Last year in the omnibus appropriations, a rider was placed that prevents NTIA from spending funds on the transition to an IANA contract before September 30 of this year, 2015.

I assume that one of your reasons would be you want to decentralize distributed authority structure so as to avoid single points of failure, manipulation or capture.

We have these state actors that are trying to do us in, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran.

We have been strong supporters of stress testing from the beginning.

What happens if that rider is continued?

I'm encouraged to see that NASA has made significant progress toward these goals.

Would the Senator believe that if the Department of Homeland Security is shut down that essential personnel will be required to work, but essential personnel--the following--will not be paid? For the first time people engaged in the…

Why did we refuse them to come to our space station? It doesn't make any sense to me.

I think if we don't, if we really do, or in between, we shouldn't do things differently at the Moon.

We are counting on you to be one of those means of transportation for crew to get us up there.

NASA's mission is vital for our national security and economic prosperity.

NASA's budget is way too low to do the things that we talked about doing here this afternoon.