What I would like is a report on your timetable.

Are there other emerging technologies that NIST should be working on with industry to develop interoperable standards?

If we are cutting out the R&D, you are starting to eat your seed corn so that you don't have a crop to plant for next year.

I just want to say this. We had talked earlier about the need for clean energy, therefore the reduction of our dependence particularly on foreign oil.

We are facing, in the House position, significant cuts.

By sustaining our investments in fundamental research, we can ensure that America remains at the forefront of scientific capability.

Well, we are just delighted that you are here.

Well, fine but I bring it---- to your attention, because it has been the conventional wisdom of what--and talked about in the press, what you just said and what we are told in practice is exactly the opposite.

I would love to get $18.7 billion for NASA.

My bottom line is I want a space program that is robust.

I for one would have been happy had we been able to do more across a wide range of government programs, but fiscal responsibility is a big part of the message that we are all working with at this juncture.