Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent my entire statement be read in the record so I might confound your expectation.

NASA is not what it was.

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

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

He said we are going to be on the moon by 2020.

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 think your point is very well taken, but maybe NASA has not done enough to pursue these options, and make it known what is available that is unique.

It is not, and, it needs to be in order to hold its place, and to get proper funding.

I think we have to give an answer, and I think the answer is this unique facility that we have invested hundreds of millions of dollars to build.

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.

The universal response I got was: how could you not be for this legislation? There was a clear perception of a problem.

We needed Federal laws and Federal troops to go in to have this Attorney General's sister-in-law integrate the University of Alabama.

it's hard for me to understand how anybody can oppose that.

To say it's OK--if we vote down this legislation, in a certain sense we are saying it is OK to physically harm people who you don't like because of who they are, and that's a bad thing.

I don't think he meant that. Hopefully he didn't. But it's kind of what our--so I don't think that's accurate.

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

I'm not going to be put in that box. I'm not going to be intimidated.

I do think Federal crimes should be limited to matters of national importance. I don't know of a more important subject than the principles of our Nation and embracing diversity.

I am very concerned by efforts by the European Commission to implement protectionist restrictions on derivatives trading and clearing.

On the systemic risk regulator, we need one, there is no question, and the old way is certainly bad.

I do believe it will close many of the most important regulatory gaps in our system.

A Financial Consumer Product Safety Commission is essential. The Fed failed significantly in this responsibility.