursing homes and ALFs?

what the Miami Herald chronicled was not conditions that the community would accept at all--to the contrary, to the point of absolute shock and revulsion.