America's commitment to peacefully explore and utilize space for the benefit of our citizens and people around the world is so vital to our collective future.

Somehow they have gotten the impression that the space program is being shut down.

The space assets have changed the way we defend this nation.

I am just astounded over and over that people say, well, NASA needs to advertise more what it does.

These successes in space have become an expression of our technical prowess, announcing to the rest of the world just how capable we can be.

I feel a special responsibility because of my unique position as the only American who was off the planet on September 11, 2001, to spread the word that our leadership in space is vital to our way of life and our future.

A robust and sustainable space exploration program is essential to building our future economy.

And the authorization--just to build on your comments, the authorization bill requires NASA to look for these types of efficiencies...

the Senate is expected to take up a bill that would repeal $20 billion in outdated, antiquated tax breaks for the oil and gas companies. In many cases, this tax break was created about a century ago. They have little, if anything, to do…

I would agree. And I'm looking at perhaps sponsoring that legislation, myself.

I want to call to the attention of the Senate the fact that a number of State legislatures, including our State legislature in Florida, have been enacting election law bills that severely constrict the right of the people to express their…

What specific efforts have been made to partner with the states to ensure that TSA is granted access to states' criminal records?