Without even a nominee for Administrator, this administration has chosen to let their budget proposal be the face of NASA until a successful nominee is confirmed.

If constellation is moving forward, then why is Ares-V, the heavy-lift rocket, that is essential to landing a man on the Moon, being delayed?

It's my understanding that section 505 of the omnibus clearly prohibits funding for new activities.

The Congress explicitly provided $400 million to the exploration program in 2009 economic stimulus bill to close the gap between the Shuttle and constellation programs, as I understand it.

Well, I appreciate this. I know you have to start in the lab, but then you've got to move from the lab to the clinics to prove what's going on. So we have to have both, do we not?

This is a sizable sum with our budget, considering the funding constraints that the Federal Government faces.

You've got to have it, hadn't you?

A fictional space program will always be faster, better, and cheaper than a real space program, but it won't be one.

I support additional funding for NIH research, but in particular, I would like to emphasize today the importance of accelerating research in the area of Cystic Fibrosis (CF).

I would have trouble supporting a budget that is poised to eliminate a real manned space program and instead maintains the fantasy of one.

Do you believe that is a fair system in today's 21st century considering all the conflicts?

We will have to do that to have a real market economy, will we not?