But in order to implement ACA, you can't use the Appropriations Committee or the sequester to derail a policy that has now been passed into law.

I want to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. John Berry on his nomination to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Australia.

Keep your eye on those rockets and telescopes, and let's keep America flying.

We're concerned that if we have sequester, we could end up by being pennywise and pound foolish.

I think people don't quite yet grasp the significance of the sequester, because this is what the discrepancy is.

Please, let's get realistic estimates, so we know what we're really facing and what we should really be doing to maintain a balanced space program.

We're going to get to the end of the day with a fiscal quagmire unresolved, the space agency and other agencies--underestimating what it's going to take.

I believe that NASA has been constrained over several years now with staying roughly in this $17 to $18 billion range.

We believe that NASA is an economic engine, and we want to continue out-innovating the rest of the world.

This subcommittee is going to be where the action is when we get ready to mark up our bill.

We have to all think that we are all in this together. We are all Boston. We are all West, Texas.

I would like to compliment Senator Coats who, on a Sunday talk show, ... added an excellent dimension to it.

I want to work with you and Senator Coats and the Committee to make sure that the President comes in at $645 million for these grants.

The resources provided in this bill are so important and touch the lives of American everyday, especially in times of disaster.

The marathon bombings in Boston was terrible tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those killed and everyone injured.

We will be hopefully working on immigration reform.

A deal should be a deal.

We need a balanced approach to end sequester, including revenues, targeted cuts.

We want to thank you for the job that Homeland Security did do.

I want you to know, we intend to follow regular order.

Your priority was jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs.

There has been a breakdown in communication.

But the President wants you to do this job now and this job now is the Secretary of Labor, where while we are talking about reducing the public debt, we have another, enormous deficit, and that is called the jobs deficit.

Thank you both very much, thanks, Ben.

We can't have this, that we're going to shut down a whole office so they're more fit for duty.