Olympia Snowe

Thank you. Just a follow-up on that question.

Thank you. Can I just make one point?

It's been fabulous support from this committee for JPSS, and we are extremely pleased at the conference report.

Just to clarify the issue of the short-term and the long-term data gap, does it depend... on the question of funding only?

It served as a model in the development of innovative applications that makes data readily available to decisionmakers in real time for critical uses.

There should be no question it is now crucial in order to preserve the continuity of vital data for our long-range weather forecasting climate record.

I wanted to ask you, Dr. Neilley, so it's not our imagination that we're experiencing extreme weather events?

The outreach by NOAA to states and local communities could be extremely important.

One of the key components of the JPSS is the Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking sensor, SARSAT.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing on the state of our nation's environmental and weather observation infrastructure and satellite systems.

We are at the intersection of the previous satellite program, the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, or NPOESS, which operated from 1994 to 2010.

I’ve been a long supporter of the Integrated Ocean Observing System, introducing authorizing legislation in each of the last four Congresses.

Thank you. Ms. Glackin, I wish you well. On your three decades of service to this country, thank you.

What should be the underlying assumption for the budget, then?

As the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard, the concerns of Maine's fishermen are my concerns.

We commend recent actions led by the U.S. women Senators to support women's human rights in the Middle East and North Africa.

Now let's just have conversations and get this done. I just do not understand it, frankly.

Well, why can we not do it in tandem with other committees? Why does the President not work with Congress and get it done?

And if it is taxes and regulation, let's do it now.

You could make a fundamental change; the President could, if we work together as a team on the key issues.

We do not need to be growing our government. We need to be growing the private sector.

We need the 'now' part of it.

The President is calling for comprehensive tax reform, as you are obviously reiterating, in one breath and at the same time he is calling for tax increases.

The trial and error era has to be over now because we are in this new norm that we cannot accept.

If there is one message I can give to you is that current policies are not working and people are hurting.