I have been critical of NASA's financial and program management.

We asked that he consider not the cancellation of the Constellation program, but the restructuring of it.

If the leadership we have acquired through our investment is simply allowed to fade away, other nations will surely step in where we have faltered.

I do think there are interesting opportunities to leverage off of things.

I do not believe that this would be in our best interests.

American exceptionalism demands that we do better than the proposal that has been put forward that does not have the plans to implement it in a safe and secure way.

We are going to relinquish our status as leaders and pioneers in space exploration.

I think NASA was conceived brilliantly with the idea of simply doing something that had never been done before.

first, let me thank my colleagues for being here this morning. I am pleased to join this effort. I want to particularly thank my colleague from Missouri, who has been a relentless voice on opening up and bringing a little sunshine to not…

I will wrap up very quickly. We saw today, for example, in a matter of a moment or two, Procter & Gamble--one of America's premier companies--fall from $60 to $39. We saw another company fall from around $30 to a penny stock. This was not…

I rise in opposition to both the second-degree amendment and the initial Brown-Kaufman amendment. I understand their goals. I believe the chairman's bill addresses those goals. We have 10 percent total liabilities in the United States in…

I also wish to comment on what happened in the market today. The stock market was down about 347 points. But what was more telling was the stock market, at one point today, approached a loss of 1,000 points which, if it had held, would…

I want to continue a little bit along the line of Senator Bunning. I also had some concerns about the arbitrariness of what the standards are of breaking trades, but you have got to draw a line somewhere.

I think there is also a bigger problem about market trust here.

As we sort through how we try to prevent this, we also have got to sort through to make sure that everybody is operating on a level playing field.

I think we all saw recently, on May 6th, how challenging the merging of the advance of technology, high-frequency trading, and some of the results of perhaps not having totally in place all of the appropriate circuit breaker, stopgaps, and…

But then to have this action, whether it was technology-driven, whether it was a result of the overall actions of the dramatic increase of high-frequency trading, is something that I hope we will be able to get to in this hearing today.

let me follow on my colleague's comments. He is my colleague and my friend and my partner for the last year. I think we've both, as former business guys, said this is not an issue that should be partisan. We need to check our ``D'' and…

I definitely recall, you know, getting panicked calls from some of the folks who manage my investments to say, you know, we do not know what is happening, and to see this $1 trillion loss.

The President has pledged $3.7 billion for STEM education in the budget, including $1 billion for K-12 STEM education.

I commend the Senator from California for her amendment. As one of the people who was charged by the chairman to work on this section of how we make sure we put appropriate barriers to firms getting too large and barriers to firms being…

Clearly, we have to make sure our goal is setting rules and regulations that will stand the test of time. We have to make sure we end the notion of too big to fail. I know the approach of the Presiding Officer is to look at size. I think…

I appreciate the opportunity to follow the chair and the ranking member of the Banking Committee and the chair and the ranking member of the Agriculture Committee on this critically important debate. I commend their work, the great amount…

Again, one final comment. I know the Presiding Officer is a new Member as well. This is one of those moments when there has been a year and a half of bipartisan work that has gone on, when there seems to be a commonality of interest in…

I rise today to urge my colleagues to support bringing forward Chairman Dodd's regulatory reform bill. The chairman has just spoken with great passion about how we got here. I want to take perhaps somewhat of a similar tack and describe…