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 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…

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…

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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…

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.