Well, we want to thank you. This is an exciting update. Congratulations again on making the country proud.

Mr. President, 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…

Mr. President, 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…

Mr. President, 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…

Mr. President, 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…

I would especially like to thank Senator Hutchison for your outstanding service and commitment not only to the ISS, but also to manned space flight.

Senator Hutchison is responsible for the American laboratory module to be designated a National Laboratory.

And I must acknowledge the junior Senator also from my great state of Florida, Senator Rubio.

As you have to leave, Senator Hutchison, I am going to follow up asking about some things on cancer that you raised.

The American astronaut on the station now, Sunita Williams, will become the second female commander of the Space Station crew.

Don't worry about those bells.