One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved. |
Our nation recommitted itself to making manned space flight as safe as possible after the Challenger explosion. But these efforts have lagged amid the budget pressures and cuts of recent years. Now, in the wake of this new tragedy, we need to make a new commitment. And we must live up to it. |
Remember, we had three very rude visitors this year: Katrina, Rita and Wilma, ... That has disrupted the lives of senior citizens in the Southeastern United States considerably. |
She has an extremist's position, |
Sir, as in so much, this depends on Hugo Chavez. |
Sixty percent of our daily consumption of oil in this country is from a foreign source, ... Every alternative source is going to be very important to us. Within a decade, if America puts its mind to it, we could be independent of foreign oil. |
Sixty to 80 percent of outages are caused by change. It doesn't break until you change it. We've added context launch, so that from within a fault or performance management system, you can click on the device that's having a problem and pull up the change history on that device. It allows you to eliminate a huge amount of manually tracking down why a device has changed, what the approval process was and so on. |
Sometimes we get lost in seeing the entire forest for the particular trees, but I think we need to pull back and see that this threat of radical terrorists is now being directed not only at us in the homeland, but it is being directed at a source of energy upon which the western industrialized world has become dependent. |
that I can't filibuster. |
That means that a physician could determine that a woman could be paralyzed for life and it would not be considered an adequate exception under this legislation, |
That was one of the best wins we've ever had. Going into district play, if we lose, we are going to be in trouble. If we win, we've got a shot at the playoffs. That was a big one. |
that will ensure that the Congress and the people get an honest budget request. |
The clash comes when you get to the point you have launched all the components to the space station that you can and you get to 2010, ... At that point I don't think there is any choice but to increase the budget to continue launching the shuttle. |
The ESOP was the way to go because it had distinct tax advantages, and it allowed a smooth and predictable transition. |
The first year after [President John] Kennedy announced the Apollo program, the NASA budget was doubled, |