With so much at stake, we must share the truth as soon as possible.

Over the past 15 years, satellite television has grown into a strong competitor to cable by offering consumers in rural as well as urban markets a choice in pay television providers.

Now we are faced once more with the reauthorization of SHVERA.

This has led to price and service competition, which is good for subscribers.

This means that when a satellite subscriber in Huntington, West Virginia tunes-in to CBS, PBS, ABC, FOX or NBC, they hear about events in the state capital and see the successes and trials of their neighbors--not the weather in Manhattan.

Exports account for a smaller portion of American GDP than other leading exporting nations.

Less than 1 percent of U.S. businesses export overseas and nearly 60 percent of these companies trade with only one foreign country.

For the past 5 years, American exports have grown at double-digit yearly rates and have increased from 9.5 percent to 13 percent of our gross domestic product (GDP).

And yet, we could be doing even more to realize America's full export potential.

Now, as the world grows ever more connected, exports have taken an even greater role in our economic livelihood.

I want to thank all of today's witnesses for their testimony before the Subcommittee and for their ongoing work to promote America's businesses and products abroad.

U.S. exports now support six million jobs in the manufacturing sector and nearly one million jobs in the agricultural sector.

America has always reached out around the globe, through its exports.

That would seem to me to be a reasonable and fair requirement for a health insurance company whose business in public life is to provide health insurance with premiums that go back and forth.

Let me be clear, I am not advocating that we abandon space exploration. The case, however, has not yet been made.

The task of examining NASA's human spaceflight plans in a mere 90 days is not an easy one.

In this difficult budget environment where the Federal deficit sets new records with each passing month, our country does not necessarily have the resources to do everything that we want to do.

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