OK. But that would likely not be large enough--I guess there it did strike, so----

I have not been, but I will have to add it to the list of places to take my daughters, and hopefully it--

You also testified about your estimates of the probability of a 5-megaton incident or a 100-megaton incident, which, if I remember right, was 30 percent and 1 percent, respectively?

Space flight and our capacity to maintain world-leading advantage in space flight is a critical priority for the nation.

Let me ask a final question, which is, in your professional judgment, and I would ask this to anyone at the panel who would wish to answer it, what else should we be doing to assess the threats that could seriously jeopardize human life…

Because, again, I think a demonstration that humanity can work together to go out there and do something incredible--changing the Solar System to prevent our planet from being hit is an incredible demonstration of science, technology…

You know, going back to the discussion about potential meteor impacts, I would assume for an impact that the most likely place for an impact would be in water, given the percentage of the Earth that is covered by water.

If that same meteor, instead of striking a relatively rural area, had struck Manhattan, what would likely the consequence of that have been?

My focus for a long time has been and I think the focus of all of us should be on economic growth.

In my view, the surest protection of consumers is vigorous competition.

I note that today is the 40th anniversary of the release of John McCain from a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam. I wanted to take a moment in this body to thank Senator McCain for his extraordinary service to our Nation. On October 26…

I thank the Senator from Maryland and I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for 5 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. TRIBUTE TO JOHN McCAIN