Paul Broun

I am not talking about risk to our astronauts, because I have to believe that NASA will not put any of our astronauts on a commercial system until it is convinced that NASA's safety standards have been met.

I think that NASA owes Congress and the laudable companies that are before us today a much more thorough assessment of the situation ahead.

I am not opposed to this new approach, but in the time remaining I want to focus my remarks on the business case, as that is an area that I would like to see discussed at greater length.

To paraphrase my friend and former Chairman of this Committee, Bart Gordon, I don't want to find ourselves at some future time throwing additional sums in this program because the commercial launch companies are 'too important to fail.'

Well, I think we have seen in many instances where Judges have used their own political philosophies have bent to affect how they judge things and not entirely independent.

Will the final report be made public?

The Department is seeking independent experts to evaluate the allegations.

We believe there needs to be increased scientific rigor applied in ESA decisions.

Mr. Manson transferred him out of the agency. Thankfully, one of Mr. Manson's successors had the good sense to rectify this abusive conduct.

MacDonald's zeal to advance her agenda has caused considerable harm to the integrity of the ESA program and to the morale and reputation of the FW.

I think Judge Wanger's extreme language was misguided, and efforts to attack the credibility of agency scientists are also misguided.

The focus of today's hearing seems to be on attacking the integrity of agency scientists.

It really saddens me that he may have been one of the last of his kind in the Republican Party.

The Endangered Species Act, when it is allowed to work, protects wildlife from utter destruction.

And I am going to make a very clear and explicit record to support that finding of agency bad faith because, candidly, the only inference that the Court can draw is that it is an attempt to mislead and to deceive the Court into accepting…

I believe it would be hard to argue that the law has been anything but an abject failure.

The Endangered Species Act is a critical tool for protecting our natural resources.

The tea party movement is expressing the most powerful political force in America. It's written in the constitution of the United States, we as people. We, the people expressing their concern about their loss of freedom, the fiscal…

The Tea Party movement is expressing the most powerful political force in America. It's written in the constitution of the United States, we as people. We, the people expressing their concern about their loss of freedom, the fiscal…

If you listen to what they are telling the media, they don't know why they are there, they are just mad. And I see people angry and I'm not historic too but this attack upon business, attack upon industry, attack upon freedom, now the…

At the hearing, I asked you if EPA reached out to State regulators and public utility commissioners on the details of the final cross-State rule before it was issued.

This rule of yours is going to destroy jobs and it is going to greatly harm our economy.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 105, line 18, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced by $13,500,000)''. Page 158, line 258, after…

My amendment would revert the Smithsonian funding back to the fiscal year 2008 levels. This is simply asking the Smithsonian to tighten their belts, to pull their weight, just like other agencies and departments within the Federal…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 101, line 10, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced by $55,624,000)''. Page 158, line 25, after…