As Senator Hutchison pointed out, this Act authorizes to replicate and implement programs in institutions of higher learning that have integrated course of study in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and teacher education.

Madam President, I am pleased to follow the Senator from Minnesota because we did work on a piece of legislation, which she perfected. It was my bill that first passed on stalking that would take the antistalking laws nationwide because so…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that this statement be included in the Record upon introduction of my legislation, the Church Plan Clarification Act of 2012, with Senator Cardin. Today, my colleague Senator Cardin and I are…

So would we be looking at something that would go to Mars while maybe the Curiosity might still be working, but yet another one that might have the return capability that would be a next goal to achieve, again looking toward humans going…

Let me ask you this. You mentioned better utilizing the Space Station as one of the things that we ought to do because there may be a term limit on that of 2020.

Well, we have certainly tried to lower the number of commercial operators that are going to get the Federal seed money just because I think we agreed that that was just more than we could take away from SLS and Orion.

We have got to be a reliable partner in order to keep an alliance like that going.

We are talking about the kind of commitment that you suggest, which is putting different vehicles' capabilities together so that it doesn't all fall on us.

An enduring vision for NASA should be set by the President and supported in Congress.

The goal is to have one. So that is the goal, and we are looking at the efficiency and making sure we are not paying just as much as we would had we kept it all in NASA.

Just to follow up, we always hear that the most important thing that we could find is that there might be evidence of water, which then might lead to some thought that there was some kind of life.