What I would find very helpful is two things.
This is the last public hearing of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.
We spend a lot of our time keeping it focused and on line because it continually comes to us with underestimates.
We need to justify it to the taxpayer, and we need to show it in the scientific community.
It cost us $50 billion to build ISS.
I think there is growing frustration and skepticism about this.
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.
We feel that with the JWST, we are continuing to secure America's pre-eminence in astronomy and astrophysics.
I thank the subcommittee for supporting BVPA funding in the past and ask that the program be funded at or more than the ...
While I am a realist, I'm probably the world's greatest optimist, and I am confident that this Congress will avoid that.
First of all, this $17 billion-plus budget request is pretty much the same as what it was when President Clinton and Vic...