The President's alternative plan will actually cost us more money and delay our ability to get ourselves into space.

In 2009, we increased this funding by another $5 million.

I believe that has been reflected in the findings of the 'Gathering Storm' report, prepared several years ago under the leadership of Norm Augustine.

We said that is not good enough, and provided a $27.5 million increase above the President's extremely modest request of $15 million in 2010.

To abandon Ares I as a baseline vehicle for an alternative without demonstrated capability nor proven superiority, or even equivalence, is unwise and probably not cost-effective.

Well, whatever the venue is, we've got to get to the bottom of this.

If we could all get an agreement that the data is correct, then the fishermen are clearly willing to accept it, because they don't want to over fish the population, because that doesn't do anybody any good.

thank you for your public service and the good job that you're doing.

I've made a request to the Chairman and our Commerce Committee Chairman, Senator Rockefeller, that we have a hearing on this to try to bring some focus on the correct data.

Needless to say, our fishermen are quite concerned, and it's not just the commercial fishermen--they have now banded together with the charter boat captains and the recreational fishermen--on the closure of the fisheries, for example, on…

The Magnuson Act worked, on a fishery--particularly up in New England that was being over fished. And it brought back that stock.

It seems at cross-purposes that you cut your research dollars to determine the correct data in order to come up with a Catch Share.