Donna Edwards: “It makes sense to continuously look for new ways in which we can improve our ability to carry out Earth observations.”

Well, I think the tone that the President struck is the right one, we should be honoring, especially today, the service members who lost their lives, and of course, the Afghan and other civilians who were taken in this attack.

I think it was quite a monumental task to get it through the House and negotiate it. And I also think there are a number of provisions that are in the House version that have already been kind of pre negotiated with the Senate.

I think one of the things that you see about this choice by the vice president, first of all, it demonstrates his confidence in who he is and the kind of campaign that he's running.

You just can’t have it both ways and that’s what Joe Manchin is trying to do.