"There are some areas of concern of the overweight focus just on exploration."
"But let's not cut the education budget as well because education is incredibly important, particularly programs like the MUREP program."
"If we think about our own history and think about when President Kennedy challenged us to put a person on the Moon, we set a focus and we didn't change every four years."
"I expressed some concerns about robbing Peter to pay Paul and, again, the concerns of not having as well-rounded a multi-mission portfolio."
"I do think there is some concern as we go from one Administration to another."
"It's Congress' job, it's the House's job to set the budget priorities and give you that budget."
"when you talked about the space technology budget increasing from $700 million to $1 billion, we're happy about that obviously."
"one of the concerns, though, is with that increased budget but with that increased focus on exploration we do have a worry that more of the budget for space technology is going to focus on the explora..."
"I think most of the Members on this Committee in a bipartisan way are very supportive of the multi-mission aspect of NASA."
"Not doing the WFIRST mission from an astrophysics perspective is probably going to be perceived as leaving a hole in that continued science."
"Under the chairman's leadership, I think we have long suspected in Syria that there was specific targeting by the Russians to weaponize refugees."
"The importance of finding resolution to the Syrian issue is paramount because the other impression I walked away with is most of the Syrian refugees did not have a side in this civil war."