Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank the ranking member as well. And thank all of you for your dedication to a really tough issue.

I was amazed at the number of people and the different and divergent folks who waited from law enforcement and social agencies, and youth.

We all talk a good game. We are all out here showing all of our support for the VA during election time. During the non-election time, these people still need the same care.

What guarantees that you are not going to be sending one to one of these pill mills?

There is a fundamental debate around the third-party administrators, and one argument in the VA is--one argument is that the VA cannot handle the task of scheduling and administering a non-VA care program, so the private sector has got to…

I will tell you that when I visit veterans in Beckley or in my Clarksburg VA hospitals, they really do not like the third-party administrators because veterans do not think those docs know them, do not know their concerns, their needs, and…

Why would it be voluntary?

The second argument is that third-party administrators do not take care of our veterans, plus we cannot do oversight over them.

Are you capable in the VA of qualifying and overseeing these people?

I'm not sure the private sector is going to step in with so much left undone. I just don't think they'll jump in unless it's a win-win for them.

They suggest, or this suggests, that NASA will move to a spectator sport experience versus the actual hands-on experience.

I would like to talk to you about NASA's Restore-L program, a satellite servicing mission that seeks to prove satellites can be robotically refueled and repaired in space.

I don't know how it can be done without hands-on.

We're working. We're just working a little bit. We'll be talking. It will happen, hopefully.

I'm disappointed in the administration's decision to eliminate NASA Office of Education.

I'm perplexed by NASA's fiscal year 2018 budget request for the Restore-L program.

I join my colleagues, Senators Capito and Van Hollen, in bipartisan support to maintain the current proven team...

So percentage-wise in this space would you say, how much percent is NASA and how much is private industry?