I concur with the Senator from West Virginia. No realignments will be allowed to continue before the completion of the board's recommendations, unless the affected employees and the FAA agree in writing to do so.

I just think we have got to start looking at the money that we are spending overseas and is it better to have permanent bases in America.

I appreciate what the Senator from North Dakota has stated. I am also working in this group to try to finish this FAA reauthorization bill. There is so much in this bill that will let airports throughout our country have the stability and…

Sending hundreds of millions of dollars to the Russian government and hoping they will not raise the price further, is simply the wrong approach.

I am very concerned about the direction President Obama has proposed for NASA and for human spaceflight.

The proposed budget offers a complete departure from the current approach approved twice by this committee, in our 2005 and 2008 NASA Authorization Acts.

I feel that your qualifications, Dr. Weener, are excellent.

The human spaceflight gap created by these delays threatens not only our Nation's access to the International Space Station and other areas of space, but also our national security and economic interests.

The President's proposal to scrap the Constellation program and other NASA human spaceflight activities, I fear, will only intensify the space gap problem, not improve it as is claimed.

I look forward to working with my colleagues to consider this request and to making sure that the FTC has the resources and authorities that it needs to execute its vital consumer protection mission.

Protecting consumers is a key responsibility of the FTC and of this committee, and we can stay true, in my judgment, to that goal while not complicating the efforts of thousands of businesses to create new jobs.

I rise today to speak on this health care reform bill that is purportedly going through the House right now. I just have to speak on it because it is so obvious that the American people do not want this bill, and yet now the Democrats seem…