Frank Wolf

If we keep cutting the sciences and cutting the different things the Nation--frankly we had Niall Ferguson here who said great nations begin to decline very rapidly.

We have funded NSF at the highest level ever.

The outline, Simpson-Bowles is not the ten commandments.

In 2010 the ocean economy contributed $258 billion to the U.S. gross domestic product.

We are seeing the domestic discretionary squeezed and squeezed.

Until there is a grand bargain, something along the lines, and I am speaking for myself now of Simpson-Bowles, this is going to continue.

I strongly urge the House of Representatives to maintain $45 million for drug courts at the Department of Justice and $4 million for veterans' treatment courts.

Secondly, and Mr. Fattah and I are going to put in a bill for a national commission looking at the whole prison system.

I think hopefully we can come up with some grand bargain that eliminates the sequestration certainly for the next nine years and maybe even for the rest of this year.

Obviously, I am here to support the Bureau moving its headquarters to the State of Virginia.

I would encourage the subcommittee not to limit its search to sites no further than 2.5 miles from the Capital Beltway.

I am here to support the Bureau moving its headquarters to the State of Virginia.

I think it would really be good for the country.

I think if we make these changes, the odds of American maintaining its preeminence in space for the 21st century will dramatically improve.

We need to give NASA the ability to design and build spacecraft and rockets in the same way that the Navy... does.

It is destructive to the morale of the space program, destructive to the psyche of the agency, destructive to the psyche of the country.

They have done a magnificent job for so long, but they have been hamstrung, as we all know, by pillar-to-post funding.

This is not a partisan issue.

Respect for human rights is a non-partisan issue and the United States has an essential role in speaking out against abuses.

We have a memorandum of understanding that I believe is not worth the paper it is printed on.

We complained to the Administration that we knew, because we brought back the socks and the jelly shoes, that were being made by convict labor, including political prisoners, and it was showing up on our shores.

Right after Tiananmen Square, Congressman Frank Wolf and I visited Beijing Prison No. 1, where jelly shoes and socks were being made for export.

This is a big issue in my congressional district, out in Loudoun Valley all the way out to the Shenandoah Valley.

I think we need to take--and I say this to the press--with a grain of salt when he gushes with gratitude for efforts made on his behalf, I believe we have dropped the ball significantly.

I would love to meet with him and his family, but most importantly to hold the administration to account for what they may or may not have done.