"It does suggest the Administration understands the importance of space exploration and funding NASA."
"But let's not cut the education budget as well because education is incredibly important, particularly programs like the MUREP program."
"Not doing the WFIRST mission from an astrophysics perspective is probably going to be perceived as leaving a hole in that continued science."
"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 expressed some concerns about robbing Peter to pay Paul and, again, the concerns of not having as well-rounded a multi-mission portfolio."
"It's Congress' job, it's the House's job to set the budget priorities and give you that budget."
"There are some areas of concern of the overweight focus just on exploration."
"I do think there is some concern as we go from one Administration to another."
"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."
"when you talked about the space technology budget increasing from $700 million to $1 billion, we're happy about that obviously."
"Under the chairman's leadership, I think we have long suspected in Syria that there was specific targeting by the Russians to weaponize refugees."