Fiscal year 2008 Appropriation Bill requires NASA to issue a report on shuttle workforce loss every six months.

I appreciate your identifying education as an important priority for NASA.

When do you see NASA issuing a contract for heavy-lift system?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I apologize for not being here at the outset. I was Chairing a hearing on Human Rights and Religious Freedom in Vietnam.

If the Administration were, Dr. Holdren, to succeed in canceling the Constellation Program, what space vehicle as we sit here today is capable of carrying humans into space and how soon?

I am not going to say everything you have said is right, or everything you said is wrong, but it was sort of a surprising decision.

You know, 50 percent of the STEM funding last year as laid on the table was not accessed.

NASA sparks vision and hope and inspiration in young people where no other government agency can.

I don't represent Alabama, I don't represent Texas, I don't represent Florida. I represent the Northern Virginia area.

I think it is an abdication of America's leadership. The thought of having to abdicate leadership to the Chinese...

I support strongly what Mr. Ruppersberger does in his committee, and how important those intelligent assets are in orbit.

I voted against the stimulus package, but there were some members, and I thought it made some sense that asked the Administration...

I do not think we are ceding leadership in space to the Russians and the Chinese at all.

And whether other alternatives exist.

Okay. Yes, I would agree with that.

I was disappointed that Secretary Shinseki was unwilling to grant a recent request to eliminate unfair work-at-home policies.

I think the real danger is, and I think we could be approaching the point, is that the fewer manufacturing and fewer things we do in this country...

If you lose somebody after sixth grade, maybe it is fifth grade, maybe it is seventh grade, you are not going to find them again.