Duncan Hunter: “Because you are not really going to use it, you are just doing it.”

I would like to differentiate, too, between super high-tech stuff that is in its infancy stages and is nascent--and a floating surfboard that can sense if there is oil in the water that has been around for 5 years or longer.

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.

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