"These cuts, if enacted, would erode ongoing science missions, jeopardize core operations, and delay exploration launches."
"Asking for less invites delay, increased costs, and inefficient program management, I believe."
"We all want to get rid of them, but we have to be measured in how we do it."
"I think American industry has risen to the occasion when you look at Blue Origin and Jeff Bezos and what he is doing with ULA and the team there, to help develop a new launch system."
"We appreciate your appearance today. We look forward to trying to work with you in putting this appropriation together."
"Well, I think we have a lot of work to do in the subcommittee, but with Senator Mikulski's experience and help, maybe we can work through it."
"the discretionary budget request proposes, which I mentioned in my opening statement, to cut SLS by $770 million, and Orion by $217 million."
"The simple fact, I believe, is this: that the administration prioritized funding elsewhere in the Government's budget."
"Without these funds, I believe NASA's ability to reach far beyond Earth's orbit is at risk of delay and cost escalation."
"The truth is that NASA's request is only $18.26 billion, a cut of $1 billion from what this subcommittee provided in the last fiscal year."
"In the area of getting into non-discretionary funding, nearly 5 percent of NASA's budget proposal is comprised of funding gimmicks, I believe, which are contingent upon tax increases and other legisla..."