12/09/2014
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"The President's Fiscal Year 2011 budget request is good for NASA because it sets the agency on a sustainable path that is tightly linked to our Nation's interests."
"The President also outlined an ambitious effort to foster the development of groundbreaking technologies; increase the number, scope, and pace of manned and unmanned space missions; make human spacefl..."
"There is a great deal that is riding on this hearing today because we are preparing the way for us then to start the markup in your subcommittee of the authorizing legislation."
"I asked that we receive a strong a vision statement, delivered by the President, defining Mars as the ultimate goal--we received one."