Is it not possible that the answer to your budget issues is to fund fewer vendors?

But isn't some of the program, it seems to a lot of people, to be a march away from NASA--in other words, into the private sector and vendors--rather than what NASA has proven over many years to have?

For the millions of Americans suffering from a serious illness, biomedical research is the beginning of hope.

What about that kind of percentage?

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.

When the NIH requests $30 billion or more in taxpayer dollars for biomedical research, which I think is not enough, shouldn't reproducibility, replication of these studies, be a part of the foundation by which the research is judged?

I think this is an important issue due to the global nature of modern financial markets.

Dodd-Frank fails to exempt foreign Government securities from the prohibition on proprietary trading by banks.

Explosives detection canine teams are proven and reliable resources in the detection of explosives and are a key component in a balanced counter-sabotage program.

I have serious concerns about this proposed cut, given the importance of canines in the explosives detection enterprise.

A lot of people warned that it would create a TARP II bailout.

A recent Treasury report dispute this notion, stating that it is not a TARP program.