Barbara Mikulski

But if we fund it at fiscal year 2015, this will mean competition of two providers?

If we can get the President's request funded at $848 million, based on having the $696 million that we have this year in 2014, we should be on target for an American capability in 2017.

So whatever we do, we know that there is always risk. We know that.

Thank you for fighting the good fight with commercial crew and trying to keep our funding as high as possible.

I am supporting the President in his sanctions. We have to take a strong stand, and we are proud of our NATO alliance.

We are all deeply troubled about what is going on in Ukraine, and the behavior of Russia and Mr. Putin's words and so on.

That was a bold decision on your part.

We really do strongly disagree on this.

I don't want to be beating a dead satellite here, but Earth science is $56 million below fiscal year 2014.

I don't want science to be a bank account for other projects that might or might not happen in the future.

So that is why we worked with Senator Murray and Senator Sessions to pass a budget that canceled sequester.

So when we saw this $186 million, it was deeply troubling.

I can't thank Senator Shelby enough for the way he helped move that omnibus.

I was deeply troubled to receive the President's budget. I was deeply troubled in the area of NASA because there was a reduction of $186 million from fiscal 2014.

Frankly, my colleagues and I do not agree with how NASA's proposed budget balances these cuts.

Let me start by saying that I am unhappy with NASA's budget.

Your goal was to send astronauts to the space station on U.S. rockets by 2017.

But we need viable ports. We want those imports and exports, and Japan is one of our great trading partners with Toyotas and motorcycles.

We will be having a full committee hearing on physical infrastructure, how we have to look across the committees on our physical infrastructure needs.

We will be holding a full committee hearing, all hands on deck, on innovation, particularly in terms of life science and others.

This subcommittee will now stand in recess to May 1st at 10 a.m., when we take the testimony of the NASA Administrator, Charles Bolden.

Well, I'm going to raise the fee issue. There are two important agencies that are crucial to innovation...

We need to look forward to doing that communication.

One priority is to create more jobs. The other is to retain the jobs we have, and even the possibility of bringing jobs back home from overseas.

We're all Senators and we need to trust each other.