John Carter actually said...

It is one of the great joys that I have had in Congress to get to help, serve on this committee to help the National Science Foundation.

The fact that we are still flying a rocket engine that has fundamentally been designed by Robert Goddard in the 1920s is just inexcusable.

We are entrusted with the task of allocating very scarce and precious, hard-earned tax dollars and it is vitally important, of course, that ...

We want to make sure that you have got the plutonium necessary for future missions.