Mr. Speaker, I object to the vote on the ground that a quorum is not present and make the point of order that a quorum is not present. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Evidently a quorum is not present. The Sergeant at Arms will notify absent…

Mr. Speaker, where are the jobs? I am reading verbatim from portions in an article printed in one of our local papers: ``NASA plans more outreach to Muslim countries,'' by Mark Matthews, February 16. ``NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden…

Mr. Speaker, I am a little bit tired of hearing ``we inherited.'' We were on the floor today, and we were trying to have some dialogue about jobs and about the economy, and all I heard from the other side of the aisle all-day long was, You…

Well, we'll get there. The first thing that happened is he accepted the resignation of Michael Griffin, the inspirational genius behind the Constellation program and the Aries rocket. And for 6 months, when they were having the meetings…

Well, you know, the stimulus bill was all about supposedly employing people. Now, these are not low-wage jobs in the space industry. I think the average, with benefits, is about 80,000 per, spread out all across this country, and no State…

Six months later we got General Bolton. He's the new administrator, and he's a first-class guy and he'll do a good job. But as soon as Bolton was named, the President created a commission known as the Augustine Commission to tell us how we…

Just three quick points. Not only are they spending too much, obviously, but they're spending it in the wrong direction. They're touting an extra $6 billion that they're going to put into NASA to create 1,500 jobs. But I told you how 7,000…

Well, I thank the gentleman from Missouri for recognizing me. That's only half of it, and what they are spending and wasting is in the wrong direction. We just want to talk a little bit about the wrong direction Congress is going, and I…

Correct. And the new rocket would allow us to go back to the Moon as well as back and forth to the international space station as well as, ultimately, to Mars, our manifest destiny, if you would.

More powerful than the Saturn V back in the Apollo days, actually, carry more people. So the President promised that he would close this gap because, as the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Bishop) mentioned, we will lose, if we don't close that…

I think it's going to have to be a matter of criminal and civil accountability on a personal level if we are going to change the course of the future in this regard.