I understand that. Mr. Zuckerberg is a brilliant person.

I think it is hard to imagine that we would provide 20 million in Federal dollars to coordinate other Federal dollars.

But my point is, that has already been in place.

This is a troubling development that could severely hurt the growth and surplus in U.S. agricultural exports.

Well, as you said, I think, in the beginning, businesses do what businesses do and if we create a law that allows them to bring in unlimited numbers of foreign workers, we are going to expect what we get.

I just, frankly, do not see this.

Is the DOD still evaluating the appropriate contracting structure in the future, in terms of launch services, capabilities, and infrastructure, to maintain assured access to space and have fair competition?

the trend of having such a large number of foreign tech workers is depressing wages, but it is also depressing the likelihood that American kids will go into these fields.

Discouraging U.S. graduates.

Before I stop, I want to go to what Ms. McFarland just described as this potential gap of time when we won't have access, particularly on the heavy-lift...

Well, Professor Borjas at Harvard, I think, he did it by skill set and found the more of a skill set that you have, a flow of foreign labor does pull down wages.

And I think that is what is, I think, frustrating to so many Americans is that the regulations and burden has just come to a level where there is just a lot of frustration out there.

I think that we should support it, and that is with the budget requests.

This H-1B program is a jobs program. It is a temporary job process by which a corporation says they cannot fill a job and they need a temporary worker.

It probably won't take 2 years, but I would be surprised if it took less than 18 months.

Ms. Shotwell, you were recently quoted in the media stating that SpaceX is working on a higher-thrust engine.

I think that has much validity and I share that view for a lot of reasons.

Well, people are not commodities. We compare labor to commodities, but they are not commodities. They are human beings.