Political Quotes

“I rise in strong support of scientific integrity at NASA and everywhere else in this Federal Government. Earlier this month, the Inspector General at NASA released a report regarding allegations that NASA suppressed climate change science and denied media access to a NASA scientist. As recent news reports have documented, this report came from the revelation in 2006 that an administration official had intervened in communications between climate change scientists and the press for political purposes. The report acknowledged that from the fall of 2004 through early 2006, the NASA Public Affairs Office managed the topic of climate science ``in a manner that reduced, marginalized, or mischaracterized climate change science made available to the general public through those particular media over which the Office of Public Affairs had control.'' The report also found that these actions were inconsistent with NASA's mandate and purpose to allow ``the widest practical and appropriate dissemination of information concerning NASA's activities and results.'' My amendment expresses the sense of Congress to reiterate the original intent of NASA's responsibilities. We are at a singular moment in time when climate change constitutes the challenge of our generation. Let us not fail. Let us base climate change information on science, not ideology. This amendment is about far more than climate change.…”