Dana Rohrabacher

So, look, I think everybody--and nobody in their--who is in their right mind is going to make--want there to be more danger environmentally.

It is bizarre for me to sit here and listen to people talk about financing in the millions of dollars--American tax dollars an environmental program on the mainland of China, which, of course, is the world's worst human rights abuser.

They have had lots of economic reform and they have--people say, 'Oh, no. They are having all this reform.' No. They are not having any reform as long as they maintain that the government has total control over the political process.

If we don't have good policy toward Japan and China and the Philippines, Vietnam, Korea, that region of the world, we will not prosper, nor will we be secure.

I think she is offering a great service by drawing our attention to the fact that there are so many people being held hostage and prisoner in this Ukrainian catastrophe.

If indeed you have a regime that is so brutal to their own people... there is no reason for us to believe their word...

I am beside myself when I hear this because we have spent so much time and so much effort in this...

We have refrained from helping those people--those many people in Iran who would struggle to rid themselves of the mullah regime's oppression.

Even if they do keep their word on the treaty they can easily obtain a nuclear weapon.

This is an act--this whole effort is an act of futility. We should be doing what worked with Ronald Reagan...

This focus, Mr. Chairman, on this treaty has done a great disservice to the people of the United States.

America's Human Spaceflight Program is worth continuing. Mars is the appropriate goal.

The hardworking men and women of NASA really does deserve better.

NASA's overall request is a good starting point for our deliberations, and I hope that Congress will at least equal that budgetary top line, if not exceed it.

I appreciate the President's commitment to NASA as expressed in his budget request, as well as his support for R&D overall.

The private sector has a lot to contribute and I would hope that we don't have our long-term projection into Mars as a government program doesn't cost us these extra billions of dollars.

We're draining money off for other projects like flying off to Mars in the long run and costing us almost a billion dollars because we haven't--you know, we're not doing things responsibly.

We are now dependent on the Russians to buy six seats per year from the Russians in order to maintain Space Station at a cost of $76 million per seat.

I have been one over the years promoting--rather than the trip to Mars I've been promoting, utilizing the commercial involvement in space in order to let us accomplish things that are accomplishable in space.

NASA needs to look beyond just the next four or five years and lay out the milestones it needs to pursue to get humans on Mars.

Congress needs to correct that.

That by my calculation is $900 million extra that we're spending for the Russians because the Commercial Crew formula has had to be pushed off for two years.

I think we have overreached and it will prevent us from accomplishing some very important goals that--we hear the arguments and I think they're legitimate arguments about having NASA being involved in global warming research and other…

The one thing that I've learned in my life is that people who try to do everything for everybody end up not being able to do anything for anybody.

The truth may well be what we have heard today in the testimony, that Russia is engaged in a major effort to basically support its own policies and promote changes and effects on other populations that further the interests of Russia.