We know what the FBI does every day to keep American safe, and we appreciate it.

The transformation FBI has achieved over the past 10 years would not have been possible without your support.

I'm concerned that the Congress doesn't have a sense of urgency about cyber, but I'm also concerned that the Congress does not have a sense of urgency about the threat of sequester.

I think there is growing frustration and skepticism about this.

It cost us $50 billion to build ISS.

NASA is committed to making this national resource available to broader research communities.

Could we have that answer in more detail, in writing, so that everybody would have a chance to study it?

If anything gets screwed up, I can't pull a rabbit out of the hat. I don't have a rabbit, and I don't have a hat.

He has brought to the Justice Department the experience of a career prosecutor.

We spend a lot of our time keeping it focused and on line because it continually comes to us with underestimates.

I thank the subcommittee for supporting BVPA funding in the past and ask that the program be funded at or more than the level recommended in the President's fiscal year 2013 budget, or $24 million.

So we need that, but we need to look ahead also to what is the science today and what is the science of the future.

They need Byrne grants, they need Cops on the Beat, and so on.

How is the FBI keeping America safe?

We want our prisons to teach them how to be better citizens, and then to come back to a community support system.

I think anyone would say--and we have not taken a hard look at the results, what would be the result of a sequester, but we all know that it would be a significant cut to the NASA budget.

While I am a realist, I'm probably the world's greatest optimist, and I am confident that this Congress will avoid that.

How is the FBI keeping our families safe?

Before I recess the subcommittee, I want to conclude the hearing the way I began.

What I would find very helpful is two things.

There was much promised, and the launch pad, it was going to be a new day for Spaceport Wallops.

We feel that with the JWST, we are continuing to secure America's pre-eminence in astronomy and astrophysics.

I want to thank you for your respect of implementing the laws that the Congress passes, your respect for the Constitution and all of its amendments.

We are losing out on ourselves, aren't we?

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