the whole thing, we are going to forgive about $1.6 trillion that we are not going to pay.

The President, with regard to the future of manned space flight, appointed a Blue Ribbon Panel.

You can't do it on the cheap and that is the big difference.

Human exploration beyond low-earth orbit is not viable under the fiscal year 2010 budget guideline.

We think you have grossly underestimated the costs of this so-called insurance policy.

I believe the most recent number we have received from the Department is that insurance policy is at a cost of $671 million.

We have been through this process laboriously now for the 10 years that I have been Senator.

Is it true that the lessons of Pearl Harbor... is still a lesson that is taught in the United States Navy?

I certainly am not going to look forward to a fight in the Budget Committee, the Senate Armed Services Committee, and the Appropriations Committee on a decision that the Navy and Secretary Gates have made that is essential to the national…

I am speaking today in favor of the Conrad-Gregg amendment, of which I am a cosponsor also. While the Senator from California is here, I want to go back 27 years ago to one of the times in which government came together and worked best on…

there is a reason for this, and it is our Nation's budget is on a path toward crisis. We have to do something extraordinary, just as we did back in 1983. Over the last decade, we have spent billions to wage two wars, but we still proceeded…

I do not think there was any person who lives on planet Earth, who saw the clip on CNN this morning of dying children in Haiti, who did not have emotion overwhelm them, as my wife Grace and I, having been to Haiti many times. We saw the…