Kay Bailey Hutchison

what, for instance, are you doing about hiring the inspectors that you do have in this area with some mass transit or rail experience

I call up amendment No. 423. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The assistant bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Texas [Mrs. Hutchison], for herself, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Burr, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Portman, Mr. Risch, and Mr…

this amendment, I hope, will save our businesses and our States the millions of dollars they are now spending to implement the health care reform bill, which is in the courts. Yesterday, the court in Atlanta--the Eleventh Circuit Court of…

I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows. (Purpose: To delay the implementation of the health reform law in the…

I ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Amendment No. 423

I think that we can come together in the next month and pass a bill that all of us worked very hard to get across the floor of the Senate.

I think that we have to have a system in place that catches any kind of weakness in the system and takes action to remedy it.

I do think that we have had a safe aviation safety performance, and, in general, the air traffic controllers have done a superb job.

I rise to speak in favor of Senator McConnell's production bill. The bill might be too much for some, too little for some, and maybe it is not perfect, but we must take a step in the direction of adding production of our Nation's natural…

We are going to be relying on the Russians to take Americans into space.

We passed an authorization bill overwhelmingly.

The Administration also endorsed commercial crew, consistent with our Committee's vision of the commercial sector 'filling in' behind NASA.

I think the Chairman and I and Senator Boozman and Senator Rockefeller are all very concerned about how slow everything seems to be moving.

We must use the opportunity for the unique research in that Space Station if we are going to reap the benefits from the investment that we have made.

Well, we have one more Shuttle. Is there anyone that is concerned... about whether we still have the capability to do the last Shuttle?

As I said before, the measure of whether we are remaining a great nation or not is whether we can get through this difficult time and maintain our leadership in space.

We do need to continue to have bipartisan support on that.

I think that the authorization bill that brought together the need for the commercial investment and the commercial opportunity, along with the use of our workforce that has the experience of so many years in building the rockets and the…

the Chairman and I and Senator Boozman are all very concerned about the delays, the indecision, the seeming unmotivated approach to modifying contracts

Implementation of the law is a priority for me, and for this Committee. We simply can't afford to get it wrong.

Do you think that we still have the expertise in the employees that are left?

let me close by saying I hope we will not do something so wrongheaded and counterintuitive as to take one section of an industry and say you are bigger than all the others, so we are going to tax you differently. We are not going to give…

I rise to speak in opposition to the Menendez proposal which would raise taxes on a handful of our Nation's energy producers. This bill makes the assumption that raising taxes on the five major oil companies will somehow reduce the deficit…

The Obama Administration chose the flexible path from among the options presented to it by the Human Space Flight Plans Review Committee.

we tried to make the balance right within our budget constraints of a flexible way forward that does support private innovation