02/11/2013
https://www.congress.gov...
"We cannot operate our science agencies on the cheap, and we should not operate them without clear, multi-year direction."
"It will prepare America to compete--and succeed--in the 21st century."
"This time, even on the first crew, the ones that are coming here to Capitol Hill today, our first international astronaut is Jeremy Hansen."
"One of the obvious examples is the ASAT test that was done by China a decade ago put tens of thousands of pieces right in that zone of altitude of where a lot of our spacecraft are."