The need is clear. To reduce the budget by 55 percent would be catastrophic.

Thank you for your public service.

Courthouses must be a safe harbor to which members of the public come to resolve disputes that often are volatile.

We do have obviously fiscal pressures on us and we have many of our fellow citizens who believe the federal government should be free from spending money.

But your judgment is in question if you sincerely believe the Senate is going to do anything at any point.

We hope that you will continue to strongly support funding for the National Science Foundation.

You can expound to whatever degree you like given that there are less than eight minutes left on this vote.

And I think the country will be excited to witness the Space Exploration Meeting that the President is coming to lead and to listen.

I think that you know, given the work of this Committee and the leadership of our Chairman, that we are very interested in trying to make sure that Legal Services can continue and improve to close this justice gap.

I just thought in the United States of America that we would not be in a position where we would be fearful of taking someone who had harmed American citizens and of putting him before the bar of justice.

I want to go through a couple of things.