"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 be very careful to ensure that those hard-earned tax doll..."
"We want to make sure that you have got the plutonium necessary for future missions."
"It is very important to us that they get it right."
"You are going to need that option for deep--"
"I think we are verging on the edge of that, in my opinion, right now."
"Sequester did not create ISIS, that depraved, barbaric force that grew as a result of our premature withdrawal from Iraq."
"In closing, Mr. Secretary, we must make certain that in meeting the demands of the fiscal austerity, we do not leave any question about our will and our ability to defend ourselves and our interests a..."
"BCA is the law of the land. And, therefore, if we exceed the caps, we are going to be talking about sequester, which I hate, everybody at Fort Hood hates, and everybody in my district hates."
"the sequester did not create the existing security climate that reflects indecision, hesitation, or some call it ambivalence in our defense in foreign policy."