"The FAA does, in fact, provide regulations for suborbital flight today, but they are regulations to protect the public."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I thank each of the witnesses who testified today for your expertise and your illuminating comments."
"Would you agree that on any analysis it is a greater potential violation of someone's rights to take their life than it is to capture and interrogate them?"
"It strikes me that Senator Graham raised serious constitutional questions about the Article II role of the Commander in Chief and the appropriate ability of this Congress to restrict the decisions of ..."
"It is critical that the United States ensure its continued leadership in space."
"We have conceptually said 2030s sometime is the appropriate time for Mars, but we can only do that with sufficient funding and moving forward."
"one of the important roles, I think, that this subcommittee can play is helping NASA articulate the benefits of the space program to our Nation."
"One thing you have referred to several times is potential opportunities for mining."
"Do you see any tension between the Obama administration's position that U.S. citizens who are captured aiding Al-Qaeda must be tried in Article III courts instead of military commissions but that none..."
"The real scope I believe of this hearing, and of the concern, is on the scope of Federal power, and in particular the scope of Federal power to engage in targeted killings."
"it should be absolutely not."