These things do happen. I wouldn't say that it's a regular occurrence but we do get some every month. Most are innocent intrusions.

We shot this well last year as a regular occurrence. We haven't had it this year and it hasn't been done till this game.

The goal of (the safety stand down) was to try to prevent accidents like this. The bottom line is that we're doing everything we can to make sure things like this don't happen.

We have the pros, the right people doing it. We're very confident and when it's done, the orbiter will be as good as can be when it comes to gap fillers.

When Senator Cochran signed on as a co-sponsor to the original bill, it was a regular occurrence — practically an assumption — that Congress would pass large omnibus spending bills at the end of each year. Chairman Cochran proved last year that it was still possible to pass individual appropriations bills annually.

Our forecast shows that it's not going to happen in any month in 2006.