Bob Bennett: “I also want to thank my colleague, Senator Stevens, the chairman of the full committee, for his contribution today.”

I can understand the impulse for a moratorium. I am not at all sure that a blanket moratorium as broad as this one will produce any higher degree of safety than a more targeted kind of thing.

I believe that this administration has made a very serious mistake in restructuring the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

I would urge you to have conversations with whatever 'elves' within the administration you deal with, over at OMB, because I think that's where the decision was made.

But just because you have the right to do it does not mean it is the right thing to do.