James Rogan: “what I just wanted to share with my colleagues is that a visit to JPL is an incredible experience. When one goes there…”

“what I just wanted to share with my colleagues is that a visit to JPL is an incredible experience. When one goes there, one sees not only the incredible benefits they have made with respect to space exploration but what JPL has done for our national economy with the spin-off technology that has come out of there, from robotics surgery, to breast cancer research, data compression, laser technology, global communications, and the list goes on and on. To contract this out now would have a devastating effect not just on JPL but upon our technology, because we cannot contract out the cumulative knowledge and experience of these people, these incredibly dedicated men and women. So, once again, I want to urge the subcommittee Chairman, in his dealings with the other body, to do as the Chairman of the Committee on Rules has suggested. Let us keep this where the knowledge is founded, and in doing so we help not just our Nation but our economy, as well as continuing to get the incredible advancements we have had in space exploration.”