We are now reevaluating that policy, and you all have begun to give us a sense of how we should proceed.
have the engines and all the support provided the foreign and domestic contractors met all U.S. Government requirements ...
But would you agree that we need a tested and certified domestic alternative that meets all relevant performance criteri...
I think the VA should do that. But I would actually argue that currently the VA has metriced themselves to death.
Our mission here as a Congress and a country is to assure access to space for both civil and military missions.
I think you said yes, but I want to make sure I was clear on that.
A great benefit to us.
We treat every launch as if it is our very first.
I would just hope that we would have this panel back in the fall after Dr. Frieden completes his investigation and puts ...
There is an increasing number of labs that are handling these bioagents, correct?
There has never been one agency in charge despite the red flags going up all of these years?
But with all due respect, we are not overreacting here. This has got to be solved.
I think we can all agree the reports on this incident are bad.
The record shows that CDC had ample warnings and should have been focused on the problems in their high containment labs...
There is really no one agency in charge, is that correct?
Like all of us, I am deeply troubled by what we have learned about this incident.
This is obviously an alarming series of failures, but there were other problems at CDC that made this incident worse.
We cannot legislate. We can do a lot, but we cannot legislate a culture change. It has to come from within the Agency.