What is your ballpark on 'soon'?

We're here to talk about large flagship missions like Mars 2020 and Europa Clipper missions because they play an important role in using complex instruments to help us understand the challenge of exploring hard-to-reach locations.

I think for both of us, we've talked about this, and for many of us of a generation that grew up in the space race, just the imagination, thinking about, you know, whether it was going to the moon or beyond, the Apollo missions to Skylab…

It is not just about us giving away money or programs, but it is really about raising the capacity.

I really think that there needs to be more attention to ADF.

These missions are incredibly important because it allows us to know that we're part of something bigger, and now we've got Voyager One that is traveling through interstellar space.

the smaller missions form a framework and they set the stage for the kinds of bigger expeditions that we want to do

I have talked to so many businesspeople who say, look, I have a long-term plan and I don't want to have to justify my quarterly numbers.

When you are disclosing, investors are winning. When you are explaining, investors are winning.

I am surprised that this is the focus, but--

It is very important for all of us that you are holding this hearing today.

I certainly don't think that taxing remittances would be a good thing to do. It would be a terrible thing to do.

. . . the sound from air gun activities which in fact is an enormous and obvious impact, we're talking about something that a blast that is one of the loudest anthropogenic sounds in the entire ocean that gets repeated every 10 to 12…

this Administration, with the help of this Congress, is working to eliminate existing scientific guidance...

I really hope the American people are watching, not just the insiders and industry lobbyists...

I think, would be a distraction from our work. Wouldn't you agree?

By contrast, as the courts are beginning to remind this Administration, the current trend toward increased secrecy and one-sided decision making is a recipe for agency over-reach and for natural resource management agencies to go astray.

Unfortunately, the Trump administration and Secretary Zinke seem to have abandoned this commitment to balance and openness, in favor of listening only to industry stakeholders.