10/05/2011
https://www.congress.gov...
"This administration, I believe, seems to think that NASA's job is to use taxpayer money as venture capital to support speculative commercial companies."
"pleased with the steady progress of U.S. commercial providers in developing domestic cargo and crew transportation services."
"I believe that the core mission of NASA is to build cutting-edge systems that will allow us to expand our knowledge of the universe."
"we're going to do our best to make sure that our budget is not only not decreased, but we hopefully increase it a little bit"