Let me repeat that. The White House adviser on science and technology policy testified that there was no real research or verification done on the viability of the administration's approach for the commercial market to sustain America's…

This request, I believe, abandons our Nation's only chance to remain the leader in space and instead chooses to set up a welfare program for the commercial space industry.

The President's budget proposes to reward those failed commercial providers with an additional bailout.

It seems to me this is a clear violation of the law that says no money will be used--no funds will be used in any way to change or modify the program for fiscal 2010.

If the commercial route is truly the route that you are headed; wouldn't it be cheaper and wiser to just use a Dragon capsule for this purpose?

The future of human space flight is being proposed to be given, as I understand it, to companies that have never launched humans before.

Any nation that wants to remain No. 1 on Earth must also be No. 1 in space.

The President's plan only ensures that for decades to come, the United States will be both subservient to and reliant on other countries for our access to space.

To abandon Ares I as a baseline vehicle for an alternative without demonstrated capability nor proven superiority, or even equivalence, is unwise and probably not cost-effective.

The President's new plan, like his old one, shows that NASA's leadership team still does not understand the issues at stake.

The President's alternative plan will actually cost us more money and delay our ability to get ourselves into space.

Obama doesn't get it. Space is last frontier. President Obama, in effect, pulled the plug on our space program.