Mike Simpson actually said...

"the biggest threat really is the deficit that we are facing."

"Several of us have been trying to figure out how we are going to fund these systems."

"We have got to find a different way to fund these systems, frankly, and I do not have the answer to it."

"We tried to make sure that NASA did not send over the Landsat Satellite without the money, which, unfortunately, the budget was proposing to do."