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Let me define the problem and give you the background.

All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it's the only one we have.

I assure you NASA is and will be if, I am around, not only bipartisan, but nonpartisan, and it will continue that way.

One of the reasons you and I were able to accomplish so much on this committee is both of us worked very hard to keep politics out of NASA and to focus on the core mission of exploration.