Legislation is sorely needed to reform our Nation's civil justice system.

These cases, and many like them, have wrongly cost innocent people and business owners their reputations and even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

There is no more important issue this Subcommittee can address than that of preserving jobs for American workers.

We cannot ignore the adverse impact of mass low-skilled immigration and the lack of enforcement of our immigration laws.

We should design our immigration policy so that it enhances, rather than diminishes, opportunities for American workers.

It is my personal opinion that someone over at the White House seems to have very little interest in working with the Congress.

I am concerned that the future of our space program is in very serious jeopardy and has been since the President ran a line through the word Constellation.

The President made a speech to the Nation just last January told all of us that we had not only to work together, and that is a good speech, we should work together, that we even had to sit together that night.

Today my science budget is under attack because of the rising cost of a launch vehicle.

In the area of human spaceflight, I am concerned about having assured access to the International Space Station for the United States and our international partners.

Yet last year the President, without warning, cancelled Constellation in favor of a commercial crew proposal.