07/23/2013
https://www.congress.gov...
"Sequestration, this meat cleaver that is hanging over the Federal budget at the end of the year, was never intended to take effect."
"Just like we did in Apollo, which was an incremental mission, starting with Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, in an environment that we did not know anything about."
"the value of competition is that instead of your rocket company being the only one in town, you get sharper, your prices get sharper if there is a competitor there."
"And so I, on behalf of the 406 scientists and all of the engineers, probably 1,000 people currently working on this project, want to thank you for the support."