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

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…

Mr. President, 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…

Mr. President, 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…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business up to 15 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Haitian Children

Mr. President, 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…