Duncan Hunter: “If you had been President, how would you have prevented where we have come to find ourselves?”

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

Yes, it is just short of $5 billion a year.

But the catch-22 is that if the Coast Guard did some of these things, they would have more people to do other things.