Barbara Mikulski

This plan would destroy decades of U.S. space supremacy by pinning our hopes for success on unproven commercial companies.

If this proposal is the best that we can do as a Nation, then we do not deserve, I believe, the rich heritage of human space flight.

The 2011 NASA budget is $19 billion, $276 million more than 2010.

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

I want to say promises made, promises kept. We are really going to go after that fraud and abuse.

I believe that there hasn't been nationally, in every agency, the kind of vigor that we need really in pursuing Medicare and Medicaid fraud.

When you use that phrase, they hold their sides and laugh. They don't think that we really mean it.

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

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 want to acknowledge that you did oversight of the project, and I know--I believe you have been personally involved in overseeing this.

I will say, having been through this path before, I am cautiously optimistic that we are on the path to get that accomplished.

I like the tough talk. We have to ask some tough questions, though, about another aspect.

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

This white collar crime--insidious, virulent, and despicable--is really undermining our families.

The country is at war. The country is familiar with our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we are at war right this very minute with cyber attacks on the United States.

I believe it is an abomination to victims, law enforcement, and the Constitution when Congress, the Department of Justice, and the White House blindly ignore the professional opinion of the most renowned DNA experts in the world.

We think the FBI has the right stuff. We want to make sure that we have given you the right resources.

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

The FBI has an incredible job, and we are really proud.

This hearing is concluded and we stand in recess until March 25 at 10 a.m.

I believe we need to use all the tools of the new way of communicating, particularly the social networking.

We need a lot of red alerts and alarms and--to know where, as you say, kind of like the dash--the lights on a dashboard--where are we in this process?

The greater the rate of return, the less this--enumerators--will be needed.

So that hiring has to be completed, and all appropriate background checks, by May 1.

I think those are very good observations.