Duncan Hunter: “I would argue that every container that comes into our ports certainly represents commerce, but they also represent…”

The 2013 National Space Transportation Policy calls for the use of U.S. rockets for U.S. government payloads, with some minor exceptions that perhaps should be revisited anyway.

But they also cut another $700 million past that, and that was mostly going toward shoreside infrastructure?

This is modern politics and modern media mixed in with law enforcement that has a political agenda. That's a new Department of Justice.

The U.S. currently has a competitive space launch industry, yet NASA payloads continue to fly on foreign launch vehicles.