If we fail to act now, the President and this Administration will be remembered for killing America's leadership in space exploration.
We asked that he consider not the cancellation of the Constellation program, but the restructuring of it.
We will be, for the first time in nearly 50 years, for a period of years unable to go into low-Earth orbit.
We also asked the President for the safe completion of the current Space Shuttle manifest even if it has to be flown into next year.
Our 50-year legacy of leadership in space is on the line, and we need to have a credible plan to make the next step forward.
We are going to relinquish our status as leaders and pioneers in space exploration.
American exceptionalism demands that we do better than the proposal that has been put forward that does not have the plans to implement it i...
We asked for the extension of the International Space Station's life, instead of it being cutoff in 2015 as previously planned.
It is time to have an honest conversation about the Space Shuttle and its importance to our short-term capabilities.
We cannot assume the agency will have unlimited resources for every mission it wants to undertake.
We need its scientific minds to be involved in solving today's and tomorrow's challenges in energy, medical research, robotics.
We must leverage our existing capabilities and workforce to reach our goal.
We asked that he consider a strong vision statement. In fact, we specifically said a vision of going to Mars.
We here in the legislative branch are going to try to continue to work with the Administration to refine his plan and change some parts of i...
I want to continue a little bit along the line of Senator Bunning. I also had some concerns about the arbitrariness of what the standards ar...
The President has pledged $3.7 billion for STEM education in the budget, including $1 billion for K-12 STEM education.
But then to have this action, whether it was technology-driven, whether it was a result of the overall actions of the dramatic increase of h...
I think we all saw recently, on May 6th, how challenging the merging of the advance of technology, high-frequency trading, and some of the r...
