We believe in private property and that if you invented it, you should get to keep it and make sure that nobody steals it.

Well, Madam Secretary, thank you for that testimony.

We will be holding a full committee hearing, all hands on deck, on innovation, particularly in terms of life science and others.

Your goal was to send astronauts to the space station on U.S. rockets by 2017.

We will be having a full committee hearing on physical infrastructure, how we have to look across the committees on our physical infrastructure needs.

This subcommittee will now stand in recess to May 1st at 10 a.m., when we take the testimony of the NASA Administrator, Charles Bolden.

Well, I'm going to raise the fee issue. There are two important agencies that are crucial to innovation...

We need to look forward to doing that communication.

NASA will continue to be these things and more, but only if we provide it with the stability and resources needed.

The American public is counting on the President. They are counting on each of us here in this room to have honest conversation about where we are at this time in our nation's space program, and to make tough choices.

I support the President's Growth Initiative to make further investments in research and development.

I am and always have been passionate about NASA and our space program.

One priority is to create more jobs. The other is to retain the jobs we have, and even the possibility of bringing jobs back home from overseas.

We're all Senators and we need to trust each other.

So that is why we worked with Senator Murray and Senator Sessions to pass a budget that canceled sequester.

I don't want science to be a bank account for other projects that might or might not happen in the future.

The choice for Congress is that in order for you to commit to making that 2017 date, we have to commit to the 848.3.

I appreciate your commitment to that issue, and I hope that we will not rehash some of the arguments in the past, but look forward to how we can build upon that program to make it even more effective as we move forward.