It is our view that that is very important to add that to the Fiscal Year 2011 budget.

I hope that the President and the Congress will give the Administrator exactly what you said, the flexibility so that he could utilize that workforce in different places with different missions so as to minimize the economic devastation.

I think it is important that the White House and OMB hear what you just said.

Did your committee discuss an Atlas or a Delta on the EELVs?

So that would still get you out on things like asteroids or one of the Martian moons utilizing an EELV?

Yes, what staff is pointing out, it would be the best of all worlds.

the human spaceflight program is so large that when it has problems, it tends to cannibalize the science program.

Which, by the way, parenthetically, I assume will be a theme that will run throughout your report once it is produced publicly.

Of course, you remember that the President said in the campaign, he wanted to be on the Moon by 2020.

OK. The record will stay open for a couple of days.

This is an exceptionally important topic, and I think that buzzer might tell us that a vote is starting.