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Bob Bennett is a former Republican U.S. Senator from Utah, who served from 1993 to 2011. He was the first Utah senator to be elected to three consecutive terms. During his time in office, Bennett was known for his moderate stance on various issues, including healthcare and fiscal responsibility. He played a significant role in the Senate Appropriations Committee and was involved in efforts to reform the U.S. healthcare system. Bennett was defeated in the 2010 Republican primary, which marked the end of his political career in the Senate. He has remained active in political discussions and has contributed to various policy initiatives since leaving office.
If we don't turn around and have a good precipitation year--we're in a 10-year drought cycle in the Colorado River basin--we're looking at the possibility, within a couple years, of having to declare a shortage in the Lower Colorado River…
We have launched over 100 shuttle flights, all of which have begun their journey on solid rocket motors made in Utah, a fact of which I am extremely proud.
The agency's track record in managing large construction projects is not encouraging.
I very much applaud your top-line budget request. You need the money; you've shown the courage of asking for it.
If you kill the industrial base of solid rocket motors now with this action, in 2015 you cannot get it back.
The Federal Government will use Federal power and Federal dollars to do this for one portion of the citizenship and not the other.
I don't believe the current plan of the President will allow the United States, a country which has been the leader in space technology development for over 40 years, to continue to lead the world in space exploration.
I am concerned with the priorities that I see in the budget with respect to energy research.
The real issue is the Colorado River Basin--and all the figures that Secretary Castle quoted are the ones we're working with.
Okay. Now, in spite of all of the talk about the top line going up so dramatically, your request for day-to-day operations is down 7 percent, or $1.3 billion.
This issue is extremely important to Utah and to me personally, so I am sincere in my gratitude.
We are looking at a 20 percent reduction in the water supply for the Colorado River.
The primary issues that we are faced with right now in the country are jobs and the deficit.
Most disturbing to me and others who share my concern about this--this is not strictly a Utah parochial issue--is the lack of evidence--it is a complete lack of evidence--of any coordination between the National Aeronautics and Space…
For the record, Secretary Gates, was anyone at the Pentagon consulted about the national security implications prior to NASA making a decision to cancel the Constellation program?
The revenues that come from oil and natural gas, next to the income tax, are the largest source of revenue in the Federal Government.
It is pretty tough to come up with any example of a Federal program that can produce $146 return on every $1 spent.
I believe that this administration has made a very serious mistake in restructuring the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
In the RFS II rulemaking, did Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rely on the DOE small refinery study that Congress had determined to be unreliable and needed to be revised?
We live at a time when there is talk of a 'potential' or 'growing' missile threat from another nation almost every day in the news.
I think the implications for this are very serious. NASA, I think, is making a mistake.
I think there is going to be an impact both on the jobs and on the amount of money that the Federal Government receives.
The one thing that I hear most often and I think my colleagues hear most often as they talk about where we are right now, a constant, constant complaint that banks aren't lending.
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