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It does suggest the Administration understands the importance of space exploration and funding NASA.

There are some areas of concern of the overweight focus just on exploration.

when you talked about the space technology budget increasing from $700 million to $1 billion, we're happy about that obviously.

Not doing the WFIRST mission from an astrophysics perspective is probably going to be perceived as leaving a hole in that continued science.

I think most of the Members on this Committee in a bipartisan way are very supportive of the multi-mission aspect of NASA.

It's Congress' job, it's the House's job to set the budget priorities and give you that budget.

I expressed some concerns about robbing Peter to pay Paul and, again, the concerns of not having as well-rounded a multi-mission portfolio.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for having this timely hearing and thank you to the witnesses.

So I think this is a very timely hearing as we start to think about, you know, the next technologies and observatories that let us look into our origins as well as what is out there.

With James Webb, am I understanding this correctly, we'll look sometimes backwards in time and look at star formation and, you know, trace the evolution of these galaxies from birth to death and learn much more about our universe?

in an ideal world, we'd have unlimited resources and all of these missions would provide us vast knowledge

The future of our nation depends on our commitment to scientific research and innovation.

we really believe and I'm a strong believer in the wisdom of having a process like the National Academies' insights really driving us

the urgency of addressing this issue and, you know, looking for ways to mitigate the disease but also ultimately looking at ways to reverse and cure disease are, obviously, our ultimate goals.

Anytime you can say neurotoxic amyloid plaques in Congress that is a good day, particularly, as a physician.

I think the Alzheimer's Association has done a wonderful job elevating the level of dialogue but also elevating the dialogue on, you know, why this is a global epidemic.

This is a great hearing and a great time for this hearing to get an update on NASA's exploration systems development activities.

we ought to commit to putting a woman on Mars by 2033.