I really appreciate this hearing because it is a reminder that when I first joined this Committee when I came in 2008, and we began really looking seriously at the prospect of losing Shuttle capacity, these are many of the same questions that were raised about reliability, about our international partners, and about safety considerations and what we would do to try to make up for the fact that we didn't have our own Shuttle capacity.
Edwards reflects on the importance of addressing Shuttle capacity loss and safety concerns.
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I'm not confident in any of that. And especially in the polling, I mean, we've seen that it's been problematic in the past.
Well, I mean, I do think that for -- we’ve known for more than a decade that it’s past -- it was past time to get out of Afghanistan, and the question was just always going to be how and I agree with the President that this was never going…
I am still frightened for the fragility of our democracy, because the reason that it held -- and we found this out -- was because of people’s goodwill.
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