the only person that can lead America's space program is the President of the United States.

I ask each of you to join with President Obama, me and the NASA team that I hope to lead with your confirmation in partnership with Lori Garver.

NASA is not what it was.

I want to pursue the International Space Station, because Senator Nelson and I, when we were Chairmen and Ranking on the Space Subcommittee, designated the American part of the Space Station as a national laboratory.

If the President will give that bold strike, then that team right there, I believe, can implement it.

President Obama has nominated Polly to be Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy at the Department of Transportation, and he simply could not have made a better choice.

I have long been an advocate of the so-called Tri-City Corridor between New Haven and Springfield, Massachusetts.

I wrote a letter to President Obama urging him to establish better coordination between Federal authorities responsible for transportation, housing, energy, and environmental policy.

She is in the mainstream.

It is rare for people of our sensibilities to ask for law enforcement, to have the Federal Government intervene.

We are trusting that you will make the laws of this land to govern all of the people equally and justly.