Kay Bailey Hutchison

I rise to talk in morning business about the energy issue facing the country. Anyone who has filled up the car or truck in the last month knows we have an energy crisis that is building and needs to be addressed. Last week I filled up my…

I will try to--I will stick to the 5-minute rule.

This administration places our investment in the space station and its capabilities, as well as our future exploration capabilities at serious risk.

As we speak, the United States of America is under attack.

I regard this as a bipartisan effort to protect our borders.

You better worry, Secretary. This looks like the war department to me.

I see the challenge, really, as being a deeper, earlier stage of understanding.

It just seems to me that it would be very difficult to leave out both Houston and Florida.

We have got to have a firm stand on the border to completely stop the corruption from coming across.

We may have to de-scope the vehicle in some manner.

I have seen how the predictions have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars and at least hundreds of lives because I saw in Hurricane Ike the ability to tell people exactly when the hurricane was going to hit.

Well, that would be our hope.

Do you support putting everything in the Department of Commerce that is trade related?

I think we can handle these cases. We have done so in the past.

I am very concerned that you have cut is the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) funding.

I, too, am so looking forward to this, because it has a very poignant side to it, because of Captain Kelly and his wife, who we all are pulling so hard for to be able to come.

Well, my information says that you would be facing a deficit of $200 million if you're left at fiscal year 2010 levels in that particular hybrid squad.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), following the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, is planning to keep the ISS operating until at least 2020.

We are a Nation of a rule of law. Therefore, we need to support an independent judiciary.

We appreciate Senator Hutchison's recognition of the fact that DOJ's roles and responsibilities are varied and critical to the security and safety of our homeland and the American people.

We will end up with, no question, a 130 metric ton vehicle, because that's what we judge is needed if we're going to do a deep space exploration to asteroids and Mars and other places.

I think that the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) hiring funding... is it the priority use of your funding? I don't think so.

I just want to go back to the law that was passed in 2010 regarding the disposition of the orbiter vehicles.

NASA is refusing to allow it to move forward. The President personally revived Orion last year.

I see what they are dealing with at a local level.