He speaks fluent Hebrew and fluent Arabic, not a shabby start for an Ambassador to Israel.

In this new world in which we live the Foreign Service becomes all the more important.

We have an extraordinary individual that I can commend to this committee because I know him very well.

Well, that is a very well-stated answer. And I think that that's genuinely the policy that was set out in the authorization law.

We've got to have data. And we can't keep having these delays like we've had on these reports.

Where does your plutonium come from now?

you hear a lot of talk about the trouble in the Middle East, and people are saying that oil prices are going up and, therefore, the pain at the gas pump is being felt because there is this shakiness in the oil markets. You hear the…

Dr. Weiler, you are facing a shortfall in supply of plutonium 238.

We're going to have a study?

NASA has some extraordinary, unique facilities, but a number of these facilities are not being utilized very heavily.

America's preeminence in space is more than a source of national pride. It is a source of strategic advantage.

if not more, with flat line funding, you all are going to have to make these choices.