I think Washington has been ignoring that we have a major--government has been through years and years of furloughs, and we can learn some lessons from them.
If it is terrorism-oriented, we will put money toward it. But we don't think of the financial world as also being part of our national secur...
Your investments in these science agencies is what allows that to happen.
So what we are basically asking for is a restoration of money to the system that has been cut.
I appreciate your leadership in protecting the ocean side of NOAA in this budget.
The only way it will have American innovation to go into is through federal investments in innovation.
America has the capital, the drive, and the creativity at a level that far surpasses any other nation in the world.
Reducing NOAA's coastal and ocean funding has dire economic consequences for our constituents.
We have let this nation down, this institution, and now, we are talking about disaster recovery.
Sequestration is only a decision, and it was a decision that Congress made. They didn't have to make it.
I wish we had ability to have reviews, revisions of the law, essentially is what you need...