I agree. I would echo what Senator Vitter said about the out-years numbers, and I have shared my dissatisfaction with Dr. Orzag and Dr. Holdren about that.

It has been reported in the press that you are negotiating a price of $51 million per seat?

It astounds me that the U.S. will lose its ability to put astronauts into space just as we are completing the International Space Station.

Last year then Senator Obama noted that the Bush Administration had underfunded NASA.

In last year's authorization bill, we emphasized the importance of the ISS as a National Laboratory.

Sometimes NASA does not want itself to be helped. We have got to get our act together.

We cannot afford, as a country, to surrender our long-held leadership in space exploration.

When is that design review?

OK, 65 percent.

For the Space Station to function as a National Laboratory, it has got to have the ability to bring cargo back.

Hey guys, I just want you to know that you have made the spring in the step of every American a little bit bouncier by what you all have accomplished.

this is an incredible example of the interlinking of humans and machines, to accomplish great things.

Hey guys, I wish I were up there with you.

This is really an incredible amount of talent, and also, talent and dedication and courage and diligence.

we thought that that was going to be three dead men on the way when that explosion occurred on the way to the moon, and yet that incredible team, on the ground, working with the astronauts in real-time, who's lives were on the line, we…

And what do we pay per seat now?

Given the current interest rate environment of almost the lowest rates ever, why shouldn't we return to the pre July 1 2006 rate formula which if applied would provide for less than 2 percent interest rates?

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