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

You and I in this committee have a different approach to what is happening to the earth's climate.

I would not want to see them get there first and then claim this is our territory in the South Pole, you stay out.

The President's Budget request for NASA is an investment in our Nation's future.

For NASA to continue to innovate, we need to attract the next generation of engineers, inventors, chemists, biologists, astronauts, and so much more.

Everything that we are doing is being approached in this commercial public/private partnership.

The X-59, which is this extraordinarily super designed needle-nosed aircraft is going to fly at the end of this year.

Yes, sir.

If we show up at the Shackleton Crater, I highly doubt the communist--Chinese Communist Party will care much about how we have advanced an equity action plan.

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.

There are, in fact, private companies that are getting into the business now of supersonic transports, but they do not have this characteristic.