Money is too scarce, the missions are too important for it to go into something where we don't have anything to show for it.

And I know Senator Shelby feels the same passion I do.

Well, I think that is an interesting insight.

I would like you to submit for the record the 10 top safety and hazard concerns.

I think there does need to be adequate training, and I think that is a core function of what these grant-making entities need to do.

I have many questions. Actually, I have 13 pages of questions.

So do you have thoughts or recommendations you would like to make to us?

We want to have a chance for you to amplify the needs that that unique unit has.

We are in addition to. We are not in lieu of what either Maryland, Virginia, or the District of Columbia, the Virginia localities would contribute.

Do you feel that you have enough resources to be dealing with this magnitude of caseload and also with the fact that this is now involved with international activity?

I think you get a flare here. When it comes to the space program, we have really been a bipartisan group.

I don't think that is an appropriate congressional role.

I believe that there is a real commitment on this subcommittee, and people like Senator Tom Coburn had excellent ideas.

This includes our great iconic universities, Hopkins in Maryland, and our private sector.

Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?

I think this is a very good guidance.

the President of the United States was volcanic after the Christmas Day bomber and ordered significant reforms.

I would strongly recommend in the interim, people who have those concerns bring it to those that they elected to represent them in the workplace.

I absolutely agree that we will hold another hearing to be able to pursue any topics.

Well, that is a pretty startling kind of breakdown there because it is the rail that carries the majority of the passengers.

Well, in light of what has happened, I think there are going to be a lot of recommendations, and we would welcome your views on that.

But, it means, then, if you're small- to medium sized, you've got to pick your country, and you've got to find your foreign commercial service officer.

Mr. Attorney General, I am not asking that. I am asking about the law and the fact that every report that has been issued says the law is now either gray, dated, or nonexistent on this.

It is time to retire the space shuttle, and the President provides for that at the end of calendar 2010.

Senators Dodd, Menendez, Mikulski, and I introduced The Public Transportation Safety Program Act that will require the Transportation Secretary to establish and implement a comprehensive Public Transportation Safety program.