Duncan Hunter: “I would predict that this budget starts us on a road in which China by 2020 will be the dominant force in the Western…”

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.

I have a bill called the DRIVE-Safe Act. There is a companion bill in the Senate.

I think you have got some catching up to do.

But don't spend $18 billion that way. Spend it where it has the most effect, which is the U.S. Coast Guard.