While I agree as we all do that competition is important, prudent decisions in constrained fiscal environments such as this, are very important.

I want to know why Goddard was cut $300 million.

The bottom line is you need more money; is that right?

Such a disjointed request, I believe, ignores current fiscal realities and raises immediate questions about the administration's priorities.

The space station was never constructed to be there in perpetuity, was it?

I want us to not only win the Nobel Prizes, but I want us to win the markets.

And it's important to hear, because----

we simply cannot afford such an increase in spending while operating under our current budget constraints.

Where are we exactly on that, as far as staffing the program?

What is the Department of Commerce doing to ensure that this system, a CEDCaP will not become another costly technological setback?

we want an accurate count, because this is very important to a lot of us on the Gulf.

Yes, he is a Republican and, yes, I am a Democrat. But we are 100 percent Marylanders, and we are 100 percent involved in dealing with heroin.