I wanted to just make sure I understood the numbers that the chairman went over.

I heard from a number of people that we would be able to attract a lot of financial investment if we had a better functioning EB-5 program.

So I am sorry I cut you off before you went to the second question.

Well, finally, I would like to just put out a recommendation, which I am sure all of my colleagues will second, that when you are considering the new patent officers you think of southern California.

we kick them out of the country, which seems enormously counterproductive to me, given that we are not creating enough engineers and scientists here.

But the planned trajectory is pretty steep.

And certainly if we can help keep to our guns in terms of any fee diversion, I will help you a great deal.

the last thing I am going to say, and I appreciate the indulgence of the chairman because I know I have taken more than my time, those are all fine words, but they do not make it so.

And by presenting this as a fait accompli, as the administration is trying to do, you are trying to pit one NASA institution, one space effort, against another.

the way the current budget works neither of the top decadal priorities are going to go anywhere.

defunding Europa does not mean that you are pushing forward with Europa; canceling the flagships does not mean you are pushing forward with an aggressive Mars program.

I felt that the James Webb Space Telescope was so critical to this Nation and the international science community, we could not make that shortsighted decision.

I can only conclude that you and OMB and the White House had already made the decision you were going to cancel the Flagship mission and just did not want to tell us.

I have to conclude that the administration, OMB, knew all along that they were going to cancel the Mars missions.

I have to tell you you were absolutely right. Last year when you expressed the concern that James Webb would, among other things, cannibalize everything else you were absolutely, absolutely right.

I am deeply troubled by the NASA budget in which science is cut overall by $62 million planetary science by more than $300 million.

I cannot in good conscience support a budget that says that America's days of leadership in space science are limited;

that is a very sad proposal and one that I cannot accept.

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