Kay Bailey Hutchison

I have long advocated for passage of Main Street fairness legislation.

We can all compete on price, and all of us can actually compete on any offer that's made on the Internet.

Without this deduction, taxpayers in Texas would see their Federal tax bills increase by an average of $500 for 2012.

I'm in favor of this act.

I strongly support states' rights, and I think they should have the power to decide for themselves if it is in their constituents' best interests to change their respective state laws to collect sales taxes from remote sellers.

In my state of Texas, which does not have an income tax, we rely heavily on revenue collected by sales taxes.

I write to applaud you for holding a hearing on the sales tax fairness issue.

our bill also allows for a true collaborative effort. The reason we are not supporting the bill that is on the floor today is because we believe it does not do the priorities that we can pass, and it does increase the mandates and the…

I have listened to the distinguished Senator and chairman of the Homeland Security Committee and the presentation of the bill that I assume will be voted on today. I appreciate very much that we have had the meetings. There are really two…

I am a budget cutter. I am a person that wants to set the top line of a budget, but then it is so important that we set the priorities for what goes in that budget.

Yes, because I know they have done breast cancer cell growth in space. And if they could do the same for that, that would be a medical breakthrough of phenomenal proportions.

First of all, Mr. Royston, thank you for the report. Because we are anxiously awaiting the appointment of the board so that we can see the CASIS get up and go and really start showing results.

Can we put an orbiting satellite up with cameras that could do what the Space Station does?

Could I just pursue this for one second and ask you if you have got vaccines, and can it also apply to cancers?

Thank you very much.

That is going to be essential because you can't manufacture enough up there to bring back very easily.

I like your virus issue. You need to cover that.

So important. That is so important because we do have people who say, oh, we can do all of this so much more efficiently with no people, and just machines.

Senator Nelson and I, and many others, have tried to assure that we don't eat our seed corn, that we continue research, that we continue to reach for the stars, to go beyond where we are now.

I think it really important in the sense that one of the things that you all have to do a good job as components of the agency is being able to relate what the positive things that are going on.

So we need to get seven people in that station.

There have been people who have tried to abolish NASA, frankly.

Establishing our part of the Space Station as an American national laboratory was a great accomplishment.

I was a strong proponent of that cross-ownership ban because there were two markets, one with which I was very familiar, Dallas, Texas, but also Atlanta, Georgia, where there was such a lock on the media outlets with the only newspaper in…

There will be a lot of disagreement about the way forward.