Political Quotes

I want to thank Chairman Bingaman and Ranking Member Murkowski of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee for holding today's hearing in the Subcommittee on National Parks to consider lands bills that impact Texas.

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.

We are paying a heavy price for the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. And the reason that we are paying hundreds of millions of dollars--and it will be in the billions before we are finished--is because we were not able to fund adequately to close the gap for a commercial crew vehicle following on to the shuttle retirement.

So we need to get seven people in that station.