Marco Rubio

That's correct. Thank you for having this hearing. And this is an issue that predates my service here.

We are going to start today by talking about job creation in America. I wish to turn it over to Senator Coons to begin this conversation about a very important piece of legislation we filed jointly yesterday.

Can you see how this would discourage the space workforce in Florida and at other centers?

It can be a catalyst for getting kids excited about science and math.

I think we need to do a better job here in the Senate and the Congress of getting people excited about that destination.

I think we all understand the need for certification efforts to ensure that the vehicles are safe and are ready to fly.

They may have once seen him as the force of civility. They now recognize that he is driving the country to ruin.

The burden is on the Syrian opposition to be talking to the same people.

The loss of the Assad regime would be a devastating blow to Iran.

As you aware, both the President's plan and Senator Reid's plan call for a so-called surtax on millionaires, which is to generate revenue.

Any bill that purports to be a jobs plan has to be judged by--primarily has to be looked by--what effect it will have on private sector behavior and private sector job creation.

I think most of us would, that in this country if you went out and left this building and asked people what is the number one issue facing our country, they would say the lack of jobs or jobs that do not pay what they used to, that the…

Obviously as a community we are very proud of Judge Jordan's nomination and look forward to his appointment.

I'd like to figure out a way where we can create some leverage there, because a spill in one of these places would be deeply disastrous as much as anywhere else.

I think Repsol's one of the companies. There are some other companies we don't know a lot about that are talking about being a part of it.

I think there is something in here that. I've had, I was just in Portland with other counties, and there's a lot of comments that, again, in some places it worked well, and that is when they engaged the locals.

A spill in one of those sites would be even more catastrophic than what happened, based on the currents.

There's this real concern in the Gulf region that, the spill happened, but that the full impact of it may not be known for years

If permitting moves forward at a reasonable pace for projects in the Gulf, then we can put 190,000 more people to work.

I think the very persuasive argument has been made with regards to that.

It would be great if the conservation and environmental community outside of government would tell them, thank you, we appreciate you doing that, but if this ever happens to us, we would like all that money to come to us.

The truth is that my sense is that many of my colleagues who are committed to conservation and the environment probably have conservation and environmental projects in their home state and they see this as an opportunity to take some money…

The challenges politically, as you can imagine, in creating that chain and justifying it become harder

I would like to be able to point to some of the real world--I mean, it sounds like you have a wealth of knowledge.

The standard review that they are using is a lot higher than you might even find in a court of law.