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

we have funded NSF at the highest level ever.

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.

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

Our oceans and our coasts are among our greatest natural resources and largest public trust.

Until we deal with the entitlements, until you are prepared to raise the retirement age for social security, until you are prepared to pass something like Simpson-Bowles these programs will continue to get squeezed and squeezed.

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.

We need to stop taking the 'ocean' out of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I think it would really be good for the country.

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.

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

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.

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

I was one who opposed Ambassador Locke's confirmation to the Ambassadorship, and I told him so and he knew it.

I have written every official in the Obama administration--the State Department--the Trade Representative comes before and is funded by my subcommittee.