Sam Brownback

Further endangering civilians is unacceptable, and the international community should work to ensure that there is a clear, viable strategy for their protection.

I hope we can discuss today how we can get back on track with a viable process toward peace in Darfur.

The Lord's Resistance Army is a transnational problem. They've wreaked havoc in Southern Sudan in the past.

The problem is, if we have three places sitting here--we have a community banker, we have a credit union, and we have an auto dealer-- all three are still covered. They are all three still covered if they make the loan. If they originate…

I think this is a good motion to instruct conferees. I think it is something we ought to do. I think it is something that will be very helpful. I make this simple point to my colleagues: Under the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 100…

Each month we have 3 to 5 buyers who tell our financial service members-- There are three to five people coming in, telling our financial service managers: if our dealership can match or beat their bank's or credit union's interest rate…

I would note that the amendment I called up is the one to exempt auto dealers from the consumer financial products commission created in this bill. These are auto loans already covered under the bill by whoever is doing the financing. If…

It is a demonstration to demonstrate that they can get the vehicle to low-Earth orbit.

I am troubled about how it feels like we are losing control or it feels like we are losing leadership in the manned space arena.

NASA is going to be paying for initial flights in late 2011 by SpaceX.

We have a tight budgetary atmosphere and we have got to be able to fit our goals and our dreams.

This is the kind of hearing we ought to have all the time.

I think he is just a really solid American.

I hope this is the beginning of the discussion, Mr. Chairman.

What Senator Nelson indicated, the word 'exploration,' I agree that is the nature of what Americans have always been.

NASA paid $250 million to each SpaceX and Orbital as part of a Space Act agreement.

I think it drives all folks crazy.

I've been frustrated about the lack of being able to consider the illegal subsidy.

So the first one will go to the space station in 2015?

Falcon 9 will actually launch the end of this month or early June.

I am a strong supporter of NASA, as I mentioned, and of the commercial space industry.

I am taken by Captain Cernan's comments, which is we do not seem to have a plan now.

I think there is great opportunity to have a space program that leads the world.

Well, if you award this to Airbus, after this step--extraordinary step of extending the time period--and it's a $35 billion contract, and it's a subsidized platform, which we all know is a subsidized platform--I think you're going to have…

Doesn't that invite other countries to do very similar actions to get our military contracts, whether it be ships or virtually anything of a military contract?