Duncan Hunter: “What we need is a real--what you look at, and what your prioritized Mission Needs Statement is in real life. That is…”

How can you possibly stay on track with that kind of a cut?

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

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

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.