Barbara Mikulski actually said...

"I'm troubled that the budget does not invest adequately in future missions, the highest science priorities that are identified by the National Academies in their decadal surveys."

"we want NASA to be an economic engine, out-innovating, out-educating, and out-building what we need to do to keep America pre-eminent in space;"

"I am troubled that the budget does not invest adequately in future missions."

"This $17 billion-plus budget request is pretty much the same as what it was when President Clinton and Vice President Gore were in the White House."