"I've long been a champion of bolstering the science and technology capacity of Congress from both Members and staff."
"I've been a longtime advocate of the reinstatement of the OTA as a bipartisan, independent source of sound technical and scientific analysis."
"we have to do something somehow to figure out how to raise the level of staff salaries"
"if any of us ran for reelection with a platform of doubling staff salaries, I don't think we would last very long"
"We've now spent more in absolute dollars on the missile-defense program than we've spent in absolute dollars on the Apollo program."
"We have to be very careful that this is going to be politically viable because there are real risks that one party or the other will get very angry when it's pointed out that their dreams are not real..."
"I just want to thank the Chair and all the witnesses for their engagement in this."
"I've been working very hard with a number of my colleagues to try to get the OTA resurrected."
"I think we should at least scale our salaries with, say, the median income in the United States."
"Do you really think that it is a wise idea to cut the FSOC and OFR staff levels in half?"
"I believe that we need to give FSOC and the OFR the funding and personnel they need to carry out what I regard as their very important missions."
"I think it is short-sighted to cut back those essential functions."