If, in fact, there's a process that's been put in place to consider these proposals and ways in which to do this, I would certainly hope that the FCC would move that process along.

I think it was Mr. Linkous who said all this is useless without broadband.

As Senator Wicker announced, there are plans to introduce a new version of the Telehealth Enhancement Act.

In your testimony, Dr. Henderson, you expressed concern regarding future availability of universal service support.

I certainly think there is great good that has been done.

The program is too engineered and needs a lot of fixes.

Chairman Wicker's Telehealth Enhancement Act includes a range of incremental, budget-sensitive improvements for Medicare and Medicaid.

I believe the taxpayer's investment in NASA is generally well spent, and that I support increasing NASA's budget.

The concern that I have is that the Administration did not propose offsets to account for the increase.

We appreciate very much your assistance in helping us identify the priorities of NASA and related activities.

Cuts to the Planetary Science Division will empty the pipeline for outer-planet missions and force scientists and engineers into other fields and to foreign projects.

Cuts to NASA education hurt NASA's ability to engage and inspire the next generation of explorers.

Cuts to Heliophysics are weakening our ability to understand and predict solar storms that could threaten astronauts in space.

Discretionary spending such as research and development investments at NASA is the seed corn of future economic growth.

I had hoped that the Administration would have demonstrated leadership by proposing a realistic budget.

Unfortunately, the President's budget proposal does not comply with his own Budget Control Act.

I believe the taxpayers' investment in NASA is generally well spent, and that I support increasing NASA's budget if we're assured American access to space.

I want to get away from dependence on the Russians. We now have American commercial cargo capability demonstrated.