Timothy Roemer: “I think that that is an important point to clarify, because personally I am for NASA and I am for the other $11 billion…”

“I think that that is an important point to clarify, because personally I am for NASA and I am for the other $11 billion that we spend every year. I would recommend to the viewers out there at 1 o'clock in the morning who are tuned into this TV station to pick up the August issue of the National Geographic and to see the wonderful pictures of what Pathfinder did for $267 million. Did it on budget, on time, with a third of the bureaucracy that NASA has done with other projects at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Did a wonderful job and excited the Nation. We had children all across the Nation glued to the TV, as I was glued to the TV in 1968 to watch Neal Armstrong take a step on the moon. These programs can work and we should support them. And I agree with the gentleman from Wisconsin, there are very good programs going on in NASA, but not the Space Station.”